Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor | 
 enlarge | Author: Roy Spencer
Publisher: Encounter Books
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Pages: 184
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ISBN: 1594032106
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.73874
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Publication Date: March 27, 2008
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If you listen to the media, you would think that man-made environmental catastrophe was about to engulf the world and imperil civilization. From Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to nightly jeremiads about CO2 emissions and carbon footprints, we are bombarded around the clock with alarmist reports that disasterous global warming is on the rise and that it's our fault. In Climate Confusion, noted climatologist Roy Spencer shows that fears about global warming are vastly exaggerated and are driven by politics, not truth. He shows that a global superstorm has already arrived-but it is a storm of hype and hysteria. Climate Confusion is a ground-breaking book that combines impeccable scientific authority with great wit and literary panache to expose the hysteria surrounding the myths of global warming and climate change. Spencer shows that the earth is far more resilient than exopessimists pretend and that increasing wealth and technology ingenuity, far from being the enemies of the environment, are the only means we possess to solve environmental problems as they arise.
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 Excellent Primer on Climate, Weather, and Warming August 19, 2008
Dr. Spencer lays out his objectives for the book in the introduction which primarily is to provide climate information to climate lay people (which is most everyone on the planet).
I found this book to be very informative regarding the atmosphere, basic weather (energy, wind, currents, temperature, etc.), theories of global warming, government policy creation, and overall just how much is unknown about warming, weather, and climate change.
He also provides information on his experience working for the government and his experience with environmentalists (including Al Gore) and alarmists.
As a bonus Dr. Spencer has a chapter on basic economics (related to policy creation) that should be required reading for all.
I would recommend this book.
 Is Global Warming discussion bad for your health? August 14, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The global warming fight is bad for your health because it shifts the policy focus to global warming, to so called "greenhouse gases" and away from toxic pollution, such as SO2, NO and particulate matter. No one is claiming these are not bad for your health and were particularly bad in Southern California and London before they enacted sensible regulations to curb it.
Lets shift to using fuel cells in cars and for electric power not to reduce greenhouse gases but to reduce or eliminate toxic pollution. Lets not throw out the baby with the bathwater, i.e. the battle against toxic pollution because of the likely spurious concern with "greenhouse gases".
Climate Confusion? August 13, 2008
Don't be put off by the title, this is an interesting and thought provoking book written by an open, sceptical but trained scientific mind. The author's acceptance of the differences of opinion in the scientific community regarding the degree of human attribution to the perceived threat of global warming/climate change precludes him from giving the reader direct answers to the fundamental questions, but rather he provides them with much of the material to get the answers, or make valued judgements for themselves. This is done with humour and is intellectually insightful, but without presumption of any kind I would say. All in all, a thoroughly good read and one that successfully pricks the bubble of the many preposterous predictions we see promulgated by the media on the subject, but, somewhat worryingly, not challenged by the many informed individuals who know better but prefer to remain silent. Recommended without reservation.
Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the August 10, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a well written, well researched, rational answer to the radical global warming enthusiasts who have for the most part avoided addressing the complexity of climate control and feedback systems that make it very difficult to predict the weather 10 days from now let alone in 50 or 100 years. A must read for science teachers and especially policy makers.
 A major dissappointment if you are looking for objective information August 4, 2008
7 out of 14 found this review helpful
I bought this book looking for an accurate, scientifically based review of global warming from someone who is not in favor of it. As an MD, MS (Physical Chemistry), PhD (Biochemistry), and former University Professor who has relied on the National Institutes of Health for funding, I have the ability to understand the science, and am not ignorant of what he speaks. First of all, there is almost no data in the book, only opinions. Secondly, it clearly has a political agenda much more than a scientific agenda. It diverges into Intelligent Design, Control of the world by the UN, etc., and paints a frequently inaccurate picture. By no means does he stick to Climatology. While he does have some valid points worth thinking about, you basically have to be an expert to figure out which ones these are. He mocks the scientific system, and while some of his points are true, his approach is a little like mocking the US Postal Service because it is not perfect. However, the great majority of your mail gets to you everyday with relatively few errors. He makes it sound like the US scientific system should be dismantled. Remember as well, that this is not just the American system working on this problem.
There are some issues in science that take a while to work out. For instance, one of the classics was the battle between Edward Teller and Robert Oppenheimer shortly after WWII regarding whether the "H-Bomb" was theoretically possible. In this case, you had probably ten of the smartest people on the planet who couldn't agree for years, although in the end, the scientific process came through, and obviously, the "H-bomb" was possible. I would hate to have had to take sides on that one half way through.
The scientific process is at work on global warming, and while I don't think the answer is clear, the great bulk of the evidence supports, rather than denies, the truth of global warming.
What I was hoping for with this book was an objective treatment of the topic by someone with expertise in the area.
What I think has happened here is that Dr. Spencer has used his position and titles as a springboard for his political views, not his scientific expertise. Unfortunately, for the lay person, this probably looks like a good book, but only if you believe all of his statements because of his titles. Unfortunately, Global Warming is so complex that unless you have a deep scientific background, you really cannot analyze it yourself, but must rely on the opinions of others. Even those of us with the background to understand the science can read about it for days and still not come to a conclusion. I wouldn't place too much weight on this book at the present time. Are there "low quality" books that are "Pro-Global Warming"? Absolutely. There is definitely some "silly science" supporting global warming. They just prove the point that when politics get involved in science, it's usually bad for the science. Therefore I will continue my search for books against global warming that actually are based on science. Not enough room to cover all the details here, but this was a major dissappointment, and I hope that not too many people will use it to define their thinking regarding global warming.
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