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The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud**And those who are too fearful to do so | 
 enlarge | Author: Lawrence Solomon
Publisher: Richard Vigilante Books
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Pages: 240
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ISBN: 0980076315
Dewey Decimal Number: 509
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Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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Book Description
Is The "Scientific Consensus" on Global Warming a Myth? Yes, says internationally renowned environmentalist author Lawrence Solomon who highlights the brave scientists--all leaders in their fields-- who dispute the conventional wisdom of climate change alarmists (despite the threat to their careers) Al Gore and his media allies claim the only scientists who dispute the alarmist view on global warming are corrupt crackpots and "deniers", comparable to neo-Nazis who deny the Holocaust. Solomon calmly and methodically debunks Gore's outrageous charges, showing in on 'headline' case after another that the scientists who dispute Gore's doomsday scenarios have far more credibility than those who support Gore's theories. These men who expose Gore's claims as absurd hold top positions at the most prestigious scientific institutes in the world. Their work is cited and acclaimed throughout the scientific community. No wonder Gore and his allies want to pretend they don't exist. This is the one book that PROVES the science is NOT settled. The scientists profiled are too eminent and their research too devastating to allow simplistic views of global warming--like Al Gore's--to survive.
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 As seen on C-SPAN April 27, 2008
8 out of 16 found this review helpful
I just saw Solomon's presentation on C-SPAN. While he recognizes that global warming may pose a problem, he points out that there is not an absolute consensus. It's a shame that the Competitive Enterprise Institute sponsored his talk, as their positions are often dismissed as public relations efforts from the fossil fuel industry.
Solomon expressed a great deal of concern over the effects of some of the responses to global warming. He cited the "cap and trade" program which has led to the purchase of massive eucalyptus plantations which are forcing small farmers off their land and levelling forests of biodiversity. The film Refugees of the Blue Planet goes into the sad details of monoculture tree farms. Solomon is also deeply concerned about the resurgence of nuclear energy, which he sees as economically unsound; plus, there is the unresolved issue of what to do with the waste. Although, a segment of the series E2: Energy covers some of the advances in nuclear technology.
To his credit, Solomon suggests that we need to hear more from the poorer nations of the Global South as to how we should address these issues. Some poorer nations want to be able to rapidly develop their own fossil fuel economies, while others prefer that their gas and oil resources be exploited at a conservative pace, if at all. The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia
There is a great deal about the natural world that we don't understand. Hopefully, global warming won't cause a catastrophe, and it's comforting that some scientists are not concerned. It would be helpful to see more head-to-head debates between the deniers and the "alarmists." In addition to his C-SPAN appearance, I've heard Solomon on a few right-wing talk shows and would like to see him challenged by people like Ross Gelbspan, author of Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster. Gelbspan regularly confronts the deniers, and he has some powerful counter-arguments, and reveals the investment in perception management campaigns by Exxon and others to protect their markets and profits. Everything's Cool
Lastly, as with terrorism, we don't know if or when climate change may bring disaster, but it would be prudent to take precautions. Developing renewable energy that emits fewer greenhouse gasses and doesn't involve the impacts of mining coal Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future and oil drilling can be seen as a "pre-emptive" strike against a potential threat. The booming field of Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution not only provides a less degraded environment, but also enhances the profits that all sorts of businesses are already realizing.
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage
A couple other resources on the economic, technological and social transformations already taking place:
Sustainable Industries
Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Season 1 (2pc)
 questions the established consensus.....thats what science does best April 21, 2008
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
The Gore-ists understand consensus is a defacto establishment of reality. It matters not if the tenants of the Global Warming religion are true, the societal clergy has established it as 'the truth'.
This book is important because it attempts what true science does....It ponders reality beyond the established consensus and at least attempts to open minds to the possiblility that a different consensus is possible.
Al Gore is not a man of science by any measurement but certainly is a man trained in the power of consensus. He is, de facto, the Pope of this reality. Science is always the product of a few challenging the Pope until a consensus becomes 'reality'. Then, of course, someone else will challenge the new reality...etc, etc, etc.
 These Scientists are for real April 8, 2008
15 out of 19 found this review helpful
DISCLOSURE: I have not read this book yet but am giving it 5 stars for the reason mentioned below.
Before I bought the book, I wanted to find out "who" these scientists were.
I did a google search on those mentioned in the publisher's note and was suitably impressed. I found a wealth of high quality information regarding each one of them. In particular I liked Dr. Edward Wegman's report to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on the statistical methods used to arrive at the "Global Warming" conclusion.
These guys are the real deal folks. I am buying this book as of today.
BTW: How do we overcome the media machine that continually hypes the "Global Warming Crisis?" This book is all well and good, but its target audience is those that are already skeptical of or actively against the GW hypothesis. This information has to somehow reach the average Joe who has drawn an opinion about GW without researching the facts.
Suggestions anyone?
Winning the Debate April 7, 2008
40 out of 43 found this review helpful
Richard Vigilante has launched an eponymous publishing company--Richard Vigilante Books--that takes advantage of all the new Amazonian efficiencies to produce great books in days rather than years.
His first book, replete with statistics and material as recent as February 2008, ends the global warming debate before Al Gore can even start his new $300M climate change panic campaign.
Entitled The Deniers and already a #3 Amazon best seller in Canada and leaping listwise in the US, it tells the story of "The World Renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud"
Gore recently declared, as I recall his words, that scientists opposing his theory are the kind of people who party together with the flat earth society, with holocaust deniers, and with cultists who claim that the Apollo moon landing was concocted on a back lot in Burbank.
But it turns out that these denier folk comprise most of the world's leading climate scientists, physicists, and statisticians, including hundreds of participants in the IPCC reports that Gore cites as an impregnable consensus. Among the scores of deniers interviewed and analyzed in the book are Freeman Dyson, the world's most eminent living physicist, Hendrik Tennekes, director of research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute who asserts that the global warmers cannot tell the difference between "clouds and clocks," David Bromwich, president of the International Commission on Polar Meteorology who can find no global warming signal "from the mainland of Antarctica right now," and Reid Bryson, "father of scientific climatology," the world's most cited climatologist and a sainted environmentalist, who responds to a question about Gore's movie: "Don't make me throw up."
Covering the range of global warming claims, from the famed "hockey stick graph" to a predicted rise of mosquito borne diseases, the book is fascinating and even profound on the flaws of computer modelling, the irrelevance of consensus to science, the crippling effects of excessive specialization, and the mounting evidence of a coming cooling trend.
Its author is Canadian environmentalist Lawrence Solomon, who ends with a cogent explanation of how carbon taxes and offsets devastate the environment.
George Gilder
Review of Deniers April 6, 2008
38 out of 39 found this review helpful
The author, Lawrence Solomon, comes from an "environmentalist" background having worked as an activist against nuclear power expansion and world rain forest protection, and as a journalist or the National Post of Toronto. This book stems from a series of newspaper articles on individual scientists that disagreed in some way with the "conventional wisdom" or "political correctness" of Global Warming, specifically, man's role in Global Warming. It is evident at the conclusion of the book that Mr. Solomon has considerable respect for the 30+ scientists which he has interviewed for the book. There is little question that in Mr. Solomon's words the question of man's role in Global Warming is not settled science.
This is really a remarkable book. The reader is able to take advantage of an author that has been able to converse with a cross section of some of the most outstanding scientists, an author who is obviously devoted to environmental ethics, and an author that can write with the clarity of a experienced journalist. Reading this book is a real education. The scientific questions broached touch on multiple topics in science, ranging from glaciers to malaria, from Antarctic to hurricanes, from low clouds to the Sun and the way the Sun and the planetary system impacts cosmic radiation, from geologic history to the way science is done, and finally to a plethora of scientific approaches to understanding the physics, chemistry, geochemical distribution and history of carbon dioxide in the earth, oceans, atmosphere.
What is important here? Public policy will be formulated on the results of science. One of Solomon's major concerns is that poor public policy stemming from poor science or misinterpreted science will have a negative impact on the world's poor. In addition to the science itself Mr. Solomon is very concerned with the way the results of science are received and acted upon in our political world.
Mr. Solomon treats each scientist with respect, giving each a mini resume. His order of treatment makes pedagogic sense and thematic sense. A real challenge of the book is to cover the scope of the science in a responsible and understandable way. In my opinion he does that admirably and concisely way.
He begins with a discussion of the word, Deniers, explaining its derogatory usage. meaning and emphasizes that most of these scientists do not consider themselves deniers. My sense is that both Solomon and the scientists discussed would have preferred the word Skeptics to Deniers. The word Deniers does set up the context of the book into the tension and edginess, that present circumstances deserve. The first scientist depicted is Edward Wegman, who along with a group of select scientists was asked by Congress to critique the famous hockey stick graph. Selected important graphs and data displays are used in the text with comparisons and unusually complete captions. Each chapter contains references and highlights available articles and their web locations or urls.
After you finish this book you will have a better understanding of how the temperature of the earth is measured and how the temperature history of the earth is approximated. An understanding of the cycle, sources and sinks of carbon dioxide is crucial and selected scientists that have give their life work to study of carbon dioxide in ice, in the ocean, in the earth, in the atmosphere, and in the earths history are reviewed. Does carbon dioxide drive temperature or does temperature drive carbon dioxide? This is the all important question to answer, and must be answered before we attempt to use policy to "correct" global warming. Is the earth really warming or is it beginning to cool?
This is not an easy book to read. Frankly the scope of the science covered in the book is staggering. I will definitely re-read portions if not all of the book. But, because of the clarity of Solomon's language and the importance of the content he has amassed, I will. As scientist, myself, I am very impressed with what Mr. Solomon has done here. Even though this book's mission is to elucidate the view point of the skeptics, I believe this synthesis will help scientists and the public on both sides of the issue.
The book challenges, at the core, the case for man's impact on global warming as a consequence carbon dioxide emissions. Questions are raised as to whether the earth is actually warming. It is pointed out that the temperature record stations are un-representative of the earth's surface with the ocean being under-represented, and that measurements considered to be most representative (satellite-mounted microwave sounding units -- MSU) have not shown a record of warming since initiated in 1979.
There are critical comments about the management and agenda of the IPCC. The IPCC is self described as: "... a scientific inter governmental body set up by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)" from the IPCC web site. In this book the IPCC stands accused of changing and dictating the conclusions of the scientists doing the work in their own organization.
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