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 enlarge | Author: Lawrence Solomon
Publisher: Richard Vigilante Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 4287
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.2 x 1
ISBN: 0980076315
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.73874
EAN: 9780980076318
ASIN: 0980076315
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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 It's all Gore..... May 27, 2008
8 out of 120 found this review helpful
talk about a bubble.....
well compared to the substance of this work, a bubble looks pretty heavy.
especially heart rendering is the terrible pressure on denialists to stay silent, lest their careers be damaged.
the fact that postulation by scientists commenting outside their expertise has never been popular or respected, seems to not to justly apply when it comes to AGW.
in the author's view, the true "concensus" is skeptical of AGW.
if specious cherry picking is to your taste, you will love this work.
 A Very Important Read May 26, 2008
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Anyone who is remotely interested in having an informed opinion about Man-made Global Warming needs to read this book. Written by a journalist with strong credentials as an outspoken Environmental Activist, one might expect the book to be a scathing review of the lack of credibility of those who disagree that Man-Made Global Warming is the most significant environmental issue currently facing us. What one instead finds is a compedium of emminent scientists who, within their area of expertise, demolish one major piece of the Man-Made Global Warming case after another. I cannot imagine a true seeker of truth being firmly convinced of the validity of the case for Man-Made Global Warming after reading this book. Actually, in my case, I became incensed with the blatent misuse of statistics and scientific method evidenced by the Man-Made Global Warming adherents.
Science, Not Hysteria May 25, 2008
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
A fact based look at global warming, not a repeat of the political mantra of the day.
Its about time, thank-you! May 22, 2008
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
So glad to have seen author on Book-tv. Ordered the book right away and just finished it. I love it and am so happy that I've read it and I wish I could afford to buy a copy for everybody I know. I think I'll buy a copy to give to my daughter's Science/homeroom teacher to read over the summer. When I saw Al Gore's "Documentary" , I couldn't believe it! I am a "layman" but his graphs were so obviously biased and him riding up in that whatchamacallit to the top of the graph, and his intermingling his whispering voice between global warming 'points' about how he lost the election, etc., really disgusted me. Then he wins the Nobel for his 'work'. Oh golly. Anyway, buy this book and read it, you'll love it and you'll be smarter when done. An easy read.
The Deniers: Balancing the Scales May 22, 2008
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Lawrence Solomon is one of Canada's leading environmental activists, for my money a solid base to stand and question global warming alarmism. Not that Solomon argues a coherent case for rejecting global warming. Far from it.
Solomon recounts, often in their own words, the testimony of 30 or so eminent scientists who say, in effect: in the field I know best, there is no cause for alarm. This approach allows Solomon to set out the main issues in plain terms while avoiding arguments about obscure points that only a PhD in the field would appreciate.
Does he conclude there is no global warming or that mankind is not responsible? Nope. He tells us he doesn't know for sure, but he is confident there are many scientifically valid viewpoints. He stresses that science is not the product of consensus and that we will just have to wait a while before we decide to spend trillions of dollars trying to stop what may not need to be stopped or what might be impossible to stop because it is driven by natural forces.
I recommend this book as an antidote to Al Gore's one-sided tract.
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