| 
 enlarge | Authors: S. Fred Singer, Dennis T. Avery
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
Buy New: $4.47
You Save: $15.48 (78%)
New (41) Collectible (1) from $4.47
Avg. Customer Rating:  170 reviews
Sales Rank: 4179
Media: Paperback
Edition: Upd Exp
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 264
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0742551245
Dewey Decimal Number: 551.6
EAN: 9780742551244
ASIN: 0742551245
Publication Date: January 25, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Crisp clean and unread. No marks. Compare seller ratings. We offer excellent customer service.
|
| Customer Reviews:
 To solve 80% of global warming, the world needs to go veg! July 29, 2008
0 out of 10 found this review helpful
The releasing of methane gas from the perma-frost, lakes, and ocean can happen within the next couple of yrs due to the rapid warming of the ocean. Check this out for more detail.
youtube. com/user/StopClimateCrisis
 The anti-Al, clear logical and based on facts July 15, 2008
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
In this book, Avery and Singer argue that Al Gore's theory that the Earth is headed for catastrophic climate change due to increased CO2 production is a lot of hot air. They argue that the relatively mild global warming which we have experienced thus far is due to a long-established 1,500 cycle, in which the Earth naturally heats up and cools down, with no assistance from us.
I do not know if Avery and Singer are correct. I am not an expert in this field, and I have not yet read any of the serious guys on the other side. The only book on the other side which I have read is Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.
Singer and Avery wipe the floor with Al. Al's book is dreadful. It is filled with emotion and moralism. It has very little text, but lots of pictures. It has no footnotes. From any serious scientific perspective, Al's book is a joke. Al's theory may be correct, but Al's book is a rock video between book covers, not a scientific argument.
Singer and Avery's book is everything that Al's book is not. It is tightly argued. It is packed with facts. Everything in it is footnoted, and the footnotes largely take you to peer-reviewed scientific articles. You can agree or disagree with the book, but you have to take it seriously as science.
I am going to read more on the subject. My feeling, thus far, is that unless someone on Al's side makes a really serious effort to refute Singer and Avery, the contest goes to the global warming skeptics, more or less by default. Gore is an emotional non-scientist. These guys are professionals, and they take Al apart, bit by bit.
 Consider the source of this junk science July 9, 2008
15 out of 45 found this review helpful
I'm an alum of the University of Virginia (home of Prof. Fred Singer) and I'm ashamed to say that this man is a conservative whose "distinguished" career includes arguing against the link between CFCs and the ozone hole, the link between second hand smoke and cancer, and now the link between CO2 and global warming.
In 1960 he argued that Phobos was an artificial moon because it was hollow (of course not true, and Phobos is not hollow).
He's published no peer reviewed papers on climate change and is merely representing the oil industry with his bogus science.
Wake up people--don't believe bogus science funded by the oil industry. Believe the thousands of climatologists who have studied this problem and contributed to the IPCC report.
A 2007 Newsweek cover story on climate change denial reported that: "In April 1998 a dozen people from the denial machine -- including the Marshall Institute, Fred Singer's group and Exxon -- met at the American Petroleum Institute's Washington headquarters. They proposed a $5 million campaign, according to a leaked eight-page memo, to convince the public that the science of global warming is riddled with controversy and uncertainty." The plan was reportedly aimed at "raising questions about and undercutting the 'prevailing scientific wisdom'" on climate change. According to Newsweek, the plan was leaked to the press and therefore was never implemented.
Exhaustively Detailed & Clear June 25, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The Solar Fraud: Why Solar Energy Won't Run the World, Second EditionA Primer on CO2 and Climate, 2nd Edition
Asking good questions often results in good answers. The authors, without pre-conceived answers, review the history of Earth's climate, challenge the modes of predicting future climates, attack the claims of immanent disasters, and then examine responses.
This Book Exceeded My Expectations June 16, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Well written, well organized, very readable and full of truth! Everyone should read this book before deciding whether they want to get on Al Gore's Global Warming Alarmist Bandwagon, or take a view that is more educated, rational, and thought-out. I would like to see this book presented in classrooms alongside showings of "An Inconvenient Truth" (or other Alarmist-type films/programs) so that students are given the opportunity to see both sides and develop their own fully-educated opinions, rather than having fear-inducing, liberalist environmental/ political ideas shoved down their throats as if it is fact.
One thing missing from this book was attention to the polar bear plight that we so often hear of. I would have liked to have known what the authors had to say about that, as well as what they think the long-term climatic impact is of massive deforestation in a short period of time, such as is occurring in the Amazon rainforest.
|
|
|
