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The deniers are winning the war of words
Climate-skeptic books abound on Amazon's top sellers list |
Joseph Romm |
26 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| An Inconvenient Truth is so last year! Al Gore's book may have been No. 1 in 2006, but the global warming deniers and delayers are outselling everyone this year. Of course, Bjørn Lomborg's collection of cherry-picked misinformation, Cool It is the top-selling book in four categories: Climatology, Climate Changes, Public Policy, and even Conservation. But who knew that the top book in both Meteorology and Weather was the Competitive Enterprise Institute's The P ... |
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| Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics) |
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Debunking Bjorn Lomborg: Part II
Lomborg misrepresents possible sea-level rise |
Joseph Romm |
15 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Lomborg is a champion cherry-picker when he isn't just getting his facts wrong, as I argued in Part I. He has a deceptively misleading -- and outright erroneous -- discussion of sea-level-rise projections in Cool It. Let's start with a few all-too-typical howlers: Antarctica is generally soaking up more water than Greenland is shedding, as the IPCC predicts. The IPCC estimates that the very worst additional increase to be expected from Greenland could be 8 inc ... |
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| Topics: books, climate, climate science (all these topics) |
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Eye on the storm
Thoughts on Chris Mooney's Storm World |
Andrew Dessler |
31 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I recently finished Chris Mooney's great new book Storm World. There have been lots of reviews (see Chris's blog for a pretty complete list), so I won't write another one here. Instead, I thought I would highlight the part I particularly appreciated, and what I think needed more emphasis in the book. First, the high point: The book does a great job of detailing the turbulent interface between knowledge and ignorance where science operates. Science is a contact sport, ... |
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Storm World: Understanding hurricanes today
New book on hurricanes and global warming |
Kit Stolz |
16 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| On his site, science writer Chris Mooney recently posted a fascinating pair of graphs, courtesy of collaborator Matt Nisbet, which chart public interest in global warming. As the years march by, the charts show what happens when scientific reports are released, when politics intervene -- and when hurricanes strike, as measured by coverage at the Washington Post and the New York Times. What the graphs show is that in these thoughtful newspapers, political and sci ... |
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| Topics: books, climate, climate science, severe weather (all these topics) |
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Hostile Climate
On Bjorn Lomborg and climate change |
Stephen H. Schneider |
12 Dec 2001 |
Arts and Minds |
| Bjorn Lomborg's chapter on global climate change is a clever polemic; it seems like a sober and well-researched presentation of balanced information, whereas in fact it makes use of selective inattention to inconvenient literature and overemphasis of work that supports his lopsided views. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports and other honest assessments don't have the luxury of using such tac ... |
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| Topics: books, climate, climate change impacts, climate science (all these topics) |
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