The Satanic Gases
eBook - ePub

The Satanic Gases

Clearing the Air About Global Warming

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Satanic Gases

Clearing the Air About Global Warming

About this book

Global warming is vastly overrated as an environmental threat, argue leading climatologists Patrick J. Michaels and Robert Balling, Jr. Former Vice President Gore staked much of his career on a largely mythical problem, they write. Unlike every other book on global warming, The Satanic Gases places the issue in its proper social and scientific context. Citing the pioneering work of historian of science Thomas Kuhn and economist James Buchanan, Michaels and Balling demonstrate that it was inevitable that global warming would be distorted by the political sphere and that most scientists would either stand mute or actually assist in that process. But, the authors argue, such distortions in science are always temporary, and inevitably the scientific community will concede that earlier forecasts dramatically exaggerated the threat of global warming.

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Table of contents

  1. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  2. PREFACE
  3. OVERVIEW
  4. 1. The Shared Vision of Hell
  5. 2. Global Warming Goes Global
  6. 3. The Earth's Climate
  7. 4. Modeling the Earth's Climate
  8. 5. Has the Earth Warmed?
  9. 6. The Sulfate-Greenhouse Paradigm vs. the Reality of Climate Change
  10. 7. Greenhouse Projections of Circulation-Scale Changes vs. Reality
  11. 8. An Ocean of Data: Sea-Level Rise and El Niño
  12. 9. Global Warming and Mortality
  13. 10. Greening the Planet
  14. 11. How Did We Get Here?
  15. 12. Treaties, Programs, and Protocols
  16. 13. The Future
  17. REFERENCES
  18. About the Authors