Lukewarming
eBook - ePub

Lukewarming

The New Climate Science that Changes Everything

  1. 250 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Lukewarming

The New Climate Science that Changes Everything

About this book

In Lukewarming, two environmental scientists explain the science and spin behind the headlines and come to a provocative conclusion: climate change is real, and partially man-made, but it is becoming obvious that far more warming has been forecast than will occur, with some of the catastrophic impacts implausible or impossible. Global warming is more lukewarm than hot. This fresh analysis is an invaluable source for those looking to be more informed about global warming and the data behind it.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. A Little History
  7. 2. The Lukewarm World
  8. 3. Autumn in Paris
  9. 4. Getting Real about the Greenhouse Effect
  10. 5. Human Nature and Forecasting Models
  11. 6. Grand Narratives, Availability Cascades, and Granfalloons
  12. 7. In the Availability Cascade, What Is Not Real Is Real
  13. 8. The Availability Cascade Runs Amok
  14. 9. Paris, December 1, 2015
  15. 10. California Cascade
  16. 11. Outside the Cascade: Reality Bites
  17. 12. Breaking Up with Your Forecast Is Hard to Do
  18. 13. Is the Pause Just an Artifact of Bad Data?
  19. 14. Testing the Climate Models
  20. 15. Paris, December 4, 2015
  21. 16. If You Explain Everything, You Explain Nothing
  22. 17. Popper vs. Knobs on the Climate Machine: Lukewarmers Choose Popper
  23. 18. Does This Tail Make Me Look Fat?
  24. 19. Some More Insensitivity about Global Warming
  25. 20. The Sociology of Climate Alarmism
  26. 21a. The First National Climate Assessment: Willful Violation of Normative Science
  27. 21b. The Second National Climate Assessment: Where’s the Rest of the Science?
  28. 21c. The Third National Climate Assessment: “A Key Deliverable of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan”
  29. 22. Paris: December 10, 2015
  30. 23. U.S. Temperature Assessments: Cherries for the Picking
  31. 24. Alternative Reality: The Lukewarmer’s Greener World
  32. 25. Back to the Genetic Garden of Eden?
  33. 26. Rational Optimism in the Lukewarm World
  34. 27. Food to Burn
  35. 28. Is Global Warming Making Us Ill?
  36. 29. The Sexiest Storms on Earth
  37. 30. How the U.S. Global Change Research Program Sees Hurricanes
  38. 31. Typhoon Haiyan: "Man Has Slapped Nature in the Face"
  39. 32. Are Floods Increasing?
  40. 33. Tornado Warning!
  41. 34. Quiz Time: Damages from Extreme Weather
  42. 35. Polar Ice Extent: A Tale of Two Hemispheres
  43. 36. Death of the Polar Bear?
  44. 37. The End of the Apocalypse
  45. 38. Human Nature
  46. 39. Climate MAGICC
  47. 40. Damn the MAGICC, Full Speed Ahead
  48. 41. Paris, December 12, 2015
  49. 42. Paris’s Last Tango?
  50. Appendix: Notes on the MAGICC Model
  51. Notes