Global warming scaremongers
I just got finished reading what should be the go-to source for anthropogenic global warming skeptics. "Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1,500 Years," by S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery answers just about every canard tossed out there by Al Gore and his global warming grant-money-seeking cadre.
The heavily footnoted book makes the case that the current warming trend is part of an approximately 1,500 year cycle that is little affected by greenhouse gases spouted out by SUVs and more affected by bigger things -- like the Sun.
We have a large faction of intensely interested persons who say the warming is man-made, and dangerous. they say it is driven by releases of greenhouse gases such as CO2 from power plants and autos, and methane from rice paddies and cattle herds. the activists tell us that modern society will destroy the planet; that unless we radically change human energy production and consumption, the globe will become too warm for farming and the survival of wild species. They warn that the polar ice caps could melt, raising sea levels and flooding many of the world's most important cities and farming regions.
However, they don't have much evidence to support their position -- only (1) the fact that the Earth is warming, (2) a theory that doesn't explain the warming of the past 150 years very well, and (3) some unverified computer models. Moreover, their credibility is seriously weakend by the fact that many of them have long believed modern technology shoudl be discarded whether the Earth is warming too fast or not at all.
Many scientists -- though by no means all -- agree that increased CO2 emissions could be dangerous. However, polls of climate-qualified sceientist [sic] show that many doubt the scary predictions of the global computer models. This book cites the work of many hundreds of researchers, authors, and coauthors whose work testifies to the 1,500-year cycle. There is no "scientific consensus," as global warming advocates often claim. Nor is consensus important to science. Galileo may have been the only man of his day who believed the Earth revolved around the sun, but he was right!
Other highlights of the book expose the tendency by certain alarmists to characterize the movement of species from one place to another as "extinction." According to this dishonest construction, if you were to move from San Diego to Phoenix, then you'd be "extinct" in San Diego.
The book also goes to pains to point out that the amount of global warming that we can expect over the next decades is probably going to do far more good than harm. Alarmists always whine about the number of people who would die from a hotter Earth, but ignore the fact that far more people die from cold than die from heat -- even in worst case scenarios.
If you're serious about knowing about the science and not the scares, this is a great book to pick up.
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