Review by Choice Review
This book's foreword clearly expresses doubts about the scientific consensus surrounding climate change. Editor Michaels quickly sets the ball in play in the first chapter by recounting errors, omissions, and generally misleading conclusions propagated by organizations such as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). With relationships to the George C. Marshall and the CATO institutes, the expected scope of this book is met in a detailed and convincing manner. Eleven essayists skillfully contradict and disassemble many false assumptions within the science of global warming as well as methodology used to warn world governments of catastrophic futures. Contributor John Christy reveals the political hazards implicit in spending three years as a lead author of the IPCC 2001 chapter "Observed Climate Variability," discussing omission of temperature changes in upper-air masses, failure to include increasing southern hemisphere sea-ice formation, and the threefold uncertainty inherent in the next century's model of global warming. The many disparities between predictions and measured impacts are expertly portrayed and only the future will determine if the case has been stacked. Evidence can be weighed but the science of global warming studies will ultimately reveal trends and final disposition of this controversy. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through professionals; two-year technical program students. R. M. Ferguson Eastern Connecticut State University
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Review by Choice Review
