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'[Booker] digs, he makes the calls, he reads the small print, he takes up the cause of the little man and campaigns, he speaks truth to power without fear or favour ... I'd rate [Booker] among the greatest [journalists] of the age ... [The Real Global Warming Disaster] is another of those classics which any vaguely intelligent person who wants to know what's really going on needs to read.' -- James Delingpole, The Spectator
'I, and anyone seriously interested in this subject, owes a great debt to Christopher Booker, who has set down all the arguments for doubt in a single, concise book ... I think anyone remotely concerned about this huge controversy should read this courageous piece of work.' -- Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday
'Meticulously researched, provocative and challenging ... Buy this book and read it carefully. It needs your attention. Read it, because it will make you stop and think and wonder and question where our politicians are leading us.'
-- Irish Times
'I, and anyone seriously interested in this subject, owes a great debt to Christopher Booker, who has set down all the arguments for doubt in a single, concise book ... I think anyone remotely concerned about this huge controversy should read this courageous piece of work.' -- Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday
'Meticulously researched, provocative and challenging ... Buy this book and read it carefully. It needs your attention. Read it, because it will make you stop and think and wonder and question where our politicians are leading us.'
-- Irish Times
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This original book considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe from runaway global warming, and how today this has persuaded politicians to land us with what promises to be the biggest bill in history. Christopher Booker interweaves the science of global warming with that of its growing political consequences, showing how just when the politicians are threatening to change our Western way of life beyond recognition, the scientific evidence behind the global warming theory is being challenged like never before. The book exposes the myth that the global warming theory is supported by a consensus of the world s top climate scientists'. It shows how the UN s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is run by a small group of global warming zealots, who have repeatedly rigged evidence to support their theory. But the politicians, pushed by the media, have so fallen for its propaganda that, short of dramatic change, our Western world now faces an unprecedented disaster.
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218 of 252 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is easily the best of several books I have read on the subject of global warming. Booker traces the history of the alarm over AGW from its origin - following the careers of the main proponents of the scare, such as James Hansen and Al Gore. In doing so he highlights their political manouevring, their inability to debate and justify their views and their growing vested interests. He describes in detail the way the notorious "Hockey Stick" graph appeared, became a major propaganda weapon, then became completely discredited. He describes how the British government's scientific advisers were exposed and humiliated when they tried to recruit leading Russian scientists to the crusade against global warming.
Booker goes on to chronicle the political response to warming - the process that led to Kyoto, the proliferation of useless wind farms and the British government's new law which requires us to reduce CO2 emissions by 80%, without having the slightest idea how to do so without shutting down the economy.
If you only buy one book about global warming, buy this one.
Booker goes on to chronicle the political response to warming - the process that led to Kyoto, the proliferation of useless wind farms and the British government's new law which requires us to reduce CO2 emissions by 80%, without having the slightest idea how to do so without shutting down the economy.
If you only buy one book about global warming, buy this one.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have just finished this book and have a scientific background.
I have also just been reading a lot of the comments regarding other reviews.
I am not that clever but here is what I think of the book.
It was an entertaining read. It asked questions about the validity of data and the supposed manipulation of said data to bring about the "end of the world" scenario that the pro-Global Warming lobby seem hell bent on (please excuse the pun) presenting.
I have to say that the text reads as less than balanced (as the vehement anti-Gore/Mann/IPCC sentiment attests to) but have to admit that I am swung by the more than real questions regarding the "social" connections between the IPCC report "scientists" and the very real criticisms of the manipulation of data by independent specialists in their respective fields (e.g. Wegman). I find the suppression, if that is the real truth, of Svensmark's papers (muon seeding) because of their possible anti-concensus spin really disturbing.
I will add that this book is written by a JOURNALIST not a SCIENTIST so all those reviewers/zealots from either camp should stay away from it. It will not change your mind! I am, personally, glad it isn't written by a scientist because, having read so many papers in my time, it would be deathly dull and wouldn't get you moved either way.
BIG CRITICISM - For a journalist there had been very slack tracking of errors. Spelling and basic grammar were found lacking in most chapters. I'm guessing that Mr Booker has such feelings that his fingers were in a blur on the keyboard. No excuses - bad writing (I should know, I'm not Shakespeare) from a broadsheet newspaper should be a criminal offence.
To all readers a question:
Does it seem funny to either side of the Global Warming camp that the most vehement advocate of the "disaster" scenario, and Nobel prize winner to boot, will stand to become obscenely rich from the trading of carbon on various markets around the world? Does that not qualify as insider trading?
Can I also just point out that many politicians are crooked. The proof? The UK MP Allowances Scandal. The inability of the EU Auditors to accept the last few years accounts for the European Parliament prompting claims of fraud on an obscene scale by MEPs. The US Lobby system - lots of money with lots of vested interests to individuals. As long as people that are politically motivated are allowed to continue to dictate the direction of the science then we will NEVER get any closer to understanding even a fraction of the complexity of our environment.
Leave science to the scientists and let there be INDEPENDENT scrutiny of the evidence by genuinely independent specialists in the field.
Oh, and by the way Mr Booker, if you believed that the BBC has ever been apolitical then we haven't been watching the same channels for about 30 years!
I say buy the book. At the very least it is a page-turner!
I have also just been reading a lot of the comments regarding other reviews.
I am not that clever but here is what I think of the book.
It was an entertaining read. It asked questions about the validity of data and the supposed manipulation of said data to bring about the "end of the world" scenario that the pro-Global Warming lobby seem hell bent on (please excuse the pun) presenting.
I have to say that the text reads as less than balanced (as the vehement anti-Gore/Mann/IPCC sentiment attests to) but have to admit that I am swung by the more than real questions regarding the "social" connections between the IPCC report "scientists" and the very real criticisms of the manipulation of data by independent specialists in their respective fields (e.g. Wegman). I find the suppression, if that is the real truth, of Svensmark's papers (muon seeding) because of their possible anti-concensus spin really disturbing.
I will add that this book is written by a JOURNALIST not a SCIENTIST so all those reviewers/zealots from either camp should stay away from it. It will not change your mind! I am, personally, glad it isn't written by a scientist because, having read so many papers in my time, it would be deathly dull and wouldn't get you moved either way.
BIG CRITICISM - For a journalist there had been very slack tracking of errors. Spelling and basic grammar were found lacking in most chapters. I'm guessing that Mr Booker has such feelings that his fingers were in a blur on the keyboard. No excuses - bad writing (I should know, I'm not Shakespeare) from a broadsheet newspaper should be a criminal offence.
To all readers a question:
Does it seem funny to either side of the Global Warming camp that the most vehement advocate of the "disaster" scenario, and Nobel prize winner to boot, will stand to become obscenely rich from the trading of carbon on various markets around the world? Does that not qualify as insider trading?
Can I also just point out that many politicians are crooked. The proof? The UK MP Allowances Scandal. The inability of the EU Auditors to accept the last few years accounts for the European Parliament prompting claims of fraud on an obscene scale by MEPs. The US Lobby system - lots of money with lots of vested interests to individuals. As long as people that are politically motivated are allowed to continue to dictate the direction of the science then we will NEVER get any closer to understanding even a fraction of the complexity of our environment.
Leave science to the scientists and let there be INDEPENDENT scrutiny of the evidence by genuinely independent specialists in the field.
Oh, and by the way Mr Booker, if you believed that the BBC has ever been apolitical then we haven't been watching the same channels for about 30 years!
I say buy the book. At the very least it is a page-turner!
41 of 51 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a well-written and entertaining polemic which lands some very effective blows on important soft targets. He is mainly attacking the "hockey stick" as piece of political propaganda rather than science and the political consensus which has developed to drive policy at the expense of rational and open debate.
But it is important to understand Christopher Booker as an entertaining extremist who likes to find people who hold extreme views, show how flawed they are and conclude that everything anyone says is therefore a lie. This is faulty logic. As an example he has also written on evolution. Dawkins uses exactly this tactic to attack naive Creationists and somehow conclude that therefore God does not exist. Booker attacks Dawkins by pointing out that evolution does not explain everything. What they have in common is that they ignore the fact that most people know this and most sensible opinion is in between. Dawkins does not represent evolution any more than Creationists represent Christianity. They are both extreme sects with limited but vocal support.
The recent exposure of the CRU emails supports many of his assertions in the book. But this is not a book which addresses the science or even acknowledges what it actually is setting out to demonstrate. I think he is producing evidence to support the idea that the science is not "settled" or "certain". He concludes from this that it is all therefore a lie and that there is no AGW. But this is not a necessary conclusion; it could just be regular science on a complex topic.
As an aside my personal view is that the insistence of the AGW lobby that the science is "certain" is counterproductive. It is a silly assertion which leaves them open to this type of attack as a small chink in the argument makes everything fall down.
But it is important to understand Christopher Booker as an entertaining extremist who likes to find people who hold extreme views, show how flawed they are and conclude that everything anyone says is therefore a lie. This is faulty logic. As an example he has also written on evolution. Dawkins uses exactly this tactic to attack naive Creationists and somehow conclude that therefore God does not exist. Booker attacks Dawkins by pointing out that evolution does not explain everything. What they have in common is that they ignore the fact that most people know this and most sensible opinion is in between. Dawkins does not represent evolution any more than Creationists represent Christianity. They are both extreme sects with limited but vocal support.
The recent exposure of the CRU emails supports many of his assertions in the book. But this is not a book which addresses the science or even acknowledges what it actually is setting out to demonstrate. I think he is producing evidence to support the idea that the science is not "settled" or "certain". He concludes from this that it is all therefore a lie and that there is no AGW. But this is not a necessary conclusion; it could just be regular science on a complex topic.
As an aside my personal view is that the insistence of the AGW lobby that the science is "certain" is counterproductive. It is a silly assertion which leaves them open to this type of attack as a small chink in the argument makes everything fall down.
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