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The Age of Global Warming: A History Hardcover – Illustrated, 6 Mar. 2013

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Rachel Carson's epoch-creating Silent Spring marked the beginnings of the environmental movement in the 1960s, its 'First Wave' peaking at the 1972 Stockholm Conference. The invention of sustainable development by Barbara Ward, along with Rachel Carson the founder of the environmental movement, created an alliance of convenience between First World environmentalism and a Third World set on rapid industrialisation. The First Wave crashed in 1973 with the Yom Kippur War and decade-long energy crisis. Revived by a warming economy of the 1980s, environmentalism found a new, political champion in 1988: Margaret Thatcher. Four years later at the Rio Earth Summit, politics settled the science. One hundred and ninety-two nations agreed that mankind was causing global warming and carbon dioxide emissions should be cut. Rio launched rounds of climate change meetings and summits, with developing nations refusing to countenance any agreement restraining their greenhouse gas emissions - their blanket exemption from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol leading to its rejection by the United States that year, and again twelve years later in Copenhagen. This therefore marked not just the collapse of the climate change negotiations, but something larger - an unprecedented humiliation for the West at the hands of the rising powers of the East.

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448 pages
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English
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Quartet Books
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6 Mar. 2013
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16.51 x 4.45 x 23.5 cm
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0704372991
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978-0704372993
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'A superb and compelling book' --Mail on Sunday

'This is a brilliant piece of work that every climate change negotiator should have in his front pocket' --Jon Snow

'A great achievement ... Rupert Darwall has written a compelling and balanced account of a story that needs to be told' --Nigel Lawson

'A total masterpiece' --James Delingpole

'Gripping ... Darwall's book has been widely praised as a welcome addition to our understanding of this extraordinary story, which as he says reflects a historic shift in the global balance of power between the West and those fast-rising nations to the east led by China and India' --Spectator

'Rupert Darwall has told a story of frauds and fools thoroughly and well. His truth may be inconvenient for some. For the rest of us, it is a breath of fresh air' --The American Spectator

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Rupert Darwall read economics and history at Cambridge, after which he worked at the Conservative Research Department, then in the City as an investment analyst and in corporate finance. He has written for leading publications in the UK and the US and for London-based think tanks.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Quartet Books (6 Mar. 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0704372991
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0704372993
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.51 x 4.45 x 23.5 cm

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Bought this for a friend - I think he liked it! From flicking through it

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Bought this for a friend - I think he liked it! From flicking through it, it seems to cover a good history and background to global warming, and offers some good insight into the future and how to tackle it.

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Does this history really start back in Francis Bacon's time? Yes!

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Only just started reading it, but I'm hugely impressed by the author's scholarly and objective approach, also his style which makes complex ideas easy to assimilate. I haven't encountered any bigotry about the rights and wrongs of this topic that exercise the the opposing parties, often so vehemently.

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Brrrr

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How long will this crazy delusion continue. Forget the Common Market this is really what is bankrupting Britain

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Brian Pugsley

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Excellent book that put the alarmism about global warming into perspective.

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Impressively researched and readable

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A comprehensive review of the history of Global Warming, its place in history, and with particular reference to the economics of global warming policies. A sobering insight into what can happen if you let experts form policy

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heavy going but thorough. Worth the trouble

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 February 2016

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Very good.

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The story of how unelected political cliques looked for a chance to force its ideology on the rest of us

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The author begins by covering the history of those who confidently make pessimistic predictions about the future, usually by assuming man is incapable of technological improvement or adaption from that point on. They then go on to get it spectacularly wrong.

The modern environmental movement holds in great reverence certain individuals, such as Paul Ehrlich. He wrote books endlessly predicting chaos caused by an increasing human population, and in them he made very specific predictions - none of which came true.
From these influences various non-elected groups were formed such as `The Club of Rome' and portentously made great pronouncements about too much economic development, too much growth, too many people etc. These anti-human beliefs chimed with the post mid-1980's Environmental movement, and they waited ... until there was thought to be enough science around to demonize CO2 and Man made Global Warming was born.
After spreading belief in this `new age' religion in the guise of science to the highest government levels; the attempts to control CO2 world-wide have been one laughable failure after another. At the end the computer model predictions of warming ( solid science ) have not come true and the rest of us are left wondering what the hell has been going on.

The author finishes the book with a very good warning, that even with the collapse of man-made warming/climate change ideology, the `types' who support this sort of thing will be back with another scare - scientifically based, of course - that blames wicked mankind for some sort of imagined catastrophe, and demanding unquestioning obedience and money from the rest of us.

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