This book "Climate Cange Delusion and the Great Electricity Rip-off" is the latest offering by Ian Plimer in his battle against the belief that the current phase of global warming (which in fact is now on hold) is human-induced and results from the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by mankind. In great detail he puts forth the arguments as to why this is incorrect and how governments are taking disastrously expensive and inappropriate action to combat this imagined problem. Plimer has done this many times before in a series of well-written publications, as have a large number of other eminent scientsts, but very few, if any, at the policy level have listened to them because these policy-makers are under the sway of scientifically illiterate or semi-literate "green" environmental activists. A suitable subtitle for this book could perhaps, ironically, be "Some Inconvenient Truths". Plimer carefully examines, from a scientist's point of view, the fraudulent claims and arguments made by these activists, and as an Australian, objects strongly to the policies being pursued by Australian and other governments which will result in job losses and energy poverty for many of their subjects. South Australia now has the most expensive electricity in the world, closely followed by Denmark and Germany. Many of his points are interdisciplinary and complicated and may be quite difficult to grasp for the layman, but are of great importance for understanding the processes - for example, the buffering action between seawater and the rocks on the ocean floor.
The author is completely right to reiterate these complicated arguments again and again. In the last chapter he quotes Charles MacKay from his 1841 book "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" - "Men, it has been well said, think in herds: it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one". So then, perhaps much time will be required to return to sanity.
On the book's final page he quotes Mark Twain's wise observation: "It's easier to fool the people than to convince them that they've been fooled". It would seem that he was correct.
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climate change, if any, is not man-made
Reviewed in Canada on 18 July 2019Raphael Ketani
Non-problem of climate and the real problem of using wind energy to generate electricity.
Reviewed in the United States on 17 July 2019
Raymond Elliott
A non political review of alarming assertions.
Reviewed in Australia on 27 June 2021Roger Beck
Great, but a little dated now.
Reviewed in the United States on 27 August 2022Leigh Schu
I pray for my grandkids' freedom from the Marxists promoting this climate scam.
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