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The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with 'Climate Change' Turning Out to be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History? Paperback – 5 Nov. 2010

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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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If you are uncertain what to believe in this matter, or if you are inclined to believe that truth and virtue are all on the side of the AGW people, you should read Booker and take his various punches, sometimes quite telling in points of detail, on the chin. Think, don't dismiss, is the rule here. --The Australian

'Booker's gripping and intelligent polemic is worth reading.' --The Catholic Herald

'Meticulously researched, provocative and challenging... Buy this book and read it carefully. It needs your attention.' --Irish Times

'Booker's gripping and intelligent polemic is worth reading.' --The Catholic Herald

'Meticulously researched, provocative and challenging... Buy this book and read it carefully. It needs your attention.' --Irish Times

About the Author

As a noted commentator on the political, social and psychological history of our time, Christopher Booker has in recent years, through his weekly Sunday Telegraph column, become the most conspicuous 'global warming sceptic' in the British press. He has based his view on exhaustive research into the scientific evidence for and against the theory of 'man-made climate change'. His professional interest in this issue grew out of research for his previous book Scared To Death, co-written with Dr Richard North, a study of the 'scare phenomenon' which has been such a prominent feature of Western life in recent decades. Booker's other recent books have included The Seven Basic Plots, a best-selling analysis of why we tell stories which has established itself as a standard text (also published by Continuum). He has been an author and journalist for nearly 50 years, and was the founding editor of the satirical magazine Private Eye.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Continuum; Reprint edition (5 Nov. 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 378 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1441119701
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1441119704
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.69 x 2.83 x 20.93 cm

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Should be compulsory reading in every school.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 April 2024

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This book gives a good background into how all this climate nonsense started. There are now several other books that detail how it has escalated and why.

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Mr Booker changes his mind

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I like to read both sides of any debate. We hear the official story about climate change every day, but the sceptical view is less well presented. Booker is a highly articulate writer and he marshals his arguments persuasively. He probably makes the best case against the climate change consensus that can be made.

But. But. Now here is the extraordinary thing. I wanted to check up on a claim Booker makes on p. 148 that the Thames Barrier is being used more often to keep river water in, than to keep rising sea levels out of London. This of course goes completely against the official story and if true, blows the whole conspiracy out of the water. Booker gives two references as evidence for his claim. On looking them both up, I found they did not appear to support his claim at all. So either he was wrong, and inexcusably careless, or sinister interests are at work altering the record.

I then emailed him to ask about this. Here is his reply:

"I am glad you are enjoying the book, however the evidence is overwhelming. The climate is changing in response to dramatic increase in global temperature, which is in large part the result of human activity. More importantly, it looks increasingly likely that governments will fail to respond accordingly. "

What a turn up for the book! The author is now it seems a fully fledged supporter of the official line on climate change. What has happened? Has he had a road to Damascus conversion? He certainly kept it quiet if he did. But anyhow, the book gets 5 stars meanwhile because (a) it puts the sceptical case very well, and even climate change believers should be aware of how their opponents are thinking, and (b) the author has (apparently) had the courage to change his mind when the weight of evidence persuaded him to. Booker is therefore a hero in my mind, but to go one better and achieve sainthood he should now stand up in public and admit he was wrong.

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I have long been mystified by the disparity in short and long term weather forecasting. The Met Office is not very accurate at telling me what the weather will be in 48 hours but seemed pretty confident what it will be in 2050.

The atmosphere is a chaotic system but I was ready to believe that overriding the chaos there were long term trends. The alarming warnings have grown ever more desperate but the forecasts seemed to change a lot. At the same time, those who expressed scepticism started to be called rude and offensive names. A sure sign (in my experience) of ideology at work. Facts can defend themselves without abuse.

And this book is great at laying out the story of that ideology in such astonishing detail that I can understand those who place little faith in the warnings that human activity alone is causing the climate to heat up or change. The author has done a tremendous amount of research and the book contains a very clear narrative, a sort of diary, of how this thing exploded in our midst as a fully formed `scientific fact'. There are a multitude of footnotes and references to third party documents that back the story up most convincingly.

Why only 4 stars. Well, the end is a little out of date but, obviously, this is not the authors fault. The story has moved on with e-mail revelations etc., but we have also suffered an economic recession that has altered priorities for individuals if not for the main players. Secondly, I wanted a better idea of what the costs might be if the things we are doing to counter climate change continued because this aspect was advertised in the title but not really explored in the work.

Perhaps we just need a new edition?

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Thoroughly researched, presented in chronological order, a demolition of the myths and exposee of self-interest and incompetence

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 April 2018

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Christopher Booker has written an extraordinarily thorough and well researched book about the myth of Global Warming. His approach is to follow the course of events from the initial fear of a small handful of scientists in the 1980's that mankind was facing an imminent catastrophe to today where the world's politicians and media are steering us towards an even greater disaster. This chronological approach makes for truly fascinating reading, and at times is a real page-turner as Booker reveals the incompetence, self-interest and rigged pseudo-scientific evidence proffered by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, and the blind refusal to accept scientific arguments from internationally acknowledged experts in the field of Climate Research.

Booker holds no punches, exposing the alarmist myths, lies and blind ignorance amongst our political leaders, self-interested environmentalists and wealthy individuals and companies out to make huge profits from the scaremongering. He refers throughout to records of Senate Committee meetings, House of Lords select committees and numerous scientific studies, and articles and letters in leading scientific journals. He is especially critical of the political bias of IPCC and its denial of any scientific evidence that didn't fit in with its preconceived notions of climate change. He demolishes the gross distortions, alarmist myths and "inversions of scientific fact" of Al Gore's rhetoric played out in his film "An Inconvenient Truth", exposing hypocrisy and his ever-growing wealth. And he explains in clear language how erroneous mathematics, faulty statistical analyses techniques and arrogance were behind the iconic "Hockey Stick" graph that was the banner of the IPCC and climate change adherents.

This book is a "Must Have" for anyone interested in understanding the truth behind the Global Warming myth. It is packed with facts and incontrovertible arguments. In places it is amusing whilst elsewhere the evidence of incompetence and self-interest amongst those who shape our lives and our future is seriously disturbing.

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Akhaleet

Everyone with an open mind should read this book.

Reviewed in the United States on 22 January 2020

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First, this is a very readable book. It deals with a lot of science, but it explains it clearly and honestly. Second, it is a great introduction to how propaganda can sway even intelligent people. Third, its lessons are totally relevant to 2020 and government actions on climate change despite the fact that the book was published about 10 years ago and the author is sadly deceased. Fourth, one doesn't have to agree with the author's conclusions, but everyone should read the factual basis of his arguments. Ignoring the lessons of this book will have a profound impact on the near future economy of the world and civilization itself.

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Uitstekend en opvallend overzicht van de ontstaansgeschiedenis van de dure, maar niet duurzame klimaatcultus!

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Well documented. A must-read for anyone interested in the truth.

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地球温暖化？？？・・・解毒剤です

Reviewed in Japan on 29 March 2010

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まあ、何とも凄まじい。もともと「懐疑派」ではあったが、人間原因説（CO2原因説よりこのほうが適切）ここまでひどいとは、あきれかえってしまった。クライメートゲート事件発覚以前に描かれた本であるが、その一端は伺える。地球温暖化と人間原因説が、主流説になったいきさつ。IPCCは政治団体であること。うそ、捏造、ごまかしなどに満ちた歴史が描かれている。これはほとんど陰謀ではないか。そう考えざるを得ない。皮肉や辛辣なコメント、そうだったたのかという事実（例えば風力発電に関わる非効率性とエコフレンドリーの欺瞞）思わず笑ってしまうエピソード満載である。実際、IPCCの予測は外れている訳わけで、オーストラリア上院フィールディング議員の質問（本書293〜294）にまともに答えられる政府や学者はいるのだろうか。日本政府にも同じ質問をしてみたい。少なくとも予測はやり直しでしょう。「The Unstoppable Global Warming」は、主に科学的見地から人間原因説に批判を加えているが、本書は人間原因説の起源、政治、環境運動やメディアとの関係、歴史的背景などを描いている。当然のことながら、自然に科学的なごまかしなども描かれている。この本も早く翻訳してもらいたい。解毒剤として至急必要。特に政治家とメディアには必要。必読です。

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G. Stelzenmuller

Well done for a science writer

Reviewed in the United States on 4 February 2010

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This, as opposed to an actual scientist. Christopher Booker makes the argument (generally) that the earth is probably not warming so much from greenhouse gases, as from solar activity variations and ocean current changes. Further, current pushes to spend heavily on greenhouse gas cures for global warming will rather shift the balance of power and money away from the U.S. In fact, he argues that the whole process being forced by supporters of the IPCC will simply mail us the hugest bill for any project in history. His "conclusion" chapter lists the four reasons why global warming will likely end up the most expensive scare in history (p. 338). To his credit, the author details the myth that the global warming theory today is "settled science," and that "all scientists" support the IPCC findings, as claimed by Mr. Al Gore. The IPCC was shown to have been started and kept active by only a few famous scientists (and several non-scientists).

Importantly, Booker lists a dozen fields of science which will have to be heavily involved with analysis and remedy for global warming; simply listening to single-science advocates, especially from marginal science fields, will lead us to dangerously incomplete conclusions. He also spends considerable time demonstrating why the popular "hockey stick" graph turned out to be at best, just incorrect. At worst, and more appalling than the very bad statistical methodology used to create the conclusion, was the sloppy way the IPCC dealt with the whole affair, from acceptance to lack of critique (p.104)

Booker interlaces the science with the politics, a method that makes for interesting reading, if not causing occasional flipping pages back and forth the check former details and claims. The book's editor should take 10 lashes for not catching some publishing errors (10 were discovered by this reviewer!), but these are easily passed over, as they are mostly not substantial ones. The smart reader will catch the few more substantial ones. No science writer can be fully up-to-date with all sciences, and Booker may need to do more research on biofuels, as he discounts the energy value of this source because of crowding out food crops (p. 221). He makes no mention of using methanol, which would not have to use edible crops, and can exist in huge quantities on non-farm lands. Anyway, get this book to get one of the best, and most easily readable, critiques of global warming hyperbole.

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