The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World's Top Climate Scientists

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Encounter Books, 2010 - Political Science - 176 pages
The Great Global Warming Blunder unveils new evidence from major scientific findings that explode the conventional wisdom on climate change and reshape the global warming debate as we know it. Roy W. Spencer, a former senior NASA climatologist, reveals how climate researchers have mistaken cause and effect when analyzing cloud behavior and have been duped by Mother Nature into believing the Earth’s climate system is far more sensitive to human activities and carbon dioxide than it really is.

In fact, Spencer presents astonishing new evidence that recent warming is not the fault of humans, but the result of chaotic, internal natural cycles that have been causing periods of warming and cooling for millennia. More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not necessarily to be feared; The Great Global Warming Blunder explains that burning of fossil fuels may actually be beneficial for life on Earth.

As group-think behavior and misguided global warming policy proposals threaten the lives of millions of the world’s poorest, most vulnerable citizens, The Great Global Warming Blunder is a scintillating exposé and much-needed call for debate.
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Climate Change Happens
1
Chapter 2 We Are Going to Destroythe Creation
25
How WarmingGets Started
37
How MuchWarming Results from the Forcing
54
Chapter 5 How Mother Nature Fooledthe Worlds Top Climate Scientists
64
SatelliteEvidence for an Alternative Explanation
104
Dangerous Pollutantor Elixir of Life?
124
Predictions for the Future
139
Summary Conclusions
153
Notes
163
Index
173
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Roy W. Spencer is a Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He was formerly a Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA. He is co-developer of the original satellite method for precise monitoring of global temperatures from Earth-orbiting satellites. He has provided congressional testimony several times on the subject of global warming and authored the 2008 New York Times bestseller, Climate Confusion.

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