| Description |
xi, 258 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-249) and index. |
| Contents |
2001: a theorem's odyssey -- On polar bears -- On Lomborg's endnotes -- Global warming is "no catastrophe" -- On melting glaciers and rising sea levels -- On Greenland and the missing figures -- The penguins sidebar -- On Antarctica and the Larsen-B ice shelf -- On hurricanes and extreme weather events -- Malaria in Vermont -- On malnutrition -- On water shortages -- Lomborg's triple-A rating -- How wrong was Lomborg? |
| Summary |
Friel's book is the first to respond directly to Lomborg's controversial research as published in The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001) and Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming (2007). His close reading of Lomborg's textual claims and supporting documentation reveals a lengthy list of findings that will rock climate skeptics and their allies in the government and news media, demonstrating that the published peer-reviewed climate science, as assessed mainly by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has had it mostly right--even if somewhat conservatively right--all along. Friel's able defense of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth against Lomborg's repeated attacks is by itself worth an attentive reading. --Publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Fraud in science.
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Fraud in science. |
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Global warming.
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Global warming. |
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Climatic changes.
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Climatic changes. |
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Lomborg, Bjørn, 1965-
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Lomborg, Bjørn, 1965- |
| Added Author |
Lovejoy, Thomas E.
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| Added Title |
Setting the record straight about global warming |
| ISBN |
9780300161038 alkaline paper |
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0300161034 alkaline paper |
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