An antidote to global warming hysteria
Lawrence Solomon’s The Deniers is an important book on global warming. Reader B.P. Terpstra provided a link to his review here – thank you.
As the dustwrapper on the book says, it’s about “the world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud.”
The book claims that on every “headline” global warming issue, “not only were there serious scientists who dissented, consistently the dissenters were by far the more accomplished and eminent scientists.”
B.P. Terpstra writes: “[T]he director of research, from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, Prof. Hendrik Tennekes, maintains that “there exists no sound theoretical framework for climate predictability studies” to justify catastrophic warming forecasts.
“The Deniers also calls readers to think outside the so-called consensus box. Is there really a consensus on the consensus? And, if so, how wise is it to present science as a show of hands? In it, Solomon, a Canadian columnist raises the issue of politics in all of this. Page 183: ‘Headline horrors make great scapegoats. There’s no more egregious or vicious example than governments using global warming to cover up their own failures to prevent the resurgence of malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases.’ Read the review.
