Posted on 11/29/2007 6:06:15 AM PST by flattorney
Los Angeles, CA (Nov. 27, 2007) -- "They are both examples of how science has been politicized," declares Holly Fretwell, author of the new kids book The Sky's Not Falling: Why It's OK to Chill about Global Warming (Kids Ahead Books, 0-9767269-4-7, for ages 8 and up, Sept. 2007)
“Scaring people into believing something is not just dishonest, it’s disrespectful,” says Fretwell. “To create a better world, a better future, we should educate, not indoctrinate. Innovation comes from knowing the real state of the world.” "Think of how much money and time have been squandered based on inflated, scaremongering statistics and computer models," Fretwell asserts. "In The Sky's Not Falling, I give kids numerous examples of the environmental and health issues we have the technology to solve right now, and encourage them to think for themselves."
She continues, "Thanks to a news media that is firmly in the 'man-made global warming' corner, it's been difficult to get the word out that the science behind climate change is extremely uncertain. There is NO scientific consensus that climate change is in large part human-caused. Nor is there scientific evidence that even drastic changes in human emissions will have a significant impact on climate.” Like many such organizations, IPCC is made up in part of agenda-driven politicians. For that reason, its conclusions are suspect. Fretwell cites a recent example, one of many concerning the IPCC and its fear-mongering conclusions. It concerns Dr. Jeff Kuhn, a University of Hawaii solar astronomer. Dr. Kuhn believes that the sun has a great deal of influence on our climate, and as an IPCC advisor, wanted the latest report to acknowledge that. As reported by the Maui Times, however, "the [IPCC] panel was controlled by two men, Kuhn said, who were committed to the view that carbon dioxide is the important component of temperature change, and IPCC-4 leaves out solar components."
That's an astounding statement, one that gets to the heart of the current mania over global warming, and exactly the kind of thing that led Holly Fretwell to write The Sky's Not Falling, a book designed to inform, not indoctrinate, kids 8 and up when it comes to the topic of global warming, climate change and how to truly help the environment.
"Kids need to know the truth today in order to solve the problems of the future. Unfortunately, media and celebrity claims that ‘the debate is over’ when it comes to global warming have been successful at stifling contrary views. Yet it's just those contrary views that we should be pursuing. More debate, more questions, more science, and more information can help us more aptly respond." Thanks to books like The Sky's Not Falling, organizations like The Science and Public Policy Institute and Junkscience.com, and outspoken critics like Sen. James Inhofe, the message is getting through that global warming is more a political construct than a scientific one, that our environment is better today in many ways, and that innovation and adaptation, not government control, are the keys to a bright future.
As opposed to kids books written by wealthy Hollywood dilettantes, Holly Fretwell brings genuine educational credentials and practical experience to the environmental debate, giving kids the straight scoop about global warming -- and the potentially devastating human and economic consequences of politically motivated responses to it. The Sky's Not Falling: Why It's OK to Chill About Global Warming is a balanced look at a complex issue, offering a refreshing, accessible combination of science and economics that enlightens while it entertains.
Posted for FlAttorney by TAB
What a great gift Idea! I hope this does well.
Unfortunately, this book will never see the inside of a public school library.
Anyone else have this?
I am tempted to get it.
Politics is a disease that has infected all levels of education from grade school on. It is a sickening state of affairs but George Orwell gave the warning but very few heeded it.
I just bought it. It’s being shipped. My daughter sometimes feels she is alone in her skepticism at school. I’m hoping this will help.
Most people know garbage tends to rule most public libraries. The “good stuff” that is still there is tough to get. At our library you have to “request” it. It may take awhile ... but it’s worth it - less to purchase. The garbage is ALWAYS sitting on the shelves. ALWAYS. No waiting for the garbage.
I just ordered this book over at Amazon
I just did too!
I don’t mind if OUR daughters are the only ones that can still THINK. “Global warming” is just another money making CRISIS from the left designed to have you give up a cvilized lifestyle and money.
Yes the climate is changing but that is NORMAL. It’s just part of a cycle.
I would expect to see global warming zealots publicly burning this “heretical” book, except that the fire might add to global warming.
Another one I am getting at Amazon:
Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed! (Hardcover)
http://www.amazon.com/Help-Mom-There-Liberals-Under/dp/0976726904/ref=pd_sim_b_title_1
It’s never too soon to introduce your kids to godless liberals and how they like to manipulate you.
I just responded to the first reviewer who gave it one star...surprise, he’s a teacher.
fooey...now I have to go back to the site and join in the fun.
It doesn't take much education (or even smarts) to realize that the naked politicizing of science has already occured.
It doesn't take much curiosity or digging to realize that the politicizing took place fairly recently. Our earth has been a violent place since its creation. I remember a (60s?) documentary titled Our Violent Earth.
The Madrid Quake, Tambora, Santorini and Vesuvius come to mind.
Hundreds and thousands of years before "global warming" became a gleam in an ignorant huckster's mind...
I really want her to have a SOUND mind and introduce her to legitimate science.
I also FORBID her to be a godless LIBERAL. When I grew up my parents were my examples and they are VERY conservative. It was also a time when people were more conservative. Today it’s different. Many have fallen for the liberal claptrap and it’s taught in public schools. We have her in a private, CONSERVATIVE school but even still, I want to be sure when mingling with others she doesn’t falter.
If you read the negative reviews on Amazon, they’re all the same liberal bumper sticker tripe. “The author must have stock in Exxon-Mobil”, “Conservative parents are ostriches” blah blah blah....all personal attacks, no substance...as usual.
If you read the negative reviews on Amazon, they’re all the same liberal bumper sticker tripe. “The author must have stock in Exxon-Mobil”, “Conservative parents are ostriches” blah blah blah....all personal attacks, no substance...as usual.
I noticed that and ignore it. It’s sad.
I noticed this other book, but it looks to be geared to adults
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) (Paperback)
by Christopher C. Horner (Author)
I have to read more about him. Any thoughts on this author?
I believe he’s a professor at Stanford. Can you imagine spending tens of thousands of dollars to send your kid to listen to this blowhard?
Unfortunately, that is the "business as usual" model of indoctrination. The political part of IPCC is the driving force behind the scare-mongering for reasons that are entirely non-scientific. Many other similar examples abound...
Nonetheless, some of the most ardent global alarmists are starting to change their tune. In 2005, Chris Mooney wrote "The Republican War on Science," a thorough indictment of the GOP's attempt to discredit scientific work on climate change. When he started research for his latest book, "Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle over Global Warming," he assumed it would be more of the same. Then, after meeting with leading climatologists, he concluded, "There's a wide range of respectable positions here. In the end, I had to write a completely different book."
My first heresy says that all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated. Here I am opposing the holy brotherhood of climate model experts and the crowd of deluded citizens who believe the numbers predicted by the computer models. Of course, they say, I have no degree in meteorology and I am therefore not qualified to speak. But I have studied the climate models and I know what they can do. The models solve the equations of fluid dynamics, and they do a very good job of describing the fluid motions of the atmosphere and the oceans. They do a very poor job of describing the clouds, the dust, the chemistry and the biology of fields and farms and forests. They do not begin to describe the real world that we live in. The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand. It is much easier for a scientist to sit in an air-conditioned building and run computer models, than to put on winter clothes and measure what is really happening outside in the swamps and the clouds. That is why the climate model experts end up believing their own models. -Freeman Tyson, Many Colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe
All this is part of the guerrilla warfare that is going on between proponents and skeptics of global warming. Dennis Deming, a climate scientist at the University of Oklahoma, recently told the Senate about his experience in the field:
“In 1995, I published a short paper in the academic journal Science. In that study, I reviewed how borehole temperature data recorded a warming of about one degree Celsius in North America over the last 100 to 150 years. The week the article appeared, I was contacted by a reporter for National Public Radio. He offered to interview me, but only if I would state that the warming was due to human activity. When I refused to do so, he hung up on me.”
With the publication of the article in Science, I gained significant credibility in the community of scientists working on climate change. They thought I was one of them.... One of them let his guard down. A major person working in the area of climate change and global warming sent me an astonishing email that said: "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period."-- Nir J Shaviv
The truth is out there
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