Posted on 01/13/2005 3:52:29 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly This spirited critique challenges the conventional doom saying about global warming. Climatologist Michaels acknowledges that the earth is warming because of anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, but he insists that the warming will probably be modest and that nature and humanity will easily adjust to it. Writing in a lucid, engaging style supported by a mountain of data, he debunks such recent scare stories as melting ice caps and glaciers, intensifying storms and droughts, species die-offs and a Day After Tomorrow–style ice age. He argues that researchers and reporters mistakenly ascribe normal fluctuations in local weather to global warming and commonly ignore the facts (reports that the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu is being submerged by rising sea levels, for example, ignored research demonstrating that sea levels in that region have actually been falling). Michaels, who is a fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute, sometimes allows his own agenda to intrude. Advocates of the precautionary principle will note that he fails to demonstrate his claim that "there is no known, feasible policy that can stop or even slow these climate changes." And while he chalks up global warming alarmism to an unholy alliance of climatologists hungry for grants and media sensationalism, his remedy for biased science is not better science but a "wider source of bias" in the form of more funding of climatology by the fossil fuel industry. He also calls for the abolition of academic tenure—a crushing blow against an independent professorate that libertarians and their allies in the world of academia view as the intellectual wellspring of the regulatory state. Nonetheless, Michaels’s challenge to global warming orthodoxy should invigorate the debate over climate change. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Product Description: An eminently readable and often humorous critique, Meltdown documents hundreds of exaggerations from scientists, politicians and the media, and ties them together with the common thread of rational self-interest.
I have heard it said before, just not so well! I missed his name and was thinking as the show ended"Who was that and I want to hear more!"
Brit did a great interview.
Was he on today's Special Report? If so I'll catch the replay at 10 pm MST.
Note to self:
Read entire thread before asking questions of poster.
The term is "grant-grubber"--and everyone would be wise to take any alarmism from any erstwhile "scientist" with healthy seasonings of salt.
That's OK, how is the weather back there?
Or has all of the moisture gone north of you?
LOL!
I love mine too, although it is just a small one.
Nothing, nada, down here in SE NM from the recent batch of CA storms. But last year was one for the record books -- over 35 inches of rain, and 6-7 inches of snow on Christmas Eve for a white Christmas. OTOH, 2003 rainfall was about 7 inches. Normal is about 14 inches though the past few years have been less due to drought.
I'll have to tape this one. Patrick Michaels is a huge asset on our side.
Sounds like the "Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy" redux.... (cheery-picking the data to support an unsupported conclusion)
This seems to be the third position taken re greenhouse gases.
First: The Earth is not getting warmer.
Second: The Earth is getting warmer, but it'd due to natural causes.
Third: The Earth is getting warmer due to anthropogenic gas generation, but it's good for us.
I don't know which is currently the most popular.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_ice-age_031208.html
I hadn't heard about this...thanks for mentioning it.
I would claim (based on comments by some very skeptical climatologists):
The Earth is getting warmer.
It's probably due to antrhopic CO2; this can be alleviated using nuclear power.
The Kyoto accords are counter productive.
I haven't a clue how the additional energy will affect the weather.
BTTT
BTTT!!!!!!
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