Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed
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From the author of the New York Times bestselling Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) comes Red Hot Lies, an exposé of the hypocrisy, deceit, and outright lies of the global warming alarmists and the compliant media that support them. Did you know that most scientists are global warming skeptics? Or that environmental alarmists have knowingly promoted false and exaggerated data on global warming? Or that in the Left's efforts to suppress free speech (and scientific research), they have compared global warming dissent with "treason"? Shocking, frank, and illuminating, Chris Horner's Red Hot Lies explodes as many myths as Al Gore promotes.
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A Scathing Expose
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These days it's hard to open a newspaper, turn on the TV or browse the internet news sources without coming across another doom-and-gloom story about Global Warming. And then there are all the fictionalized treatments of the subject that create a positive feedback loop with other sources of information, all having the ultimate effect of fueling the general paranoia about the imminent end of the World lest we repent and throw the global economy over the cliff and revert to pre-industrial mode of existence.
And yet, there are those lonely few who dare to raise their voices and question this alarmist mindset. One of the more prominent skeptics is Christopher Horner, the author of immensely popular The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism). In this latest book he provides a barrage of evidence suggesting that no, the extent of the problem if it even exists is not nearly as dire as it's being claimed, the few dissenting voices in the media and the scientific community are continuously being pressured to change their mind or else, the hysteria and the viciousness of the environmental lobby is appalling, and the consensus of the scientific community on many key findings is overinflated by orders of magnitude.
The book provides an incredible list of sources and references for further study and checking of the facts and claims from both sides of the debate. This alone makes it a valuable resource, and anyone who is genuinely interested in finding out if the critics' claims have any merit should definitely consult this book. The style of writing is mostly polemical and journalistic, but this works rather well for this kind of book. Those of us who have been raising questions about the validity of the assumptions behind the Global warming hysteria will find an invaluable ally in Horner.
Since the book came out there have been a spate of very public scandals involving several of the most prominent climate research/advocacy groups, including the University of East Anglia and the famed UN Panel. In the light of these it has become apparent that Horner's claims about the extent of the environmentalists' collusion and conspiracy in promoting bad data and bad science have been vindicated. Even the mainstream media is unable to ignore this side of the story any longer.
As a scientist I have been saddened and troubled by the way that legitimate science has been hijacked for political purposes. One of the trademarks of good science is the willingness to engage opposing viewpoints, and not dismiss them with disdain and with cheap ad-hominem attacks. Hopefully with more books like this one we can go back to discussing event the most controversial topics with cool heads.
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A paranoid mess
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This book is written by a man with so many unresolved issues he has allowed he boyish rebeliousness and insecurity transcend into modern science. A complete fabrication, waste of time, and quite concerning display of mental instability at its worst.
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A lawyer for his client.
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Mr. Horner is a lawyer by trade and an employee of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The CEI exists to promote short-term business interests at the sacrifice of every other human value, including long-term survival. Everything he says they pay for. It's best to assume that every word he writes is a lie, including "and" and "the".
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Excellent read
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The author does a fine job pointing out the misplaced focus of media and global warming alarmists. The idea that the earth warms and cools is not a scientific surprise. But it seems the media ever looking for a big story to sell air time, a group of politicians looking to raise tax revenue and garner more control over the people have become complicit in the deception of catastrophic global warming caused almost completely by man's CO2 emissions. Regardless of the scientific research that shows periods of global cooling with high carbon dioxide levels or scientists who have falsified temperature records to collect government grants to study man made global warming, the media and politicians forge ahead with their plans hoping no one will notice. Now's the time for the public to educate itself. This book provides a nice summary of challenges to the man made global warming theory from which a discussion can begin.
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Exploding watermelons cause global panic
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Until a week ago, this book could have been (and was) dismissed as "denial." The "scientific truth," we were told, lay in the hands of "peer-reviewed climate science."
Oops.
(That may be the biggest "oops" in the history of science.)
Climategate is upon us. The world has suddenly been handed hard evidence that the whole theory of AGW is not "science as usual," but a tidy bit of grantsmanship gone horribly wrong. The early emphasis of Climategate sleuths was on the e-mails; as a programmer, I was even more horrified by the details provided about the data and the illegible Fortran (!) code used to "produce results" in East Anglia.
"Watermelons," by the way, are reds masquerading as greens.
Christopher Horner deserves a Nobel Prize for being one of the very few to size up and report on this global fraud. I don't have any hope that he'll get one, because the current scandal seems destined to upset a whole boatload of apple-carts, including comfy European (and American) statists, Al Gore (obviously), and (can I say this?) the entire ruling class of the Western World.
Christoper Horner was definitely ahead of the 7 o'clock news with this story. He still is. But the "common people" --- who are not Hollywood stars, and who don't get invited to White House State Dinners --- have awakened. Climategate is not going away, and neither is this book.
By the way, "Official Washington" still does not admit that there is such a thing as Climategate. There are trillions of dollars at stake, folks --- YOUR dollars.
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