Four Views of Global Warming: Severe Danger, Mild Danger, Denial, Positive Event
The value of this book is that it brings together a very diverse range of viewpoints concerning global warming and seeks to give a sympathetic interpretation of all of these views. There are two elements of the book which are likely to be of particular interest. Firstly, the outlining of the various reasons why one might want to deny that anthropogenic global warming exists. Secondly, the elucidation of the view that anthropogenic global warming is a 'positive event'. This latter view is not the view that "it would be more pleasant for many humans if the temperature of the atmosphere was a little warmer". Rather, it is the view that at the level of the entire human species (even all life on Earth) there is a positive side to anthropogenic global warming which far outweighs the 'local' negative aspects of the phenomenon.