The inquisition of climate science
By: James Lawrence Powell
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780231157186; 9780231527842
Subjects: Climatic changes; Global warming
Description: The Inquisition of Climate Science is the first book to comprehensively take on the climate science denial movement and the deniers themselves, exposing their lack of credentials, their extensive industry funding, and their failure to provide any alternative theory to explain the observed evidence of warming. In this book, readers meet the most prominent deniers while dissecting their credentials, arguments, and lack of objectivity. James Lawrence Powell shows that the deniers use a wide variety of deceptive rhetorical techniques, many stretching back to ancient Greece. Carefully researched, fully referenced, and compellingly written, his book clearly reveals that the evidence of global warming is real and that an industry of denial has deceived the American public, putting them and their grandchildren at risk."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-219) and index.