Climate of extremes
Subtitle: global warming science they don't want you to know
By: Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling Jr.
Contributors: Balling, Robert C.
Publisher: Cato Institute
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9781933995236
Subjects: Global warming; Climatic changes
Description: "It's a fact that there are fewer citations in the refereed scientific literature providing evidence for the moderate view of global warming, but that's to be expected. In Climate of Extremes, climatologists Patrick J. Michaels and Robert Balling Jr. explain that climate science is hardly unbiased, even though the global climate community itself believes that any new finding has an equal probability of making our climatic future appear more or less dire." "Michaels and Balling examine all aspects of the apocalyptic vision of climate change making headlines every day. This includes news stories on hurricanes being pumped up by global warming, the rapid melting of Greenland and Antarctica causing a sea-level rise of 20 feet over the next 90 years, the increasing pace of global warming, and a swiftly growing number of heat-wave related deaths. Each of these pop-culture icons of climate change turns out to be short on facts and long on exaggeration. People who read Climate of Extremes will emerge well-armed against an army of extremists hawking climate change as the greatest threat ever to our society and way of life."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A global warming science primer; title: Our changing climate history; title: Hurricane warning!; title: Sea-level rise and the great unfreezing world; title: Extreme climate: floods, fires, and droughts; title: Climate of death and the death of our climate; title: Pervasive bias and climate extremism; title: Balancing act: a modest proposal.