The Dangers of Disputing Warming Orthodoxy
David Gordon - 1/8/2009
[Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed By Christopher C. Horner. Regnery, 2008. Viii + 407 pages. An audio version of this review, read by Dr. Floy Lilley, is available as a free MP3 download.]
Those of us who refuse to accept calls from proponents of global warming for drastic restrictions on production often confront objections like this:
You skeptics, blinded by fanatical devotion to the free market, ignore evidence. True enough, you can trot out a few scientists who agree with you. But the overwhelming majority of climate scientists view man-made global warming as a great threat to the world. The course of inaction you urge on us threatens the earth with disaster.
Christopher Horner’s excellent book provides a convincing response to this all-too-frequent complaint.
But how can it do so? Will not an “anti-global-warming” book of necessity consist of an account of scientists who dissent from the consensus? If so, will it not fall victim to the difficulty raised in our imagined objection? The book will pick a few favored experts to back up a preconceived political agenda.
Horner strikes at the root of this objection: it rests on a false premise. Contrary to what our objection assumes, there is in fact no consensus of scientists behind global-warming alarmism…
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January 11th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Global Warming is a fact use your own eyes and forget about the scientists. I lived in a mountainous area in South Africa where bushman once roamed freely. Many of their place names still exist today and one in particular Qwa Qwa (Double click) which in effect means “Whiter than White” describes the snow on its top. For the last twenty years at least there has been no snow on top of that mountain. The winters are also not as cold as they once were.The first year that I was there the average winter temperature was -10 degrees c since then never colder than -5 degrees c.
January 11th, 2009 at 9:03 am
My winters have been extremely cold for the past 4 to 5 years now. And my summers have been getting cooler. This is because the sun has been inordinately calm recently. In the nineties, I seem to remember it different … but it always changes.
I’m all for clean energy though. It’s the most sensible thing to do.
January 14th, 2009 at 8:22 am
What ever the state of the weather - the globalists are going to use it to scam and skim money off people around the globe. Are we at Daniel 11:20 with all this global warming stuff?