The real global warming disaster : is the obsession with 'climate change' turning out to be the most costly scientific blunder in history? / Christopher Booker
2010, First Edition. London ; New York : Continuum. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #456951
ISBN: 1441105522
Physical description; 368 pages : charts ; 22 cm). Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Part 1. Forging the "consensus," 1972-1997. How it all began : cooling and warming, 1972-1987 ; The road to Rio : enter the IPCC and Dr. Hansen, 1988-1992 ; The road to Kyoto : enter Vice-President Gore and IPCC 2 -- Part 2. The "consensus" carries all before it, 1998-2007. The "hottest year ever" : enter the "hockey stick" and IPCC 3, 1998-2003 ; The political temperature rises : "a far greater threat than terrorism," 2004-2005 ; Hysteria reaches its height : Gore and the EU unite to save the planet, 2006-2007 -- Part 3. The "consensus" begins to crumble, 2007-2009. The temperature drops : IPCC 4, the modellers lose the plot, 2007 ; A tale of two planets : fiction versus truth, 2008 ; Countdown to Copenhagen : colliding with reality, 2009 -- Epilogue: Saving the planet from whom? Subjects; Global warming, Climatic changes - Effect of human beings on.
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