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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and...

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and EnvironmentalismTitoloThe Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism
AutoreHorner, Christopher C.
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CategoriaScience: Environmental Science
Science: Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology
Nature: Environmental Conservation & Protection
RilegaturaPaperback
Dati350 p.; ill.
Anno2007
EditoreRegnery Publishing
CollanaPolitically Incorrect Guides (Paperback)
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This latest installment in the P.I.G. series provides a provocative, entertaining, and well-documented expose of some of the most shamelessly politicized pseudo-science we are likely to see in our relatively cool lifetimes.

Indice e argomenti trattati
Prefacexiii
Part I: Environmentalism and Authoritarians
Green Is the New Red: The Anti-American, Anti-Capitalist, and Anti-Human Agenda of Today's Environmentalists
3
Well-connected greens
Green on the outside, red to the core
People: The enemy
Your friends and neighbors
The familiar goal: Global salvation
Environmentalism as religion
Confused priorities
The betrayal of a movement
The Authoritarian Impulse: Environmentalists Want to Run Your Life
25
Global warming: So sue me
Nuremberg for dissenters: ``Are you now or have you ever been . . .''
More of the same
The Sky Is Falling
37
Alarmism made easy
Good news is no news
Doomsay your way to fame and fortune
Global warming alarmism: Who's the greatest?
Nuke the . . . nukes
Killer . . . trees?
Part II: Global Warming: The Convenient Lies
Top Ten ``Global Warming'' Myths
Global Warming 101
65
What's causing the warming?
How much are we warming?
How destructive is this warming?
The shame
Cure worse than the possible disease
The ``Consensus'' Lie
81
There is ``consensus'' and there is truth
How dare you speak!
Al Gore's undercount
Silencing dissent
More heretics to burn
Blinded by science
Getting Hot in Here?
111
Forgetting Siberia
Cold below the belt
The United States of hotness?
Nice figures
Airbrushing the past
Hockey Stick takes center ice, denies an Ice Age
Hockey Stick in the penalty box
Are models really dumb?
The North Korean tiger
Melting Ice Caps, Angrier Hurricanes, and Other Lies about the Weather
141
Can't bear the truth
Chilly reception for Arctic claims
Sea no evil
Doing something about the weather
The numbers game
Hurricane Kyoto
Drought
Al Gore: Couldn't stand the weather
Part III: The False Prophets (and Real Profits) of Global Warming
Media Mania
169
All the alarmism that's fit to print
Full court press
Historical hysteria
It came from Hollywood
The Big Money of Climate Alarmism
193
Enron: Leader of the Axis of E's
``Beyond Petroleum''? How about getting beyond BP?
Chemical dependence: DuPont
No utility: Cinergy (now Duke Energy)
Big Business and Big Green
Al Gore's Inconvenient Ruse
209
A better title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Raging bull
Apocalypse now
Sins of omission
Sins of commission: The usual suspects
Melting ice sheets
Part IV: Making You Poorer and Less Free
The Cost of the Alarmist Agenda
245
Energy demand
Carbon rationing and Capitol Hill
Cost/benefit analysis: Dividing by zero
Turning out the lights
It really ain't easy being green
It's been tried
Blind optimists at home
Stick it to the poor
No benefit
Renewable boondoggles
The greater good
Poorer and no cooler
The Kyoto Protocol
271
Blame it on Rio
The Senate's unanimous rejection
Kyoto's flaws
Impotent Kyoto
Europe's embarrassment
Bad science, bad math
Bush and Kyoto
Prattling political polemics
Global governance
The Holy Grail
Conclusion303
Notes305
Index339

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