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Author
Publisher
Overlook Duckworth
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In this well-informed and hard-hitting response to the scaremongering of the climate alarmists, Nigel Lawson, former Secretary of State for Energy under Margaret Thatcher, argues that it is time for us to take a cool look at global warming. Lawson carefully and succinctly examines all aspects of the global warming issue: the science, the economics, the politics, and the ethics. He concludes that the conventional wisdom on the subject is suspect on...
5) Red hot lies: how global warming alarmists use threats, fraud, and deception to keep you misinformed
Author
Publisher
Regnery Pub
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In Red Hot Lies, bestselling author Christopher Horner--himself the target of Greenpeace dirty tricks and alarmist smears--exposes the dark underbelly of the environmental movement: from power-hungry politicians blacklisting scientists who reject global warming alarmism to mainstream media outlets that openly reject the notion of "balance."
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Describes how global warming has made the Arctic's oil, gas, natural resources, and minerals more accessible and how competition between nations and corporate interests for control of the resources is endangering the Arctic's fragile ecosystems. -- Publisher's description.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The 2016 election left many people who are concerned about the environment fearful that progress on climate change would come screeching to a halt. But not Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope. Bloomberg, an entrepreneur and former mayor of New York City, and Pope, a lifelong environmental leader, approach climate change from different perspectives, yet they arrive at similar conclusions. Without agreeing on every point, they share a belief that cities,...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Prologue: 6229 Memphis Street -- Introduction: ʺThe Party Lineʺ -- Part I: Warming and Storming -- 1. Chimneys and Whirlpools -- 2. Of Heat Engines -- 3. and Computer Models -- 4. ʺLay That Matrix Downʺ -- 5. From Hypercanes to Hurricane Andrew -- Part II: Boiling Over -- Interlude: Among the Forecasters -- 6. The Luck of Florida -- 7. Frictional Divergence -- 8. Anger Dissipation -- 9. ʺThe #¿%& ̂Hit the Fanʺ -- 10. Resistance -- 11. ʺConsensusʺ...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC., a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This book will convince you that everything you think about climate change is wrong--and points the way toward making the world a vastly better, if slightly warmer, place for us all." --
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Argues that, unchecked, climate change will swamp every other issue facing us today. Indeed, what began as an initial response of many institutions-denial and delay-has now grown into a crime against humanity. Gelbspan's previous book, The Heat Is On, exposed the financing of climate-change skeptics by the oil and coal companies. In Boiling Point, he reveals exactly how the fossil fuel industry is directing the Bush administration's energy and climate...
13) Climate of hope
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Bloomberg, an entrepreneur and former mayor of New York City, and Pope, a lifelong environmental leader, approach climate change from different perspectives, yet they arrive at similar conclusions. Without agreeing on every point, they share a belief that cities, businesses, and citizens can lead -- and win -- the battle against climate change, no matter which way the political winds in Washington may shift. In Climate of Hope, Bloomberg and Pope...
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A polemic about global warming and the environmental crisis, which argues that ordinary people have consistently opposed the destruction of nature and so provide an untapped constituency for climate action. Crimes Against Nature uses fresh material to offer a very different take on the most important issue of our times. It takes the familiar narrative about global warming - the one in which we are all to blame - and inverts it, to show how, again...
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Collection of seminal texts on climate change from the phenomenon's discovery in the late 19th century to the present. Divided into three parts--Science, Politics, and Impact--this book presents opposing viewpoints, including essays and excerpts by scientists, politicians, novelists, religious leaders and others.
