Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science
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- ISBN13: 9781589794726
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Climate, sea level, and ice sheets have permanently changed, and the changes experimental today are less than persons of the past. Climate changes are cyclical and are driven by the Planet’s position in the galaxy, the sun, wobbles in the Planet’s orbit, ocean currents, and plate tectonics. In previous times, atmospheric carbon dioxide was far privileged than at present but did not drive climate change. No run off greenhouse effect or acid oceans occurred during times of excessively high carbon dioxide. During past glaciations, carbon dioxide was privileged than it is today. The non-scientific well loved political view is that humans change climate. Do we have reason for concern about possible human-induced climate change?
This book’s 504 pages and over 2,300 references to peer-reviewed scientific literature and additional authoritative sources engagingly synthesize what we know about the sun, planet, ice, water, and air. Importantly, in a parallel to his 1994 book challenging creation science, Telling Lies for God, Ian Plimer describes Al Gore’s book and movie An Inconvenient Truth as long on scientific misrepresentations. Trying to deal with these misrepresentations is to some extent like trying to argue with creationists, he writes, who misquote, prepare evidence, quote out of context, snub contrary evidence, and make evidence ex nihilo.
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I haven’t read this book, but I reflect it’s simply dreadful.
Everyone knows global warming is fact. There is no debate
about the theme, except from idiots like Plimer who dare
to question Al Gore’s fantastic movie. And what a stupid publisher
for having foisted this trash on the public. Bring shame on, bring shame on.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Plimer is right about Global Warming (er, Climate Change) being a fraud perpetrated by wealthy interest groups, but he demonstrates a poor understanding of our local Suin and its total Plasma environment.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I’m not a climate scientist. Neither is Ian Plimer. So I read a few web postings to try to find out why Plimer’s views are rumor has it that so different from persons of the “consensus” reported by the IPCC panel of thousands of scientists. Some of the postings accuse Plimer of bias, distortions, omissions and downright incorrect information. Plimer’s bias can be suspected from his close association with mining. He’s not very green to say the least. I would guess that, like society, he is in denial. It must be a bit painful to admit and simpler to deny that your life work has been screwing up life for everybody from now on.
Four thoughts on such controversies:
1. Very smart people can have really crackpot views.
2. A scientific consensus can be incorrect, but Plimer’s book falls a long way fleeting of building the case that the climate consensus is incorrect in concluding that there is strong evidence humans are heating up the planet and we should stop for our own excellent.
3. Amusing how views of the occasional Bjorn Lomborg or Ian Plimer get so much play in the pro-growth media and how small work the media do to try to check out the science through attention to actual research data. What they do as a replacement for is get additional crackpots to say he’s done a fantastic job in taking on the evil, greedy and misguided scientific establishment. That gives it more credibility if you aren’t paying attention to who’s commenting.
4. Man, we are in a lot of distress when it is so simple to muddy the water and place off dealing with environmental issues.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is a disgraceful effort by a scientist to use copious unverified assertions, incorrect and debunked graphs, omitted or skewed data, and seemingly blatant lies to undermine a scientific theory he does not agree with. Skepticism is excellent, but Plimer’s rabid hatred of all things to do with Anthropogenic Global Warming appear to have driven him to utilise exactly the methods he alleges his opponents use to drive an agenda. Google this book and you will find copious scientists stating that it is a fantastic disservice to science.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Everyone of course is entitled to his or her opinion. But nowadays, too many scientists also seem to feel qualified enough to present themselves as experts and arbiters on issues concerning climatology. No geologist, botanist, zoologist or archaeologist would accept a climatologist as a peer on scientific assessments in their respective fields. Yet, scientists from nearly any meadow of study feel all of a sudden competent enough to write about the climate, as if to say “hey, this isn’t rocket science, is it?!” Well, I’ll let you in on a secret: it is. The reading public does not seem to bother though, as if to say “a scientist is a scientist is a scientist. What’s the difference? Close enough.” Yet who in their right mind would entrust an orthopedist or a dermatologist, let alone a biologist or zoologist, with their root canal treatment if they can have a dentist take care of it? I have never heard “close enough” from anyone in THIS context. Furthermore, to turn Michael Crichton’s Einstein quote (“It only takes one scientist to refute me.”) around: whose assessment would you rather trust when it comes to climate issues: one climatologist or ten geologists? Plimer’s book falls exactly into this category: here is a geologist who may write convincingly about climate change. But, competence does not derive from conviction but from expertise. In this sense his book is just another opinion of a lay person with respect to climatology who shares his convictions with the reading public. But truth be told, he has spent his career building an expertise in a scientific meadow additional than climatology.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5