Has anybody read this book? The following is excerpted from a book report/promo I received in my e-mail this morning. It summarizes some of the issues cited by the non-pro-AGW crowd on this thread. (I think Nos. 4 - 6 - 7- 8 - 9 - 11 - 14 - 15 - 17 are the most provocative):
In The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) (Christopher) Horner details how the global warming crowd uses strong-arm legal tactics -- and worse -- against those who dare to point out the weakness of their arguments for global warming. He explodes ten top global warming myths, carefully examines the evidence to determine how much warming there really is and what is actually causing it. He exposes the lies that the environmental lobby routinely tells to make its case, the ways in which it is trying to impose initiatives such as the Kyoto Accords on an unwilling American public, and much more -- such as the green lobby's favorite politicians, a rogue's gallery including John Kerry, John McCain, Joe Lieberman and others.
1) Proof: media hype and deceptive Al Gore slide shows notwithstanding, greenhouse gas concentrations demonstrably do not determine temperatures
2) The mainstream media's routinely sloppy, inaccurate reporting about evidence of global warming and other environmental matters
3) More proof: The hole in the ozone layer -- the 1980s manmade environmental crisis -- was caused by the Antarctic atmosphere's being too cold
4) How environmentalists throughout modern history have instilled fear over one looming "crisis" or another with the aim of increasing government control over things big and small
5) Why the environmental alarmists do whatever they can to avoid actual debate
6) The environmentalist movement: not a grassroots phenomenon driven by scruffy idealists but an elite-driven movement that lards the coffers of pressure campaigns with wealth -- commonly inherited, often corporate, and far too-frequently looted from the taxpayer
7) Recent studies that have shown that the environment is actually flourishing -- and how the greens have turned even these into evidence of our imminent doom
8) "To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem": the environmentalists' openly anti-human agenda
9) How real pollution problems can be addressed through the technological improvements that the Left is doing all it can to obstruct
10) Al Gore's global warming jihad: how it will lead to massively higher costs and direct or indirect energy rationing -- and probably many measures that are even worse
11) How much of the budget for environmental pressure groups comes directly from taxpayers -- through grants for public "education" and congressional schemes designed to subsidize the greens' lawyers
12) Green lunacy run amok: how even respectable political figures (and Slick Willie) say that the environmental damage caused by American industry is a greater threat than terrorism
13) Why, as with other political crusades that fail in the arena of representative democracy, the greens now see the courts and supranational bodies as their best hopes
14) How environmental policies come with a cost, often to the society as a whole, decreasing wealth, and so harming health -- dangers the average environmentalist ignores
15) How greens worship primitive lifestyles from afar, while those mired in them would kill to escape them
16) How, almost without fail, global warming skeptics are charged with being stooges of industry -- a charge that neither addresses the skeptic's criticism or question, nor reflects the fact that most of "industry" now actually supports the alarmists' agenda
17) Ethanol: sobering evidence that it might not be good for the environment -- and how the damage to soil from single-crop farming is probably more real than global warming
18) How the risks of climate change policy far outweigh the risks that might realistically be expected as climate continues to change.
I haven't read it and won't buy it--at least until it comes out in paperback--but may check to see if the local library has a copy. I got the picture from Amazon.com.
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--Foxfyre
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I?-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
perhaps we think a bit more than you.
. hbg
living in the great white north)
