Global Warming and Other Eco-Myths: How the Environmental Movement Uses False Science to Scare Us to Death

By: Bailey, Ronald

Bailey (a writer and adjunct scholar at CEI, the Competitive Enterprise Institute) gathers these dozen articles to discredit what he calls false science and an ideological environmentalism that wants to claim the mantle of objective science.... Bailey's contributor assertions include: global

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761536604
• ISBN13: 9780761536604
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Prima Lifestyles
• Length: 423 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"

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Honest Discussion

Since I cannot respond to all the reviewers pretending to be "climatologists" or engineers using the same tired intimidation techniques of anyone who questions global warming is a shill for the oil co.s or desperate and trasparent arguments from authority, I will respond here. Shell and BP (rechristened "Beyond Petroleum") are among the biggest contributors to global warming activism! It gives them an edge over unrepentent companies like Exxon for one! Environmentalism is now a huge industry itself, $4 biliion a year in the US and $8 billion yearly world wide. Moreover this industrial Gorilla is not beholden to things that "evil corporations" are, like accountability and tranparency.

Feeding 10 billion people

No climate disaster is looming. The earth has experience five segments of surface temperature changes: 1878 (0.31 F warming 22 years), cooling to about 1911 (-.43 F in 34 years), noticeable warming to 1944 (.86 F in 34 years), slight cooling in 1976 (-.13 F in 33 years), and noticeable warming to the present (.77 F in 25 years). The net effect over the next 100 years will be .2 F global temperature change. The number of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and droughts, are not increasing in number or severity. Five of the most signification droughts have occurred before 1500. In some place winters seem to be getting warmer in some of the coldest places. The sea level will rise naturally and slowly for centuries. In the past 6,000 years, the sea rose about 2 inches per century, but by 1850 - the rate increased to 6 inches per century. The rate has been steady but not accelerating. Temperature in the Antarctic has actually decline over the past 30 years. Major portions of the West Antarctic ice cap are thickening and the extent of the sea ice around the continent has actually expended since 1980. In 2002, a large section of the Larsen Ice Shelf disintegrated into the adjacent Weddell Sea, a size, 1250 square miles by 650 feet thick. Since 1979, the global temperature trend has been a modest .06 C increase per decade. Carbon Dioxide is a lifeblood of the plant not a pollutant. The earth is more than a large contain of air. The earth has various ways to process and eject extra energy in the system. Finding out how CO2 affects the climate temperature is a vastly complex problem. Certain types of clouds act to cool the earths surface while other types work to warm the surface. Negative feedback suggests another idea on how CO2 affects climate temperatures. CO2 could work as a cooling factor. In other words, as C)2 increases the clouds that have a blanket effect will decrease in coverage, allowing more heat to escape to space and reducing the warming potential. Thus, the effect of clouds in a clime with more CO2 may be to lessen rather than magnify the relatively small warming of CO2 alone. Model projections of climate and weather impose a political pretext that forces consumers to reduce energy consumption. The artificial scarcity from political machinations pushes prices to higher levels and unduly taxes the consumer. In the last 30 years, the US has reduced the energy required to produce one unit of gross domestic produce by half. As population growth quadrupled over the past century, the number of of food calories has increased. Americans can grow corn in climate from Alabama to North Dakota. Clever people will develop energy cheaper and with less carbon. Population Growth: Sometime during the 21st century, world population will reach 9 to 10 billion people. While global population growth rates have slowed over the past 20 years, absolute population increases are still on the order of 75 to 80 million a year. Cereals wi

Great Retort

This book provides information and facts that fill in gaping holes in the Carbon Dioxide = Global Warming arguments. It truly debunks the notion that the KYOTO TREATY would be good for the world, and in fact provides irrefutable evidence to the contrary.This is a must read to those who wish to read both sides of the argument.CHEERS!

Forget the "prophets of doom" just search for truth....

and it's becoming easier to search for truth with the emergence of a brave group of people who are not afraid to go against the status quo and ask us to look beyond the sensational headlines and political correctness of the so called "green movement". From global warming to biotech food to chemicals, Ronald Bailey and the Competitive Enterprise Institute risk a lot by going against "conventional wisdom" and asking us to re-examine some of the hottest topics in the headlines today. Well researched and written so even a lay person like myself can understand it, this is a don't miss book for anyone who wants to stop being scared all the time because some "green" group or bureaucracy needs to keep the public in a state of anxiety in order to survive financially. The greatest payoff from reading the book? I find that I feel much better about the state of the planet and things do not seem so hopeless. Thanks CEI and Ronald Bailey.