Climatism!: Science, Common Sense, and the 21st Century's Hottest Topic
, by Goreham, Steve
- ISBN: 9780982499634 | 0982499639
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 4/1/2010
Why have we had eight years of global cooling when all the global climate models projected eight years of warming?
| Acknowledgments and Dedication | p. vii |
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Author's Note | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Global Warming Alarmism Debunked | |
| A Tsunami for Global Warming Alarmism | p. 7 |
| Three Climatist Prophets of Doom | |
| Eight "Disasters" of Global Warming | |
| Media Cheerleaders | |
| The Consensus Appears Unanimous | |
| The Global Delusion | |
| The Thin Science for Man-Made Global Warming | p. 19 |
| Energy Balance and Weather | |
| Early Research on Carbon Dioxide | |
| The Simple Greenhouse Effect | |
| Increasing CO2 and Temperature | |
| A Closer Look at Temperatures | |
| Global Warming Dogma | |
| Rise of the Climate Models | |
| The Vostok Ice Cotes | |
| Thin Science for Man-made Global Warming | |
| Carbon Dioxide: Not Guilty | p. 39 |
| Carbon Dioxide—A Trace Gas | |
| The Carbon Cycle | |
| Carbon Dioxide Is Great for Plants | |
| The Core Issue: The Greenhouse Effect | |
| Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Impacts | |
| It's All About the Feedback | |
| Garbage In, Garbage Out | |
| Climate Change Is Continuous | p. 59 |
| Our Climate Is Dominated by Cycles | |
| Long Term: The Milankovitch Cycles | |
| Measurement of Past Temperatures | |
| The Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age | |
| Medium Term: The 1500-Year Cycle | |
| Short Term Cycles: El Niño, PDO, and AMO | |
| Natural Cycles Explain Global Warming | |
| The Sun Is Our Climate Driver | p. 79 |
| Evidence Points to the Sun | |
| The Link between Cosmic Rays and the Sun | |
| New Evidence: Solar Activity Affects Clouds | |
| Nature Is Not Cooperating | |
| Headed for Global Cooling? | |
| Global Warming Disasters Debunked | p. 99 |
| Icecap Melting Causes Sea Level Rise | |
| An Increase in Reported Natural Disasters | |
| Devastation from Hurricanes and Storms | |
| Famine from Droughts and Floods | |
| Increase in Temperature | |
| Related Deaths | |
| The Polar Bear and Species Extinction | |
| Melting Glaciers and Water Shortages | |
| Coral and Acidification of the Oceans | |
| Gulf Stream Shut Down and New Ice Age | |
| Climatism and "Snake Oil" Remedies | |
| The IPCC and the Road to World Delusion | p. 137 |
| United Nations and Environmental Activism | |
| Ozone Hole and Montreal Protocol | |
| Theatrics in the Summer of 1988 | |
| The IPCC Gathers a Host of Support | |
| Score Decided before the Game Was Played | |
| 1992 Earth Summit and the FCCC | |
| Increasing "Certainty" of IPCC Reports | |
| Re-writing History with the Mann Curve | |
| Consensus Science from the IPCC | |
| The Kyoto Treaty: Lesson in Futility | |
| Alarming IPCC Temperature Forecasts | |
| Climatism: The Ideology behind Global Warming Alarmism | p. 161 |
| Malthus and the Roots of Climatism | |
| The New Malthusians Adopt Climatism | |
| The Improving State of the World | |
| The Environment and Kuznets Curves | |
| The Beliefs, Objectives and Tactics of Climatism | p. 179 |
| Eight False Beliefs of Climatism | |
| The Objectives of Climatism | |
| The Tactics of Climatism | |
| The Science Is Not Settled | p. 197 |
| The Attack on Deniers | |
| Revelle, Gore, and Suppression Science | |
| Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty | |
| The Climatist Inquisition | |
| The Purchasing of Climate Science | |
| Three Notable Dissenters | |
| The Culpable News Media | |
| Growing Number of Climate Realists | |
| The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change | |
| Climategate at East Anglia | |
| Snake Oil Remedies to "Save the Planet" | p. 223 |
| The Plan: Reduce CO2 Emissions 50% to 85% | |
| The Stabilization Wedges | |
| Emissions After Kyoto Protocol | |
| Kyoto II Conference in Copenhagen | |
| Attack on Freedom and Our Way of Life | |
| Rationing and The Climate Police | |
| Renewable Energy "Solutions" | |
| Energy: The Lifeblood of Prosperity | p. 241 |
| The Hydrocarbon Revolution | |
| World Energy Usage | |
| Energy Use Grows Despite Attacks | |
| World Energy Reserves | |
| Solar Basics About Electrical Power | |
| Renewable Energy: Reality Far Short of Promises | p. 259 |
| Solar Energy: Perpetual 1% Solution | |
| Realities of Solar Power Economics | |
| Home Solar Systems | |
| Desertec | |
| Wind Power: The Choice of Climatism | |
| Wind Power: Built on Subsidies and Mandates | |
| Carbon Capture and Storage: A Fool's Errand | |
| Biofuels: Government-Financed Explosion | |
| Don't Burn Food | |
| Fuel Economy Mandates and Electric Cars | |
| Chains for the Developing Nations | p. 293 |
| China and India: The Dilemma of Climatism | |
| Developing Nations in Dire Need of Energy | |
| Past Chain: Tragedy of the DDT Ban | |
| Renewable Fantasy for Developing Nations | |
| Stranglehold oh Global Capital | |
| Bribes for Developing Nations | |
| Spectre of Climate Protectionism | |
| Climatism in Action: Debacles around the World | p. 317 |
| "Enlightened" City of Austin, Texas | |
| Renewable Debacle in Spain | |
| Renewables Fall Short in Philippines | |
| The Sorrow of Denmark | |
| California: A Blizzard of Climate Regulations | |
| The U.K.: Many Sacrifices for Illusory Benefits | |
| The European Emissions Trading Circus | |
| Energy Nonsense for the Good Old U.S.A. | p. 347 |
| Independence from Foreign Oil | |
| Growth and Green Jobs | |
| Minimal Cost | |
| 20% Renewables Possible by 2020 | |
| Foolishness of U.S. Energy Policy | |
| Road to Blackout Paradise? | |
| Climatist Demands of the U.S. | |
| Common Sense and the Future | p. 379 |
| We Can No Longer Control the Seas | |
| What's All the Concern About? | |
| Good News from Realistic Climate Science | |
| The Bad News is Climatism Itself | |
| Common Sense for the 21st Century | |
| Trends for the Future | |
| Some Things You Can Do | |
| A Final Note: The P-38 "Glacier Girl" | |
| Further Reading | p. 395 |
| Notes | p. 397 |
| Index | p. 453 |
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