Meltdown The Predictable Distortion of Global

An eminently readable and often humorous critique, Meltdown documents hundreds of exaggerations from scientists, politicians and the media, and ties them together with the common thread of rational self-interest.

Patrick J. Michaels is research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute

Epigraph

vii

Foreword

1

(8)

An Introduction to Global Warming

9

(24)

Meltdown? The Truth about Icecaps

33

(40)

All Creatures Cute and Furry

73

(38)

Spin Cycle: Hurricanes, Tornadoes, and Other Cyclones

111

(16)

Droughts and Floods: Worse and Worse?

127

(36)

A Greener World of Changing Seasons?

163

(16)

Global Warming, Disease, and Death

179

(16)

No Fact Checks, Please!

195

(12)

The ``National Assessment'' Disaster

207

(14)

The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming

221

(16)

Breaking the Cycle

237

(6)

Afterword

243

(6)

References

249

(6)

Index

255

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Meltdown The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media

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