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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poorby: Roy Spencer  List Price: $21.95 Amazon.com's Price: $14.93 You Save: $7.02 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 363.73874 EAN: 9781594032103 ISBN: 1594032106 Label: Encounter Books Manufacturer: Encounter Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 184 Publication Date: March 27, 2008 Publisher: Encounter Books Studio: Encounter Books Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The current frenzy over global warming has galvanized the public and cost taxpayers billons of dollars in federal expenditures for climate research. It has spawned Hollywood blockbusters and inspired major political movements. It has given a higher calling to celebrities and built a lucrative industry for scores of eager scientists. In short, ending climate change has become a national crusade. And yet, despite this dominant and sprawling campaign, the facts behind global warming remain as confounding as ever. In Climate Confusion, distinguished climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer observes that our obsession with global warming has only clouded the issue. Forsaking blindingly technical statistics and doomsday scenarios, Dr. Spencer explains in simple terms how the climate system really works, why man's role in global warming is more myth than science, and how the global warming hype has corrupted Washington and the scientific community. The reasons, Spencer explains, are numerous: biases in governmental funding of scientific research, our misconceptions about science and basic economics, even our religious beliefs and worldviews. From Al Gore to Leonardo DiCaprio, the climate change industry has given a platform to leading figures from all walks of life, as pandering politicians, demagogues and biased scientists forge a self-interested movement whose proposed policy initiatives could ultimately devastate the economies of those developing countries they purport to aid. Climate Confusion is a much needed wake up call for all of us on planet earth. Dr. Spencer's clear-eyed approach, combined with his sharp wit and intellect, brings transparency and levity to the issue of global warming as he takes on wrong-headed attitudes and misguided beliefs that have led to our state of panic. Climate Confusion lifts the shroud of mystery that has hovered here for far too long and offers an end to this frenzy of misinformation in our lives. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Full of unbelievably absurd straw-man attacksI find it very astonishing that a book that is so full of totally unbelievable straw-man attacks was written by a "scientist". When planning this review I spent around two hours looking over a copy of this book so that I could form a sample of such attacks that I could show to here. When I did this I found the experience truly amazing. I doubt I've seen a worse book (in this particular way) in my whole life! For example, --In a chapter titled, "It's economics, stupid" Spencer ... Read More Rating:  - Mostly political propaganda"Climate Confusion" is not really about the science or the data on climate change. It does not seem to add much but more confusion to the debate. I gave it a two star rating because it seems to be worth reading to get a slightly different political slant, but it raised my scepticism level to an all time high. If you like loud political debate, this book does present the more "conservative" view. If you are looking for scientific clarity on what is really happening to the ... Read More Rating: - BewareThere is a reason one of the tags on this book is "junk science". Junk science is psuedoscience, or somebody's spin made to look like science, which is exactly what this is. Save your money. Rating:  - Light & Breezy With Much Good But Not ScholarlyThis is an interesting and enjoyable book to read on a "Hot" issue but do not expect a scholarly treatise that presents fact after scientific fact to support the author's points. Rather is an introduction to the subject from the viewpoint of an interested layman (which the author is not -- he's a climatologist). That being said, author Spencer does hit the main, non-technical points, and skewers the elitist environmentalists who have adopted an absolutely rasict approach to solving the world's ... Read More Rating: - Amazing arroganceI expected a book that would discuss the latest thinking on global warming which is that global warming is more a natural than a man made process. What I got was Roy Spencer's personal views of everything from politics, narrow-minded science and philosophy. His book is nothing more than an opportunity to get up on his soap box. Save your money. 
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