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| Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor | 
 enlarge | Author: Roy Spencer
Publisher: Encounter Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  82 reviews
Sales Rank: 1930
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 184
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1
ISBN: 1594032106
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.73874
EAN: 9781594032103
ASIN: 1594032106
Publication Date: March 27, 2008
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 Clamate Confusion August 25, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Easy reading analysis of a very complex situation. The message is very enlightening - "manmade global warming is a hoax".
I recommend this book who is truly interested in facts about our climate and its effect on the planet.
Global Warming , fact or myth August 27, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a very well written book that is easy to read and understand by the average person that is not educated in weather. This book gives facts about weather and related subjects by informed professionals that don't have a political agenda and want to know the truth.
Thanks for this book.
Jerry Bratcher
Telling the truth behind the Global Warming RELIGION September 13, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
As one person who believes we should reduce pollution for the betterment of our lives, but does not believe in the hysteria of Global Warming as the Al Gores of the media and entertainment believe, it is refreshing to FINALLY get a clear understanding of the this MADE-UP religion of lies and scare tactics na dbad political pandering.
I always knew from a young age that the environment and its system of controls will always balance out and that man, even though he has the power to alter his environment, does not have as significant an impact as is believed. To assume that we have that kind of power is placing humans on a even level with the universe or God if you want.
Roy Spencer takes the reader though a basic understanding of climate models and how they could never acurately model a complex system like the earths due to the shear fact of multiple variables that effect each other, regardless if science was able to model a single elemnt of the system preceisley. He ties the environmental movement to econmic greed and shows how thes environmentalists use gaining more money and power to push junk science and misinfomation to the public in the form of fear and ridicule.
Spencer tells the reader how most scientist actually believe that global climate change is not happeneing, but if they stray too far from the dogma, they are ostricized and shuned. He shows how entrenched the environmentalists are with the media, politics and educational system, and how with that power, they control what people hear and think.
This is a great read and easy for anybody to understand. I highly recommend this book and have done so already.
climate confusion September 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is one of those books once you open the cover you put it down when you get to the back cover, I have been suggesting to everyone I know to read this book.
 Well-stated from this former Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA. October 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Roy Spencer presents a well-stated and reasoned defense for the "deniers" of global warming, although he does not deny the globe is warming, he denies that we can definitively lay it at the feet of hydrocarbon emissions. The greatest strength of this book is its readability - Spencer has a great sense of humor and lets it shine throughout - he reminds me of Dave Berry quite a bit.
Spencer cites the difficulty in creating computer-based climate models and the difficulty in understanding all of the relationships between the myriad of variables that come together to create the ill-understood phenomenon we call weather. For example, as has been oft-noted by Al Gore, Carbon Dioxide levels have risen in the last century. Spencer notes that we have no idea what that exactly means for the global climate. Will water vapor increase due to an increase in global temperatures? Will the system self-regulate, or have a cascade effect (which Spencer seriously doubts, as do I) as depicted in Art Bell's The Coming Global Superstorm?
In reality, we don't know and can't really know because we cannot run accurate climate models. We don't understand or even know all of the variables. What we do know is that temperatures fluctuate - they go up and they go down. There is no "perfect" average temperature for our planet.
Spencer's weakest chapter is actually a well-written treatise on basic economics. He looks at cost-benefit analysis and the concept of diminishing returns, but the chapter feels out of place and slows the pace of the book.
Spencer also addresses the Kyoto Treaty but this is done better in other similar works, specifically The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) by Chris Horner. Spencer also talks about the idea that modern environmentalism is more a faith than a science. Spencer does a good job but Iain Murray does a better job in his book The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About--Because They Helped Cause Them. If you read all three of them you should have a well-rounded summary of the main arguments.
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