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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 577
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Region Code: 504
Total External Bays Free: July 25, 2009
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Climate, sea level, and ice sheets have always changed, and the changes observed today are less than those of the past. Climate changes are cyclical and are driven by the Earth's position in the galaxy, the sun, wobbles in the Earth's orbit, ocean currents, and plate tectonics. In previous times, atmospheric carbon dioxide was far higher than at present but did not drive climate change. No runaway greenhouse effect or acid oceans occurred during times of excessively high carbon dioxide. During past glaciations, carbon dioxide was higher than it is today. The non-scientific popular political view is that humans change climate. Do we have reason for concern about possible human-induced climate change?
This book's 504 pages and over 2,300 references to peer-reviewed scientific literature and other authoritative sources engagingly synthesize what we know about the sun, earth, ice, water, and air. Importantly, in a parallel to his 1994 book challenging creation science, Telling Lies for God, Ian Plimer describes Al Gore's book and movie An Inconvenient Truth as long on scientific misrepresentations. Trying to deal with these misrepresentations is somewhat like trying to argue with creationists, he writes, who misquote, concoct evidence, quote out of context, ignore contrary evidence, and create evidence ex nihilo.
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Ian Plimer is a famous Australian scientist, who has written several science best-sellers down under. His speciality is geology and earth sciences. In this five hundred page book, with 2300 footnotes to peer-reviewed science, he demolishes the theory that human release of carbon dioxide is causing catastrophic global warming.
His technique is simple and exhaustive. In a series of chapters with simple, one-word title he relates the relevant science. He starts with earth history. ... Read More
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Heaven and Earth is an impressive polemic. Ian Plimer brings impressive scientific and academic credentials to this argument. Plimer contends that human activities are not affecting the Earth's climate. He makes a number of legitimate points that few open-minded people would dispute: climate models are flawed, many climate scientists are acting unethically (for proof see Climategate), and co2 is not a poison. He makes a point that the physicist Freeman Dyson also makes in his excellent book The Scientist ... Read More
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Two-time Eureka Prize winning geologist Ian Plimer exercises his razor sharp intellect to disembowel the global warming behemoth. No author I have read provides a more incisive intellectually and factually sound deconstruction of the global warming myth.
However, much of the good that Plimer does in this book is undone in his closing lengthy diatribe against creationists. Plimer works feverishly, at the end of the book, to accuse the God-denying scientific community of succumbing to the same ... Read More
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First class science, because of the numerous scientific facts and figures with sources mentioned. Because of that it is sometimes not easy to read but worthwhile to put through. And halfway it contains a proposition which can be falsified within 10 years!
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An interesting academic exercise of twisting and misrepresentation of facts, but ultimately could have been written by a polemical teenage student for all its ranting. There is one minor issue, Plimer is just completely wrong. At least writing this pseudo-science makes him rich at the expense of radical right, which is the only purpose of this book. Like tobacco companies before them, latter day business will lie and do anything (including commissioning books such as this were the conclusion is decided before ... Read More
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