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“Climate Confusion” by Roy W. Spencer

The focus of this book is on the uncertainties surrounding climate predictions.

These are due in part to the extreme complexity of the earth’s atmosphere, and in part to the potential for use and abuse of statistics when modeling and interpreting the data. If the computer simulations have to be “adjusted” to give corrected results for today’s climate, how much confidence should be placed in their predictions for the next 100 years?

Dr. Spencer identifies clouds as the least well understood factor in global warming predictions. Nobody knows how clouds respond to changes in atmospheric greenhouse gases. Whereas the models used by the IPCC exhibit positive feedbacks, resulting in alarmist predictions, Spencer and other skeptics think that negative feedbacks predominate, resulting in a moderation, not an amplification, of global warming.

It is widely agreed that globally averaged temperatures have risen by about one degree since pre-industrial days. Beyond that, little can be said with certainty. One important question is how the costs of warming (such as rising sea levels) are likely to compare with the benefits (such as longer growing seasons). Spencer would like market forces to determine what forms of energy are used. CO2 emissions should not be curbed by government policies, for the costs of such policies in higher fuel costs would exceed their benefits; $ billions could be spent with little effect.

In 1988 James Hansen of NASA sounded the global warming alarm, which has for 20 years been amplified by Al Gore and the IPCC with too little opposition. In 2005 the Kyoto Protocol went into effect, but it soon became apparent that the threaty obligations would mainly be met by those signatories that had no obligations!

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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.

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