| Description |
xiii, 267 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
A global warming science primer -- Our changing climate history -- Hurricane warning! -- Sea-level rise and the great unfreezing world -- Extreme climate: floods, fires, and droughts -- Climate of death and the death of our climate -- Pervasive bias and climate extremism -- Balancing act: a modest proposal |
| Summary |
"It's a fact that there are fewer citations in the refereed scientific literature providing evidence for the moderate view of global warming, but that's to be expected. In Climate of Extremes, climatologists Patrick J. Michaels and Robert Balling Jr. explain that climate science is hardly unbiased, even though the global climate community itself believes that any new finding has an equal probability of making our climatic future appear more or less dire." |
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"Michaels and Balling examine all aspects of the apocalyptic vision of climate change making headlines every day. This includes news stories on hurricanes being pumped up by global warming, the rapid melting of Greenland and Antarctica causing a sea-level rise of 20 feet over the next 90 years, the increasing pace of global warming, and a swiftly growing number of heat-wave related deaths. Each of these pop-culture icons of climate change turns out to be short on facts and long on exaggeration. People who read Climate of Extremes will emerge well-armed against an army of extremists hawking climate change as the greatest threat ever to our society and way of life."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index |
| Subject |
Global warming.
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Climatic changes.
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| Author |
Balling, Robert C.
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| LC no. |
2008052342 |
| ISBN |
9781933995236 alkaline paper |
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1933995238 alkaline paper |
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