This quite comprehensive book [1] includes all aspects around the climate issue in 21 short, well documented and easily understandable chapters (see content [i] at the end). For non-scientists or individuals with a weak technical orientation this may still be a good read.

It is more than a skeptical book on this subject: it does not only ask questions but provides answers and many facts that disprove the current single-minded beliefs.

Without doubting that climate is changing and that prevalent temperatures went up over the past century, it smashes the allegation of prevalent anthropogenic cause, explains that the Earth climatic system is rather stable, not in a run-away situation, and demonstrates that models used for categorical and oracular statements are biased, not able to reconstruct the recent temperature records, and are therefore invalid.

Also it tells the history of climate alarmism and of the progressive development of international institutions that have been quite successful in establishing an irrefutable dogma, despite of evident contradictions. It points to organized lies and to the willful selection of those more or less scientific observations that may “serve the cause”, and the elimination of those that suggest doubt or are plainly contradicting the preferred theory.

It is a needed but depressing read, because it demonstrates how a pensée unique could develop in the best remake of any totalitarianism, bundling science, pseudo-science, advocacy and politics into a single movement to which all of us should adhere. And when hearing that so-called world leaders, assembled in a G7 meeting last week, have agreed to phase out fossil fuels by the end of the century one can only ask who their guru is and how it is possible to have such a level of confident ignorance at such powerful positions. But the battle order is now confirmed: enemy identified, us, and general mobilization is called against carbon. It doesn’t matter that it is false, unjust and without any other effect than the propagation of poverty.

One chapter is however missing in this book, one topic that, every day, intrigues me more: no discussion is made about the underlying motivations of alarmists and, more important, of their followers. Why is it that a French President or a German Chancellor and so many other high ranking politicians fully adhere to the anthropowarmist theory and to the alleged need –or the moronic proposal- to bring the climate under control? I can understand the alarmist with her need to advert more or less delusory hazards. But I still cannot understand why the whole world political establishment is made of sheep-like followers, incapable even to think that something may be wrong in the claims that IPCC is distilling to them at their request. I would expect from such alpha-beasts that they would ask questions and remain discontent with unreliable answers. But no, they have adopted the mantra: climate science is settled. Even the Pope appears to be contaminated by a gospel that goes much further than his faith that his predecessor was describing as founded in reason.

Why is it so? What do they expect to gain from such a-scientific [2] foolishness? Are they all post-modern irrational human beings who truly believe in a mission to save the planet?

If anyone has a valid insight about this I would be more than happy to get the opportunity to begin to understand why this neo-fascism is now so well ingrained in our societies that any dissenting word –of mine and of many free-thinking individuals– will be considered as morally wrong and hatefully heretic?

[1] Dr John Abbot, Dr Robert M. Carter, Rupert Darwall, James Delingpole, Dr Christopher Essex, Dr Stewart W. Franks, Dr Kesten C. Green, Donna Laframboise, Nigel Lawson, Bernard Lewin, Dr Richard S. Lindzen, Dr Jennifer Marohasy, Dr Ross McKitrick, Dr Patrick J. Michaels, Dr Alan Moran, Jo Nova, Dr Garth W. Paltridge, Dr Ian Plimer, Dr Willie Soon, Mark Steyn, Anthony Watts, Andrew Bolt and Dr J. Scott Armstrong.
First published by the Institute of Public Affairs, Melbourne, Victoria.
Published in 2015 by Stockade Books Box 30, Woodsville, New Hampshire 03785
Printed and bound in the Province of Quebec ISBN: 978-0-9863983-1-5
Print edition out of stock. Kindle edition available at Amazon.com.
[2] If it were scientific it would never be described as settled, it would be mandatory to examine every contradicting evidence, and therefore it would be already dispelled.
But it totally lacks science, disregards it while letting believe that climatology and its models is something superior, therefore the a- prefix, expressing absence of.

[i] Contents:
Introduction
The science of climate change
1           The science and politics of climate change – Ian Plimer
2           Why climate models are failing – Patrick J. Michaels
3           Global warming, models and language – Richard S. Lindzen
4           Sun shunned – Willie Soon
5           The scientific context – Robert M. Carter
6           Forecasting rain – John Abbot & Jennifer Marohasy

The economics and politics of climate change
7           Cool it: an essay on climate change – Nigel Lawson
8           Costing climate change – Alan Moran
9           Experts as ideologues – James Delingpole
10         Uncertainty, scepticism and the climate issue – Garth W. Paltridge
11         The trillion dollar guess and the zombie theory – Jo Nova
12         Forecasting global climate change – Kesten C. Green & J. Scott Armstrong

The climate change movement
13         The search for a global climate treaty – Rupert Darwall
14         The hockey stick: a retrospective – Ross McKitrick
15         The IPCC and the Peace Prize – Donna Laframboise
16         Global warming’s glorious ship of fools – Mark Steyn
17         Cavemen, climate, and computers – Christopher Essex
18         The scientists and the apocalypse – Bernie Lewin
19         The scientific method (and other heresies) – Stewart W. Franks
20         Extreme weather and global warming – Anthony Watts
21         False prophets unveiled – Andrew Bolt

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