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The inquisition of climate science / James Lawrence Powell.

by Powell, James Lawrence, 1936-

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New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.

Global warming.

Climatic changes.

9780231157186 (alk. paper)

0231157185 (alk. paper)

9780231527842 (ebook)

0231527845 (ebook)

x, 232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Science and potemkin science -- Adventure in Denierland -- The evidence for consensus -- Discovery of global warming -- The greenhouse effect : from curiosity to threat -- Globalwarming: all you really need to know in one chart -- Tobacco tactics: the scientist-deniers -- Fear of state: the nonscientists -- Toxic tanks -- An industry to trust -- Balance as bias: how the media missed "the story of the century" -- Science under attack -- Greatest hoax in history -- Climategate: much ado about nothing -- Anatomy of denial -- Escalating tactics -- Earning trust.

The Inquisition of Climate Science is the first book to comprehensively take on the climate science denial movement and the deniers themselves, exposing their lack of credentials, their extensive industry funding, and their failure to provide any alternative theory to explain the observed evidence of warming. In this book, readers meet the most prominent deniers while dissecting their credentials, arguments, and lack of objectivity. James Lawrence Powell shows that the deniers use a wide variety of deceptive rhetorical techniques, many stretching back to ancient Greece. Carefully researched, fully referenced, and compellingly written, his book clearly reveals that the evidence of global warming is real and that an industry of denial has deceived the American public, putting them and their grandchildren at risk."--pub. desc.

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