The Inquisition Of Climate Science
by James Lawrence Powell /
2011 / English / PDF
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Modern science is under the greatest and most successful attack
in recent history. An industry of denial, abetted by news media
and "info-tainment" broadcasters more interested in selling
controversy than presenting facts, has duped half the American
public into rejecting the facts of climate science -- an
overwhelming body of rigorously vetted scientific evidence
showing that human-caused, carbon-based emissions are linked to
warming the Earth. The industry of climate science denial is
succeeding: public acceptance has declined even as the scientific
evidence for global warming has increased. It is vital that the
public understand how anti-science ideologues, pseudo-scientists,
and non-scientists have bamboozled them. We cannot afford to get
global warming wrong -- yet we are, thanks to deniers and their
methods.
Modern science is under the greatest and most successful attack
in recent history. An industry of denial, abetted by news media
and "info-tainment" broadcasters more interested in selling
controversy than presenting facts, has duped half the American
public into rejecting the facts of climate science -- an
overwhelming body of rigorously vetted scientific evidence
showing that human-caused, carbon-based emissions are linked to
warming the Earth. The industry of climate science denial is
succeeding: public acceptance has declined even as the scientific
evidence for global warming has increased. It is vital that the
public understand how anti-science ideologues, pseudo-scientists,
and non-scientists have bamboozled them. We cannot afford to get
global warming wrong -- yet we are, thanks to deniers and their
methods.The Inquisition of Climate Science
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.
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.
