I came across a couple of mentions about a book which I added to our PTBC Amazon.com page, called “Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science”. So I’m guessing it’s worth the $14-odd bucks (Canadian —and that’s a good discount off the $25 cover price) to buy it and add it to our growing and already huge arsenal of knowledge and actual facts about the “man-made global warming”.
David Warren mentions this book today in his column, “A buyer’s market”, posted here at PTBC, in which he writes that Plimer “does the best job I’ve seen of showing that the premise behind all the government-commissioned studies is knowingly false. For it can be demonstrated that, above 50 parts per million, carbon dioxide accumulations do not heat the atmosphere at all.”
And I read an excellent — and brave — column about it by a Vancouver Sun columnist, Jonathan Manthorpe, yesterday (brave because Manthorpe seems to dare to agree with at least the basis of the arguments — if not also the facts — expressed in the book).
Here’s what he wrote in part:
Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites
Ian Plimer has outraged the ayatollahs of purist environmentalism, the Torquemadas of the doctrine of global warming, and he seems to relish the damnation they heap on him.
Plimer is a geologist, professor of mining geology at Adelaide University, and he may well be Australia’s best-known and most notorious academic.
Plimer, you see, is an unremitting critic of “anthropogenic global warming”—man-made climate change to you and me—and the current environmental orthodoxy that if we change our polluting ways, global warming can be reversed.
It is, of course, not new to have a highly qualified scientist saying that global warming is an entirely natural phenomenon with many precedents in history. Many have made the argument, too, that it is rubbish to contend human behaviour is causing the current climate change. And it has often been well argued that it is totally ridiculous to suppose that changes in human behaviour—cleaning up our act through expensive slight-of-hand taxation tricks—can reverse the trend.
But most of these scientific and academic voices have fallen silent in the face of environmental Jacobinism. Purging humankind of its supposed sins of environmental degradation has become a religion with a fanatical and often intolerant priesthood, especially among the First World urban elites.
But Plimer shows no sign of giving way to this orthodoxy and has just published the latest of his six books and 60 academic papers on the subject of global warming. This book, Heaven and Earth—Global Warming: The Missing Science, draws together much of his previous work. It springs especially from A Short History of Plant Earth, which was based on a decade of radio broadcasts in Australia. …
We know the facts must be there, because the liberal-left is outraged by Plimer and his book, and are seeking to silence him on the ever so scientific basis that “the science is settled” and “the debate is over”.
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