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An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming
by Nigel Lawson
2008 Apr
In this cautious and reasoned treatise on an issue that effects each and every one of us, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson, argues that it is time to take a cooler look at global warming. Lord Lawson looks at the facts behind the headlines and explains that science is only part of the story.
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The Nature of Britain
by Alan Titchmarsh
2007 Sep
The book of the BBC TV series.
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Scared to Death
From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth
by Christopher Booker and Richard North
2007 Nov
“This brilliant expose of some of the most destructive delusions of our time should be compulsory reading for everyone (particularly journalists and politicians) and if people took heed the world would suddenly become a better place.” James Delingpole
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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
by Bjørn Lomborg
2007 Sep
Lomborg argues we need to look at the cost and benefits of the proposed measures against global warming. He demonstrates that drastic, here-and-now measures is the worst way to spend our money. Climate change is a 100-year problem - we should not try to fix it in 10 years.
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Human Impacts on Weather and Climate
by William R. Cotton and Roger A. Pielke
2007 Feb
The natural variability of weather and climate greatly complicates our ability to determine a clear cause-and-effect relationship to human activity. The authors describe the basic theories and critique them in simple and accessible terms.
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming & Environmentalism
Christopher C. Horner
2007 Feb
This book puts all the contrary opinion in one place and explains in easy to understand language why the notion that we're all going to die unless we surrender our money and liberties to our government to stop climate change is a myth.
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The Chilling Stars
A New Theory of Climate Change
Henrik Svensmark, Nigel Calder
2007 Feb
Recommended by the ABD
This book turns on its head the notion that global warming is due solely to carbon dioxide emissions. Instead, it posits the idea that sub-atomic particles from exploded stars play a key role in the formation of clouds, which subsequently affect the temperature of the Earth, while the activity of the Sun determines how many of these particles reach us.
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Eco-Freaks: Environmentalism Is Hazardous to Your Health!
John Berlau
2006 Nov
Award-winning journalist John Berlau explores the myriad ways in which shortsighted environmentalism actually endangers trees, wildlife, and people.
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Unstoppable Global Warming
Every 1500 Years
Fred Singer, Dennis Avery
2006 Oct
Recommended by the ABD
Singer and Avery present, in popular language and supported by in-depth scientific evidence, the compelling concept that global temperatures have been rising mostly or entirely because of a natural cycle. "Unstoppable Global Warming" explains why we're warming, why it's not very dangerous, and why we can't stop it anyway.
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Shattered Consensus
The True State of Global Warming
Patrick J. Michaels
2005 Aug
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The Bottomless Well
The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy
Peter Huber
2005 Feb
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State of Fear
Michael Crichton
2004 Dec
A thriller about eco-terrorists by the author of Jurassic Park.
In extensive appendices and a bibliography, Crichton draws parallels between the belief in global warming and the theory of eugenics — which led to the holocaust; the claims of Lysenko — that led to famine in the Soviet Union and killed millions; and the belief in witchcraft — that justified the brutal murder of tens of thousands of people in the sixteenth century.
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Meltdown
The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media
Patrick J. Michaels
2004 Nov
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Global Crises, Global Solutions:
Priorities for a World of Scarcity
Edited by Bjørn Lomborg
2004 Oct
A unique publication exploring the opportunities for addressing ten of the most serious challenges facing the world today.
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Climate Alarmism Reconsidered
Robert L. Bradley Jr.
2003 Aug
A robust examination and critique of statist solutions to energy and environmental problems.
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Eco-nomics:
Everything You Need to Know About Economics and the Environment
Richard L. Stroup
2003 May
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A Poverty of Reason
Sustainable Development & Economic Growth
Wilfred Beckerman
2002 Dec
"A short, witty, stinging review of sustainability, climate change, and the precautionary principle by an Oxford economist and former member of the Royal Commisson on Environmental Pollution who cares more about the poor of the world than he does the elitist egos of Western environmentalists" — Michael Crichton, Bibliography to State of Fear
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Global Warming and Other Eco Myths:
How the Environmental Movement Uses False Science to Scare Us to Death
Ronald Bailey
2002 Dec
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Karl Popper
2002 Mar
“A proposition or theory cannot be considered scientific if it does not admit the possibility of being shown false.”
“One of the most important documents of the twentieth century” — Peter Medawar, New Scientist
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The Skeptical Environmentalist
Bjørn Lomborg
2001 Aug
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Hard Green
Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists — A Conservative Manifesto
Peter Huber
2001 Jan
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The Satanic Gases
Clearing the Air About Global Warming
Patrick J. Michaels, Robert C. Balling, Robert C. Balling Jr
2000 July
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Don't Die Young
Dr Alice Roberts
2007 Jan
The book of the BBC TV series
“There is an ocean of information and mis-information out there, which can sometimes make it difficult to find out which life and dietary factors are the most important for keeping healthy. I've waded through part of the morass to find advice that is based on good science and firm evidence.”
ABD Review
In this easily readable and well illustrated book, anatomist Dr Alice Roberts of Channel's 4 Time Team, and the BBC's Coast programme, takes a scientific view of human health which is refreshingly free of the nannying mentality prevalent in so many books of a similar genre.
Rather than lecture you about what you shouldn't eat and tell you what you shouldn't do, Alice explains what effect certain foods and activities have on your body and leaves you to make your own mind up.
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