The inquisition of climate science /

The inquisition of climate science /

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Author / Creator:Powell, James Lawrence, 1936-
Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, ©2011.
Description:1 online resource (x, 232 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:
Global warming.
Climatic changes.
Climatic changes.
Global warming.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11103555
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ISBN:0231527845
9780231527842
0231157185
9780231157186
9786613261090
6613261092
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: 9780231157186 0231157185
Standard no.:10.7312/powe15718
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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