Appendix: Climate change papers you should read / by David R. Legates. Why don't you learn of climate realism from science journals or mainstream media? / by David R. Legates -- Introduction: Life after climate change--better than before / by E. Calvin Beisner -- The history and politics of "climate change" / by David R. Legates -- The science of climate / by Roy W. Spencer -- Climate models and scientific method / by Patrick J. Michaels ; final editing by John R. Christy -- The role of the sun / by Michael Connolly, Ronan Connolly, and Willie Soon -- The role of the oceans / by Anthony R. Lupo -- The role of evaporation, precipitation, and clouds / by Roy W. Spencer -- The role of greenhouse gases / by David R. Legates -- The holy grail of climate change: quantifying climate sensitivity / by Nicola Scafetta -- Effects of human-induced global warming / by Anthony R. Lupo -- The role of energy in human thriving / by Timothy D. Terrell -- Sources of primary energy / by Robert A. Hefner V -- The energy-climate connection / by Bill Peacock -- Climate change and the economics of an energy transition / by G. Cornelis van Kooten -- How economic thinking can help tackle climate change / by G. Cornelis van Kooten -- Climate and energy policy in the developing world / by Vijay Jayaraj -- Appendix: Climate change papers you should read / by David R. Legates.
Summary:
"[This book] is a ... "heretical" scientific and rational discussion of the issue that affects every person on earth. Fourteen climate scientists, energy engineers, and environmental economists, along with a theologian, offer a rigorous discussion of: the real causes of "global warming"; how sensitive the climate actually is to greenhouse gases; how the sun, oceans, clouds, and rain play a key role in climate change; the benefits of human-generated CO2; why the abandonment of fossil fuels would leave developing countries permanently impoverished and doom millions to an early death; the failure of renewable energies--and the billion-dollar subsidies that fund them; the ethics of climate and energy policy; [and] how climate change may actually leave man better off"--Flap page 1 of dust jacket.
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