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| Author | Lawrence Solomon |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Deniers: The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud**And those who are fearful to do so |
| Cover artist | Charles Bork |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Richard Vigilante Books |
| Publication date | 2008-04-01 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 239 |
| ISBN | ISBN 9780980076318 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
The Deniers: The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud is a book by Lawrence Solomon, a Canadian writer and columnist for the National Post, newspaper based in Ontario. Solomon argues that even though most scientists agree that anthropogenic global warming is real, he highlights the views of those scientists who dissent, the so called “The Deniers”. The book profiles and presents the arguments of these individuals he calls "renowned scientists," against what Solomon defines as the "alarmist" view of global warming, as presented by Al Gore, the IPCC and the mainstream media.
Overview
According to Solomon, he began his search for reputable dissident scientist and published the findings in his column in the National Post which began in November 2006. The book is based on these series of articles, and questions the consensus that the “science is settled”. The book highlights alleged flaws in the consensus theory and presents discussion and criticisms, among others regarding the Hockey stick controversy; the Stern Review; hurricane frequency and intensity; the lack of signs of global warming in Antarctica's climate; reservations on the predictability of climate models and its lack of falsifiability; the Singer-Revelle-Gore controversy; and the alternate solar variation theory, regarding the hypotheses of the warming being driven by the interaction of the solar wind with cosmic rays affecting cloud formation. Each chapter includes end notes with proper references and website addresses.
The scientists whose scientific work and opinions are profiled in the book are, in order of appearance in the book’s chapters: Edward Wegman, Richard Tol, Christopher Landsea, Duncan Wingham, Robert M. Carter, Richard Lindzen, Vincent R. Gray, Syun-Ichi Akasofu, Tom Segalstad, Nir Shaviv, Zbigniew Jaworowski, Hendrik Tennekes, Freeman Dyson, Antonino Zichichi, David Bromwich, Eigil Friis-Christensen, Henrik Svensmark, Sami Solanki, Jasper Kirkby, Habibullo Abdussamatov, George Kukla, the late Rhodes Fairbridge, William M. Gray, Cliff Ollier, Paul Reiter, Claude Allègre, the late Reid Bryson, David Bellamy, and the caution position of the late Roger Revelle. A brief curriculum vitae for each scientist is presented. In the final chapter, Mr. Solomon presents his personal point of view on this controversy. At least five of the scientists profiled in the book also appeared in the controversial British documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, they are Lindzen, Reiter, Akasofu, Shaviv, and Friis-Christensen (who has since said his results were misused in the programme)..
As of July 22, 2008, the American Amazon store ranks "The Deniers" sales as 712 overall, 4th in both Scientists and Public Policy, and as 6th in Environmental Science books; the Amazon.ca store ranks the book sales as 145 overall, and as first in Environmental Science books; and the Amazon.co.uk store ranks the book overall sales as 9,743, and as 4th in Science books.
Reviews
On the The Washington Times, Shawn Macomber said:
"The Deniers" is a timely, necessary antidote to a political and scientific discussion poisoned by hubristic groupthink and the kind of scorched earth (mis)behavior that inevitably arises when a movement becomes so uncritically wedded to the commandments of a pseudo-religion its adherents would rather destroy their adversaries than risk debating them.
— The Washington Times,
On The Vancouver Sun, Mark Milke book review said:
The "deniers" and The Deniers matter because the book is about the search for scientific explanations for a complex phenomenon by eminent scientists in a better position than most to judge whether a consensus exists on global warming. Their collective verdict, much varied in the particulars, is "No."
— The Vancouver Sun,
A rebuttal was published a week later, by Richard Littlemore saying that:
The problem is that Solomon's "deniers" don't actually deny climate change. They quibble about the details... Solomon says there are quibblers. He's right. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there's only a 90-plus-per-cent likelihood that global warming endangers the world as we know it.
— The Vancouver Sun,
On Forbes.com, George Gilder wrote:
For investors who know that human-caused global warming is hokum, as proved by the new book The Deniers by Lawrence Solomon, this is a supreme moment of contrarian upside promise.
— Forbes.com,
Scientific criticism
Some of the scientists profiled by Solomon in the original National Post's "The Deniers" series complained. Through a press release, Nigel Weiss "rebutted claims that a fall in solar activity could somehow compensate for the man-made causes of global warming." The National Post published an apology and withdrew any allegation that Dr. Weiss is a global warming "denier". Stephen McIntyre, one of the authors questioning the validity of the hockey stick graph, protested to Solomon for labeling him as a "Denier".
References
- Lawrence Solomon. "Series "The Deniers"". National Post. Retrieved 2008-07-15.
- ^ Lawrence Solomon. "Series "The Deniers"". National Post. Retrieved 2008-07-22.
- Nathan Rive and Eigil Friis-Christensen (2007-04-27). "Regarding: "The Great Global Warming Swindle", broadcast in the UK on Channel 4 on March 8, 2007". Authors statement on the folk.uio.no site. Retrieved 2008-07-15.
- "The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud**And those who are fearful to do so (Hardcover)". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2008-07-22.
U.S. Amazon.com Sales Rank: #712 in Books as of 2008-07-22
- "The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud**And those (Hardcover)". Amazon.ca. Retrieved 2008-07-22.
Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #145 in Books as of 2008-07-22
- "Deniers, The (Hardcover)". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-07-22.
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9,743 as of 2008-07-22
- Shawn Macomber (2008-05-06). "The climate change deniers". The Washington Times. Retrieved 2008-07-15.
- Mark Milke (2008-05-09). "'The Deniers' details flaws in the theories on global warming". The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 2008-07-15.
- Richard Littlemore (2008-05-15). "Climate change denier at least admits he's playing a game". The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 2008-07-20.
- George Gilder (2008-04-30). "When Moore Meets Metcalfe". Forbes.com. Retrieved 2008-07-15.
- Nigel Weiss (2007-02-07). "Climate change is chiefly man-made". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 2008-07-20.
- Lawrence Solomon (2007-02-07). "Will the sun cool us?: Apology To Dr. Nigel Weiss". National Post. Retrieved 2008-07-20.
- Steve McIntyre (2007-02-08). "Lawrence Solomon series in National Post". Climate Audit. Retrieved 2008-07-20.
External links
Lawrence Solomon, National Post’s Series “The Deniers”
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