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The Real Global Warming Disaster

Is the Obsession with 'Climate Change' Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History?

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The Real Global Warming Disaster

By: Christopher Booker
Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
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This original audiobook considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe from runaway global warming, and how today this has persuaded politicians to land us with what promises to be the biggest bill in history.

Christopher Booker interweaves the science of global warming with that of its growing political consequences, showing how just when the politicians are threatening to change our Western way of life beyond recognition, the scientific evidence behind the global warming theory is being challenged like never before.

The audiobook exposes the myth that the global warming theory is supported by a 'consensus of the world's top climate scientists'. It shows how the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is run by a small group of 'global warming' zealots, who have repeatedly rigged evidence to support their theory. But the politicians, pushed by the media, have so fallen for its propaganda that, short of dramatic change, our Western world now faces an unprecedented disaster.

©2009, 2010 Christopher Booker (P)2013 Audible Inc. Atmospheric Science Earth Sciences Politics & Government Science Polar Region Pollution

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An outstanding demolition of the climate-change superstructure. We read of deception, prejudice, ad hominem arguments and much worse in the building of a religious edifice involving scientific malpractice, journalistic disingenuity, political ignorance, corporate avarice and academic selfishness.

Superb

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I wish that I had read this book 10 years ago. It has filled the missing piece of a jigsaw puzzle. A nagging doubt that was hidden by a black hole of missing information. I have made a note to revisit it in 6 months for a top up. Wow

The best book so far this year - out of 50!

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An excellent by the numbers destruction of climate alarmism. A truly great and brave man.

Masterpiece of journalism.

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shocked yet simultaneously not surprised that global warming is a huge global campaign of misinformation... make no mistake - this isn't the age of information - it's the age of misinformation. Almost everyone is almost completely wrong about most things it seems. You have to dig hard to find the truth. And most of us just don't have the time. But the "co2 is a pollutant" scam shouldn't be tolerated. People can't afford their energy bills while the world's real environmental crises are getting ignored in favour of a fake existential threat.... no, CO2 isn't the enemy - you should be worrying about deforestation, overfishing, general pollution and soul-destroying extractive agriculture... Read or listen to this book. also read "sacred cow" for what a sustainable diet really means (no it doeant mean veganism btw) and also read the 1969 lecture given by Dr buteyko to Moscow state University (on how functional breathing resolves most chronic diseases of the modern era -- it did mine....)

this book should be mandatory reading for humans

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What did you like most about The Real Global Warming Disaster?

The book examines the skeptic view which has been outlawed by the climate warming orthodoxy. It explains how the many counter arguments put forward by academic scientists are ignored by politicians despite the logic of many of the arguments and shunned by broadcasters and news owners/journalists who seem to almost enjoy the lack of impartiality in reporting climate change, like as if it is a football team.

What did you like best about this story?

The book disputes that there is a man made climate change = catastrophe consensus.

Any additional comments?

The book adds some weight to the argument that our views about supposed AGW and the surrounding governmental policies need to be reconsidered.

Refreshing look at the skeptic view

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Belief in evidence is what counts. Don't like Trump, didn't like Thatcher but at least they didn’t allow puppets to pull the strings.

Booker the Brave

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This book is a very clear summary of why climate deniers think that climate change is not real. I really can't thank the author enough for presenting his points so clearly that I can rip them apart. The logical fallacies he uses are clearly presented where he tries to demonize the word "consensus" and frames climate scientists working together as a conspiracy while climate deniers working together is unification. The author tries very hard to convince the reader that all the tactics of the oil companies - lobbying, tax breaks, subsides, obfuscation of data - are actually the tactics of the climate scientists. It's a very convincing argument to anyone who goes no deeper, but even some brief research would find the Swiss cheese like holes in this book. For example, the fact that it snows somewhere in the world does not mean that climate change is fake. I lost count of how many times the author felt the need to mention that it snowed when certain climate events were happening. Also, the author mentions Antarctic sea ice is growing when it's actually the land ice that's shrinking and that's the ice that should stay where it is all year! Al Gore's lifestyle is a favourite target as if a businessman's lifestyle or parents (how can he control that) makes anything he says less true. I could go on, but I would be taking away from your fun. In 2020 when bush fires have ravaged Australia and California and Africa is on the verge of famine, this all rings very hollow. The author briefly acknowledges that there ARE environmental problems, just not caused by climate change. He also posits no solution to anything. I assume in the absence of any useful talent and a desire for publicity, the author did the only thing he could which was to get in the way of real profit. A real eye opener into the seedy underbelly of humanity. The reader did an excellent job.

A brilliant summary of climate denier rubbish

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I have read many books saying climate change IS happening and some that say it is not. I am still undecided. But feel i am in a better position for listening to this book. The criticism of the make up of the IPCC in particular is worrying. If you ONLY read one side of an arguement, how can you say you have made a CONSIDERED decision?

Well worth a listen

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If global warming turns out to have been more of a political pushed agenda than a scientific consensus then this account will be the ultimate: you were warned moment. It is difficult not to be all out convinced that global warming as a man made phenomenon is a purely political agenda. This is the books weakest side as well. The opposite view is almost always narrated as not so benevolent as the sceptics.

Masterful run through of the sceptical view

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No fair-minded reader could possibly doubt the truth of this book: the promised catastrophic Armageddon due to man made global warming is an expensive, dangerous lie

Fascinating and factual.

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