HOW TO GET EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL:
A guide to climate change for pupils, parents and punters
Ian Plimer
Foreword by Václav Klaus,
President of the Czech Republic
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Are pupils, parents and the public being fed political propaganda on climate change? Now is your chance to find out. Professor Plimer gives 101 simple questions with answers for you to ask teachers, activists, journalists and politicians. The climate industry adjusts the temperature record and withholds raw
data, computer codes and information from scrutiny. Computer predictions
of a scary future don’t agree with measurements. Past natural climate changes have been larger and more rapid than the worst case predictions yet humans adapted. Is human-induced global warming the biggest financial and scientific scam in history? If it is, we will pay dearly.
About the author
PROFESSOR IAN PLIMER (The University of Adelaide) is Australia’s
best-known geologist. He is also Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences at
The University of Melbourne where he was Professor and Head of Earth
Sciences (1991-2005) after serving at The University of Newcastle
(1985-1991) as Professor and Head of Geology. He was on the staff of the
University of New England, The University of New South Wales and
Macquarie University. He has published more than 120 scientific papers
on geology. This is his eighth book written for the general public, the
best known of which are
Telling lies for God (Random House),
Milos-Geologic History (Koan),
A Short History of Planet Earth (ABC
Books) and his best-selling
Heaven+Earth (Connor Court).
He won the Leopold von Buch Plakette (German Geological Society), Clarke
Medal (Royal Society of NSW), Sir Willis Connolly Medal (Australasian
Institute of Mining and Metallurgy), was elected Fellow of the
Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and was
elected Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of London. In 1995, he
was Australian Humanist of the Year and later was awarded the Centenary
Medal. He was Managing Editor of Mineralium Deposita, president of the
SGA, president of IAGOD, president of the Australian Geoscience Council
and sat on the Earth Sciences Committee of the Australian Research
Council for many years. He won the Eureka Prize for the promotion of
science, the Eureka Prize for A Short History of Planet Earth and the
Michael Daley Prize (now a Eureka Prize) for science broadcasting. He is
an advisor to governments and corporations and a regular broadcaster.
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
PREAMBLE FOR PUPILS, PARENTS AND PUNTERS
INTRODUCTION
1. HUMAN-INDUCED CLIMATE CHANGE: WHY I AM SCEPTICAL
A short history of planet Earth
What warming?
Follow the money
Corruption, fraud and porky pies
Snow, ice, floods and cyclones
Fellow travellers
2. SCIENCE
The process of science
Evolution of scientific ideas
Models, predictions and adaptation
Anti science
3. CARBON DIOXIDE, WATER AND ICE
Planetary degassing and carbon dioxide
An innocent trace gas
Another innocent trace gas
Water and ice
Sea level
4. TEMPERATURE
How do we measure global temperature?
Urban effect
Adjusting of measurements
Hottest year on record
5. HOW TO GET EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL
Background
Is climate change normal?
One hundred and one questions.
A guide for teachers, parents and punters
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This product was added to our catalog on Friday 16 September, 2011.