A GUIDE TO CLIMATE CHANGE LUNACY
bad forecasting, terrible solutions
Mark LawsonPaperback, 286 pages Release Date July 26thISBN: 9781921421426
Activists
and even some scientists will
tell you that the science behind the expected major warming of the globe is
rock solid. In fact, the projections of temperature increases in coming decades
are based on entirely unproven forecasting systems which depend on guesses
about crucial aspects of the atmosphere behaviour and the all-important oceans.
In addition, these forecasts use carbon dioxide emission scenarios that have
been generated by economic calculations rather than from science, and parts of
which are already hopelessly wrong less than a decade after they were made.
As
Mark Lawson explains in this book, in layman’s language, this lunacy has been
compounded by further forecasts based on these already deeply flawed projections
and combined with active imaginations, to produce wild statements about what
will happen to plant, animal, bird and marine life, as well as coral reefs,
hurricanes, sea levels, agriculture and polar ice caps. The books shows that
these projections are little more than fantasy.
On
top of all this lunacy activists, aided and abetted by some scientists, have
proposed a range of solutions to the supposed problem that are either never
going to work, such as an international agreement to cut emissions, or are
overly complicated and expensive for no proven return, such as carbon trading
systems and wind energy. None of these proposals have been shown to be of any
use in reducing carbon emissions, outside of theoretical studies. Where wind
energy has been used in substantial amounts overseas the sole, known result has
been very expensive electricity for no observed saving in emissions.
Mark Lawson is a senior journalist on the
Australian Financial Review. He has a science degree from Melbourne University,
and has been a science writer, editorial writer and Perth bureau chief for the
Review. He now edits a series of reports for the AFR, including environmental
reports.
This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 14 April, 2010.