Comments on: Climate Change Reading and Resources https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/09/15/climate-change-reading-and-resources/ Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:06:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Lionel A https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/09/15/climate-change-reading-and-resources/#comment-821598 Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:06:01 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32360#comment-821598 There has been push-back against Extinction Rebellion from the usual suspects by promulgating a document titled ‘There is No Climate Emergency’, it kicks off with a lie and that is how it goes for two pages out of 19 with most being the list of the 500 names of signatories, so called scientists or professionals.

Richard Lindzen, Tm Ball, Joseph D’aleo, David Deming, Freeman Dyson, Patrick J Michaels and Willie Soon stick out amongst the US contingent although is not Tim Ball strictly Canadian.

After a page of tilts against climate science as understood it descends into the Lomborgian:

Our advice to political leaders is
that science should strive for a
significantly better understanding
of the climate system, while
politics should focus on minimizing
potential climate damage by
prioritizing adaptation strategies
based on proven and affordable
technologies.

There has been two good responses so far:

More than 500 people misunderstand climate change from Real Climate

and linked from within the above:

Letter signed by “500 scientists” relies on inaccurate claims about climate science from Climate Feedback.

]]> By: Jeffh https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/09/15/climate-change-reading-and-resources/#comment-815750 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 12:21:52 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32360#comment-815750 Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Global Warming by Nathaniel Rich. A riveting read.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/09/15/climate-change-reading-and-resources/#comment-815745 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 12:11:13 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32360#comment-815745 Thanks for the suggestions. I got about a dozen other suggestions via email, and I’ve got more of my own. I’m going to make a better formatted and more complete set of resources, and post that here and on the DFL Environmental Caucus blog.

Please post more suggestions if you have them!

]]> By: BBD https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/09/15/climate-change-reading-and-resources/#comment-810460 Fri, 20 Sep 2019 10:30:04 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32360#comment-810460 Peter Brannen’s The Ends of the World is a good, up-to-date and highly readable treatment of what perturbations of the carbon cycle (and a bolide impact) have done to biodiversity in the past. Highly recommended.

]]> By: Christopher Winter https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/09/15/climate-change-reading-and-resources/#comment-810310 Fri, 20 Sep 2019 04:14:50 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32360#comment-810310 I’ve posted this before, but not in the segmented version.

It’s a bibliography of many books related to climate change.

http://www.chris-winter.com/Digressions/AGW/CC_Books/Cli_Boox_Hdr.html

]]> By: Lionel A https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/09/15/climate-change-reading-and-resources/#comment-809625 Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:46:13 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32360#comment-809625 All useful titles (I have copies of each except the last) especially those exposing the deniers and their backers.

Here is my current list of titles, in no particular order, that describe denial, its propagators and financial backing. For which latter Jane Mayer’s excellent book ‘Dark Money’ should be added, perhaps.

‘The Inquisition of Climate Science’

James Lawrence Powell

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‘Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth’s Climate’

Stephen H Schneider

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‘Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity’

James Hansen

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‘The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines’

Michael E Mann

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‘Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming’

Mark Bowen

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‘Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand’

Haydn Washington & John Cook

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‘Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco’

Naomi Oreskes & Eric M Conway

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‘Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming’

James Hoggan and Richard Littlemore

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‘The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth’

Eric Pooley

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‘Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America’

Shawn Lawrence Otto

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‘The War on Science: Who’s Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do about It’

Shawn Otto

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‘Climatology Versus Pseudoscience: Exposing the Failed Predictions of Global Warming Skeptics’

Dana Nuccitelli

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‘Global Warming and Political Intimidation’

Raymond S Bradley

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But there is more:

Robert Brulle has done much to expose the donor links to the anti science propaganda effort, follow the ‘The full paper is available here
‘ link at the foot of that article.

See http://drexel.edu/now/experts/Overview/brulle-robert/ for more.

John Mashey is another who has done sterling work in uncovering the money trails as well as assisting, along with DeepClimate, with the demolition of The Wegman Report also shedding additional unfavourable light on the activities of Steve McIntyre & co.

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