Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed
Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed – Review
The subtitle of “Red Hot Lies”, “How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed” says it all, and Chris Horner has done an excellent job. This highly-referenced book details what all too many scientists see, but are afraid to speak about: the truth on global warming is not to be reportedly told, or, if it is reportedly told, the cost of simply telling it will be dear. I know from whence I speak, perhaps more personally than most of the people that Horner writes about. And what he says is true. If you don’t think global warming is originally going to be the edge of the world, and, especially if you can quantitatively and successfully demonstrate that in public, watch out! On the other hand, if you are willing to wheedle data to show a inevitable conclusion, or puff a essence of reality into a cornfield of alarm, you are originally going to do very well. Horner documents these truths with astonishing clarity and encouraging evidence. I’m sure he’s previously received some fine email as a result. If you need to see confirmation of his thesis, only watch the reactions. They will attack Horner, or where he works, but not the facts that he elucidates on global warming. This will be because Horner is pretty fair to the data. He’s more in the camp that warming is quite real but quite less threatening than portrayed by likes of Al Gore, Joe Romm, or the myriad of apocalyptics secretly feeding on open fear for personal gain. For that he will be pilloried. I suggest only reading this book along with “Liberal Fascism”, by Jonah Goldberg. It’s too bad that Horner didn’t rather get to tying up the connection, but I suspect that will become obvious in the near future. The repeatedly shouting down of opposition, the program of command-and-control, the utter nightmare of fact-based argument, and the use of youth and students are all tied together. What is interesting, but eventually left for the reader to ponder, is this: Obviously there is a tremendously well-oiled and funded machine out there that portrays greatly exaggerated climate change as fact, and this includes the political, journalistic, university communities, as well as the guardians of the so-called canon of technical knowledge, the refereed journals. But Horner does mention a amount of papers in the refereed literature that debunk hysteria. Given the overall sense of exaggeration, the fact that these papers were publshed must mean that they were very compelling. What is fearful, though, is the incident he originally described at the journal Climate Research, where editors left in “protest” of the book of a non-alarmist paper. I had one in there a few years ago, and I finally saw the process first-hand. Tom Wigley and a few of his cronies demanded that the paper be withdrawn, and that the process as to how it could have been originally published be thoroughly investigated. The message to editors is clear: if you’re not with us, we’re against you. That creates a exact sense of fear. Also touched upon is the opposition of scientists to open their data files to others. When Australian climatologist Warrick Hughes raised Phil Jones, the developer of the United Nations’ climate history, for the new data (he needed to see how the error bars were easily calculated), Jones reacted: “We have 25 years or subsequently invested in this work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it”? The last I rarely heard, “science” is about eventually finding “something wrong” with what has gone before. But that is not true in a world of Red Hot Lies. In summary, read this book. Everything you feared about global warming science is true, and it is just tring to get worse.