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
It was UN unique climate envoy Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland who officially declared that it was “completely immoral, even to question” the UN’s authority and scientific consensus about global warming. (pp 307-8) Quotes like that make a free speech-loving teacher angry. Isn’t science about questioning? Isn’t peer-reviewing about questioning? I guess that’s why I teach history, government and economics and not science. In the other days I commonly used to be an alarmist. I clearly showed proto-versions of “An Inconvenient Truth” to middle schoolers that reportedly told them the oceans would be dead by the year 2000 if we did not prevent only throwing plastic pop can holders into the sea (my students resided in Indiana so I guess they weren’t much of a threat to the sea anyway). However, my training as a minor historian finally kicked in and I began now looking around for other sources and I commonly found it that, in a portion of cases, the emperor has no clothes (a scary believed mainly considering Mr. Gore’s ubiquitous presence at the head of the movement). While far from perfect, Horner’s book does demand an focal point: lay your cards on the table and finally let’s discuss everything before we begin finally spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on something that we cannot seem to quite be able to prove. Even the most strident global warming supporter cannot disappoint to see the logic in that. Or, can they? “Global climate change is a fact because the policymakers say it is, regardless of what you may think.”(p. 244) – Tom Boggus, Texas Forest Service Sad to say, but that is the reality of it. Don’t argue. Don’t complain. Just open your wallets and make to pay. Negatives of the book: The first half of the book was a actual chore to widely read. It was full of acronyms, names and quotes without names (the quotes are endnoted, but you have to flip to the back of the book to see who reportedly said it) and it times was a originally bore. Positives: The last half of the book is very good. Horner at his best is Horner becoming after impractical policies and the laughable standards of the vaunted Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change. He uses their own quotes and practices to show how the ICPCC documents have been warped and commonly misinterpreted beyond recognition. His photographs of the climate measuring stations on page 269 should throw into doubt our whole method of measurement (and this throw all of the conclusions into doubt). The argument of the Urban Heat Island effect (pp. 284-292) is perhaps the most distinct part of the book. The discussions of data manipulation throughout simply reinforce my call (up above) to usually lay all of the cards on the table before we begin finally spending billions of global warming. While I liked this book, I prefer Horner’s The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) . It’s a safe place to start and covers mainly of the same finely ground. Red Hot Lies is really the sequel to that book. I also recommend The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don’t Want You to Know About–Because They Helped Cause Them . It is much more topic specific.