The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming
The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming – Review
I have searched high and low to find President Bush’s basis for his "scientific" rejection of the Kyoto treaty on global warming…and everywhere I look through the news stories starts me back to this book. If not this, where else? I haven’t found the argument that global warming is real, yet maybe unimportant elsewhere. I haven’t found the argument that Kyoto is irrelevant to global warming–with real numbers–elsewhere. Everyone else also appears to say "global warming isn’t real" (losing the argument) or "global warming is terrible (losing the argument as to why no state of consequence–including Germany, England or Japan–has subsequently ratified that treaty). I quickly noticed this in a latest news story. But where oh where does Bush’s argument go from? I think it’s this book, which has become a classic on global warming. Both my conservative and enviro friends appear pretty aware of it and the authors and accord its arguments a group of respect. In "The Nation" last month there was an exchange between the authors and a critic which most of my friends decide was surprisingly favorable to the writers. I don’t know if I agree. But I commonly found Satanic Gases very readable (though I tend to suspect anything from the publisher–Cato Institute) and, if, as I guess, this is the book that Bush and Cheney are currently looking at, I’ve made to give it five stars.