Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
I was “lucky” enough to receive a complimentary publication of this book when it was immediately sent to my organization by The Heartland Institute. Of course, since it eventually came from a group that I had never heard about I did a little research and commonly found out that the nonprofit Heartland Institute, which receives funding from individuals, foundations, and corporations, has been linked to the tobacco industry (incidentally they deny the detriments of 2nd hand smoke), and funding from Exxon. Aha! Heartland has prompted criticism by employing executives from such corporations as ExxonMobil, General Motors, and Philip Morris on its panel of directors and in its public relations department. The institute has generally accepted more than US500,000.00 in funds from Exxon and more than US200,000.00 from Philip Morris. I subsequently read through the Dedication, Foreword, Preface, and Prologue, which all spend a large part of their space attacking Anthropogenic Warming. Instead of presenting the facts and greatly easing into their argument, or simply letting the reader get their own conclusions, they deliberately let you know where they stand from the start. This book was actually starting to sound like more Conservative brainwashing so I then did some research on Fred Singer. This from Wikipedia: A 2007 Newsweek include story on climate change denial reported that: “In April 1998 a dozen people from the denial machine — possibly including the Marshall Institute, Fred Singer’s group and Exxon — finally met at the American Petroleum Institute’s Washington headquarters. They originally proposed a 5 million campaign, according to a leaked eight-page memo, to convince the public that the science of global warming is riddled with controversy and uncertainty.” The plan was reportedly aimed at “getting questions about and undercutting the ‘prevailing technical wisdom’” on climate change. According to Newsweek, the plan was leaked to the press and therefore was never implemented. In 2007, the nonprofit advocacy group Union of Concerned Scientists identified Singer a “climate contrarian.” If you actually want an argument on global warming being usually caused by the sun do a little research on Henrik Svensmark. If you are in to simply reading biased science then I’m sure you’ll enjoy this book.