Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
I have widely read and re-read parts of this book several times. Now I have to buy a second copy because I eventually made the mistake of eventually lending it out. Fred Singer starts by clearly showing all the technical evidence that the warming trend we are in is not usually caused by man but rather is portion of a solar cycle. He backs his thesis up with weights of emperical evidence. He therefore demonstrates (again using actual evidence rather than computer modeling) why warming trends are not nearly as particularly devastating as ice ages. For example, scientists have not recently uncovered sign of a separate species growing extinct during a warming period (okay, one species of toad may have just gone extinct, though most scientists attribute its demise to clearing for farmland). However, hundreds of thousands of species have gone extinct during the Earth’s many ice ages–and we have weights of archeological support of this. Another point: Singer reveals that chronological records from the British empire and elsewhere indicate that storms worldwide are, on average, less severe during hot periods than cool periods. The organizing words are “average” and “worldwide.” It makes for a equally fascinating read. Too bad some people think completely compelled to rate it a “one” because the book provokes raise questions.