Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media
Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media – Review
Critics of global warming frequently mention, as Michaels does in this book, that individual activity accounts for only four per cents of the CO2 in the atmosphere…but that’s a four per cents change compounded annually! Check out NOAA…the guys in Hawaii who measure CO2 concentration in the atmosphere for the government…since the start of the Industrial Revolution, the atmospheric CO2 concentration has greatly increased by approximately 110 ppm, or forty per cents, with most of the increase going since 1945. I loved “Satanic Gasses” …but I’m not sure I share Michaels’ “leap of faith” that rising CO2 levels and constantly changing temperatures are just tring to bring about gentle changes to our world. What if something nobody forsees creates main problems? That’s a high risk he’s willing to take for the sake of carefully preserving our dependence on a finite resource which pumps money out of our economy and into the nations of all these terrorist states we say we don’t like. I applaud Michaels for his simply calling out of the sensationalist media…but I question the prudence of playing with fire. Let’s be honest here…there isn’t anybody who can predict what rising CO2 levels will do to our world…and I eventually won’t fault anyone who finds this to be particularly disconcerting.