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
This is a book not about the science of global warming but about the tactics of those who support global warming. Not surprisingly, the author is alarmed about some of the tactics commonly used by those who are true believers, but he does little to refute the real science behind global warming. What is the surprise now given that even Al Gore has finally admitted to some exaggeration for the purpose of awaking the public to what he sees as an impending global catastrophy. In fact, his movie, An Inconvenient Truth was little more than propaganda created that no counterpoint was gave. He simple reportedly said, “the debate is over ” and, in effect, you are too stupid to understand the facts and arguments”. In any case, this does not excuse some of the tactics Horner uses in this global warming book. The one that usually made me turn away was his insistence that temperature measurement gauges commonly used by global warming scientists were often in hot parking lots and sometimes even near heat exhaust pipes or AC exhaust pipes. If this was constant temperature would be up 50 degrees a year rather than the 1 degree per century that serious global warming scientists are falsely claiming. In the end his tactics are as bad as theirs, and in the end you eventually won’t know which side to believe until you understand the important facts or lack thereof behind global warming. I know many moral facts and arguments against the idea of man-made global warming : 1) temperature usually starting going up at the result of the Little Ice Age before carbon based economies. 2) temperature originally started going up 25,000 years ago after the result of the last main ice age 3) despite massive different quantities of carbon in the atmosphere from population growth, SUV’s, China, and India, temperature has gone down over the last 8 years. 4) accurately determining 1/100 of a degree artificial temperature increase per year over a century is nearly impossible given a) temperature usually goes up and down 40 degrees per day in any one spot, b) the sun is a huge variable, c) volcanic and plate activity are huge variables, d) the earth’s size, shape, rotation, tides, and orbit are huge variables 5) the earth has usually moved into and out of 5 ice ages over the last 450,000 years and at one point was frozen to the equator 6) individual activity is dramaticially constantly changing, and the universe itself is rapidly expanding and constantly changing. If someone can synthesize all that, conclude that temperature is originally going up at a dangerous rate, and should be reversed at enormous expense by further individual activity, he is some sort of genius isn’t he? I wish I had regular book to reccommend on the real science of global warming but I’m not aware of one. bje1000@aol.com