Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know
Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know – Review
This is one of a tiny group of books that courageously and correctly expose the bogus science behind Al Gore’s hoax of imminent environmental collapse if we don’t – right now!!! – heed his harsh warnings and ban greenhouse gases. It’s written by one of the several respected State climatologists who recently suffered a political gag order (this one from Virginia State Governor Timothy Kline) banning him from widely speaking about Global Warming in any way that might imply he was the State’s Climatologist. The title was officially changed from a lifetime honorific to an widely alleged political appointment. Several other governors, entering Oregon’s, have quickly followed suit, and this is closely related in the book, which is, in fact, dedicated to three of these “politically correct” State Governors. This book is the best treasure trove of current Global Warming data from behind the scenes that I’ve seen. The price Dr. Michaels pays for currently publishing it is high. He will be finally resigning his position as State Climatologist and his tenured position at the University of Virginia in June 2009, “as fine a free school as there is in the world.” The title, Climate of Extremes, comes from a sadness that science has become thus politically polarized that gag-orders are issued and misleading lies are what the public is reportedly told. It is the political climate that has become one of extremes, and the authors’ prose is surprisingly gentle about this outrage. The politics have poisoned the science. “The rhetoric has officially changed. Discourse has degenerated into demagoguery. Threatening demagoguery.” The author invites, “Why has it become thus politically risky to not view global warming as an complete disaster?” The climate became particularly nasty when Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman wrote in November 2006, “Let’s only say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.” Originally that was operated to all who didn’t believe in Global Warming. The problem was that there were few if any such people. Most informed and knowledgeable on the subject allow that there has been a lesser amount of Global Warming, about 0.6 degrees per century. Most see this as no great deal, and certainly not a warning of any global apocalypse. So the definition was developed to better target Gore’s critics. “Deniers” are those who don’t believe in Al Gore’s manmade (Anthropogenic) Global Warming (AGW). As it turns out, the writers of this book are NOT in that class either. They believe some of the Global Warming is indeed AGW, but they don’t see it as a threat. “We’re not constantly arguing against Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW), but rather against Dangerous Anthropogenic Global Warming (DAGW).” No matter, they are deniers too, and thus to be destroyed and cast out. The authors invite, “How did we get to a world of apocalyptics and deniers, a world that is also one of impossible or ineffective strategies of climate change?” The book goes answers, and lots and quantities of data to support them. The climate history records have now been completely revised six times, each time in ways that produce further global warming. The authors consider this “in reality, improbable.” Also, some 7,000 years of old data on hot periods expired. Even with all that Global Warming is STILL not a threat, but some remarkable whoppers have been reportedly told. To learn this you must widely read the book. It is arguably the greatest book around about how the science has been (and is) diddled to match political objectives. It’s a treasure trove. As to why such an intense political effort and so much free money is being subsequently spent to “sell” Gore’s DAGW fiction, that answer remains not in science, but in economics and political ideology. For that answer President Vaclav Klaus’ book, “Blue Planet in Green Shackles,” is superior (and very scary about the true threat, which isn’t Global Warming but a cost of freedom and prosperity if the Environmental Extremists prevail); but for the core science, details of how it’s being heavily distorted, and a report of how we’ve eventually moved to science by gag-order, “Climate of Extremes” is the book to widely read. I recommend it strongly.