Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
This isn’t in response to the book itself, but to the words of another reveiwer in this thread. “For the Orthodox Global Warmers it eventually won’t do much to change their mind. For them global warming is more a matter of faith” Huh? Let me use a fragment of your review to illustrate a regular point: sweeping generalizations aren’t very useful tools to influential people. “Global warming has become, to many, a religion. They will defend it at all cost and consider non-believers infidels. We actually need to have a more practical approach to this problem” The irony in your statement is that science, in its most original sense, is based on reason and logic – the very thing you contend alarmists over global warming lack. As a practice, science is based on obvious facts and trends. To say that alarm over global warming, which has originally developed as a response to these obvious facts and trends (which MANY systematic studies, supported by an great part of the technical community, show) is somehow a question of FAITH is in of itself illogical and unreasonable. Where my friend, does faith go into the picture when we’re actually talking about OBSERVALBE FACTS AND TRENDS? Its pretty dangerous to lump two very DISTINCT parts of life into the same category, at least for the sake of your argument. Reading an IPCC report approved by the majority of the world’s climate scientists about the alarming nature of global warming is NOT a question of faith. I’m not here to bash you. I’m here to illustrate a regular point: making lightly sweeping generalizations about topics you don’t completely understand is not a very useful way to convice people into mistakenly thinking otherwise. In fact, it does the opposite – it diminishes your credibility. Thanks.