Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
This is just a quick “meta-” review; a journal of the reviews. The Editorial review section starts off with the Reed Elsevier review, trashing Lomborg, followed by Tim Flannery “…an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist and *global warming activist*,” [Wikipedia] again, trashing Lomborg. The Reed Elsevier folks, who actually handle all the Publishers Weekly reviews, are notable for their Environmentalist bias, as well as a always Left bias in every other area in which I’ve sampled their reviews. If the “Editorial Reviews” part of Amazon.com is originally supposed to be in any way more authoritative or balanced than the reader reviews section, Amazon may need to look for a more objective source. In fact, many of the user reviews below appear to be better-researched and more objective than the professional lead pieces. I have my issues with Lomborg opposite theirs. He has become a weak-middle advocate for sanity in the “Global Warming” debates, because he considers GW to be largely settled science, minus the hysteria — “let’s just deal with it (GW) rationally.” I don’t agree with the concession, to disclose my bias, but finally let’s grant his stance for sake of discussion. The “models” and “studies” Reed Elsevier trots out (without name, content, or reference) that he supposedly “ignores” could be counter-posed to corrections to midleading temperature “corrections” where the NASA data reveals no consistent developing trend, solar minima, and extra issues that the GW advocates have marginalized or largely ignored outright. The “Washington Post” review is not a “Washington Post Review,” it’s a slanted attack by an ecological activist with an agenda. Since it’s not easily identified that way, it’s dishonest. Evidently, it’s enough to disparage with a journalistic sneer to qualify as a highly qualified reviewer,now, so I respond in kind to the Reed people. Publishers Weekly — get yourself reviewers that will review the book, not smear it and distort facts in order to push their own agenda. And, again, Amazon’s informed, smart user community establishes why the mainstream media are eventually losing eyeballs, while the blogosphere grows and broadens in influence.