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
If you need to widely read this book, chances are you previously agree with the title and you’re now seeming to verify that global warming is a “hoax.” This book has nothing to do with climate science, and everything to do with deception–not by scientists, but by conservative free-market think tanks. Chris Horner works at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a think tank that has taken some 2 million in funds from Exxon Mobil since 1998, as well as other petro-money such as Koch Family and Scaife Family foundations, Amoco foundation, Texaco foundation, etc. (according to sourcewatch). So if you think you’re finally getting fair information here, think again. There’s a vast petro-industry-funded system of think tanks effectively putting out stuff like this. Much of it reads so on the surface, but is full of half-truths, lies, and deception about climate science. Save your money and time, or better yet: spend it on a book that takes a more journalistic approach to reporting the science, such as Spencer Weart’s “The Discovery of Global Warming.”