
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming : And Environmentalism.
Title:
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming : And Environmentalism.
Author:
Horner, Christopher C.
ISBN:
9781596980440
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (320 pages)
Series:
Politically Incorrect Guides
Contents:
Praise -- Title Page -- Dedication -- PREFACE -- Part I - ENVIRONMENTALISM AND AUTHORITARIANS -- Chapter One - GREEN IS THE NEW RED -- Well-connected greens -- Green on the outside, red to the core -- People: The enemy -- Your friends and neighbors -- The familiar goal: Global salvation -- Environmentalism as religion -- Confused priorities -- The betrayal of a movement -- Chapter Two - THE AUTHORITARIAN IMPULSE -- Global warming: So sue me -- Nuremberg for dissenters: "Are you now or have you ever been . . . " -- Chapter Three - THE SKY IS FALLING -- Alarmism made easy -- Good news is no news -- Doomsay your way to fame and fortune -- Global warming alarmism: Who's the greatest? -- Nuke the . . . nukes -- Killer . . . trees? -- Part II - GLOBAL WARMING: THE CONVENIENT LIES -- Chapter Four - GLOBAL WARMING 101 -- What's causing the warming? -- How much are we warming? -- How destructive is this warming? -- The shame -- Cure worse than the possible disease -- Chapter Five - THE "CONSENSUS" LIE -- There is "consensus" and there is truth -- How dare you speak! -- Al Gore's undercount -- Silencing dissent -- More heretics to burn -- Blinded by science -- Chapter Six - GETTING HOT IN HERE? -- Forgetting Siberia -- Cold below the belt -- The United States of hotness? -- Nice figures -- Airbrushing the past -- Hockey Stick takes center ice, denies an Ice Age -- Hockey Stick in the penalty box -- Are models really dumb? -- The North Korean tiger -- Chapter Seven - MELTING ICE CAPS, ANGRIER HURRICANES, AND OTHER LIES ABOUT THE WEATHER -- Can't bear the truth -- Chilly reception for Arctic claims -- Sea no evil -- Doing something about the weather -- The numbers game -- Hurricane Kyoto -- Drought -- Al Gore: Couldn't stand the weather -- Part III - THE FALSE PROPHETS (AND REAL PROFITS) OF GLOBAL WARMING -- Chapter Eight - MEDIA MANIA.
All the alarmism that's fit to print -- Full court press -- Historical hysteria -- It came from Hollywood -- Chapter Nine - THE BIG MONEY OF CLIMATE ALARMISM -- Enron: Leader of the Axis of E's -- "Beyond Petroleum"? How about getting Beyond BP? -- Chemical dependence: DuPont -- No utility: Cinergy (now Duke Energy) -- Big Business and Big Green -- Chapter Ten - AL GORE'S INCONVENIENT RUSE -- A better title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -- Raging bull -- Apocalypse now -- Sins of omission -- Sins of commission: The usual suspects -- Melting ice sheets -- Part IV - MAKING YOU POORER AND LESS FREE -- Chapter Eleven - THE COST OF THE ALARMIST AGENDA -- Energy demand -- Carbon rationing and Capitol Hill -- Cost/benefit analysis: Dividing by zero -- Turning out the lights -- It really ain't easy being green -- It's been tried -- Blind optimists at home -- Stick it to the poor -- No benefit -- Renewable boondoggles -- The greater good -- Poorer and no cooler -- Chapter Twelve - THE KYOTO PROTOCOL -- Blame it on Rio -- The Senate's unanimous rejection -- Kyoto's flaws -- Impotent Kyoto -- Europe's embarrassment -- Bad science, bad math -- Bush and Kyoto -- Prattling political polemics -- Global governance -- The Holy Grail -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- INDEX -- Copyright Page.
Abstract:
Global warming": the Left's last best chance to gain a stranglehold on our political system and economy For decades, environmentalism has been the Left's best excuse for increasing government control over our actions in ways both large and small. It's for Mother Earth! It's for the children! It's for the whales! But until now, the doomsday-scenario environmental scares they've trumped up haven't been large enough to justify the lifestyle restrictions they want to impose. With global warming, however, greenhouse gasbags can argue that auto emissions in Ohio threaten people in Paris, and that only "global governance" (Jacques Chirac's words) can tackle such problems. Now, in The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Global Warming and Environmentalism, Christopher C. Horner tears the cover off the Left's manipulation of environmental issues for political purposes--and lays out incontrovertible evidence for the fact that catastrophic man-made global warming is just more Chicken-Little hysteria, not actual science. He explains why, although Al Gore and his cronies among the media elites and UN globalists endlessly bleat that "global warming" is an unprecedented global crisis, they really think of it as a dream come true. It's the ideal scare campaign for those who hate capitalism and love big government. For, as Horner explains, if global warming really were as bad as the Leftist doomsayers insist it is, then no policy imaginable could "solve" it. According to the logic of the greens' own numbers, no matter how much we sacrifice there would still be more to do. That makes global warming the bottomless well of excuses for the relentless growth of big government. Horner (an attorney and senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute) reveals the full anti-American, anti-capitalist, and anti-human agenda of today's environmentalists, dubbing them
"green on the outside, red to the core." He details how they use strong-arm legal tactics--and worse--against those who dare to point out the weakness of their arguments for global warming. Along the way, he explodes ten top global warming myths, carefully examining the evidence to determine how much warming there really is and what is actually causing it. He exposes the lies that the environmental lobby routinely tells to make its case; the ways in which it is trying to impose initiatives such as the Kyoto Protocol on an unwilling American public; and much more--including the green lobby's favorite politicians (John Kerry, John McCain, Joe Lieberman, and others). It's time to stand up to the environmentalist industry and insist: human beings are not the enemy. In breezy, light-hearted, and always entertaining fashion, The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Global Warming and Environmentalism gives you the facts you need to do so.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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