Meltdown the predictable distortion of global warming by scientists, politicians, and the media
Title:
Meltdown the predictable distortion of global warming by scientists, politicians, and the media
Author:
Michaels, Patrick J.
ISBN:
9781933995397
9781597340533
9781933995120
9781281905499
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, 2004.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vii, 271 p.) : ill. (some col.), col. maps.
Contents:
1. Foreword -- 2. An introduction to global warming -- 3. Meltdown? : the truth about icecaps -- 4. All creatures cute and furry -- 5. Spin cycle : hurricanes, tornadoes, and other cyclones -- 6. Droughts and floods : worse and worse? -- 7. A greener world of changing seasons? -- 8. Global warming, disease, and death -- 9. No fact checks, please! -- 10. The "National Assessment" disaster -- 11. The predictable distortion of global warming -- 12. Breaking the cycle.
Abstract:
Why is news about global warming always bad? Why do scientists so often offer dire predictions about the future of the environment? In Meltdown, climatologist Patrick J. Michaels says it's only natural. He argues that the way we do science today--when issues compete with each other for monopoly funding by the federal government--creates a culture of exaggeration and a political community that then takes credit for having saved us from certain doom.
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