Table of Contents
Foreword John Coleman xv
Chapter 1 The Education of a Climate Denier 1
Chapter 2 Climate Change Déjà Vu 13
Two Centuries of Climate Scares 14
The Inconvenient Global Cooling Scare of the 1970s 16
The Big Switch 21
Chapter 3 "Pulled from Thin Air": The 97 Percent "Consensus" 27
Fooling Even the Scientists 28
Whole Dozens of Scientists! 31
Dubious Evidence for a Ubiquitous Number 34
The Fake Science Is Not Fooling the Public 39
Chapter 4 The Tail Does Not Wag the Dog 41
The Origins of the Global Warming Scare 42
Human Beings Don't Breathe Out Poison 45
What Really Causes Climate Change 48
The Positive Benefits of CO2 51
If Anything, It's the Other Way Around 53
Chapter 5 The Ice Caps Are Melting! 61
The Antarctic 62
Greenland and the Arctic 67
Sea Level 72
The Polar Bears 78
Chapter 6 The Hottest Temperatures in a Thousand Years! Michael Mann's Hockey Schtick 83
Hiding the Medieval Warm Period 86
The Hockey Stick Breaks under Scrutiny 88
Replicating Error 91
Dissension in the Ranks 93
Chapter 7 A Long Cool Pause 97
Satellites over Surface 100
The Pause That Refreshes 104
The World Is Not Burning 107
Chapter 8 Models Do Not Equal Evidence 109
Predictions Are Suddenly "Evidence," Models are Now "Data" 110
Sub-Standard Software 112
In Violation of Basic Principles 115
Chapter 9 The Eroding "Consensus" 119
Goaded into Taking a Stand 120
Re-Evaluating the Evidence 120
More Skeptics on the Left 125
From True Believers to Heretics 128
Chapter 10 Climategate: The UN IPCC Exposed 143
Breaking Ranks 147
Circling the Wagons 152
Thoroughly Discredited 154
Insiders Speak Out 161
Chapter 11 What's in a Name? How "Global Warming" Became "Climate Change" 165
Unfalsifiable 166
Emergency! The Government Must Fix the Weather! 174
All the World's Ills 179
Chapter 12 Not So Extreme 189
Normal Variation 190
Tropical Cyclones and Hurricanes 192
Tornadoes 201
Drought 204
Floods and Heavy Rains 207
Wildfires 210
Ocean Acidification 213
Chapter 13 The Ever-Receding Tipping Point 215
Deadlines Come and Go 217
The Last Chance 220
"Serially Doomed" 222
Chapter 14 Controlling Climate … or You? 225
Spreading the Wealth, Governing the Globe 227
Dictator Envy 229
Voluntary Poverty 232
The Carbon Tax 235
Just Turn Down the Heat 237
Chapter 15 Climbing onto the Climate Change Gravy Train 241
Deep Pockets 242
Making Out like a Bandit 246
They Get More Money-Even from Gas Producers 249
Cut Them Off 255
Chapter 16 Hypocrisy on Parade 259
High Fliers 263
Noble Savages 267
More Hollywood Hypocrites 269
Chapter 17 Child Propaganda 273
Frightening the Children-and Using Them 275
Children versus the Climate 279
Chapter 18 Bypassing Democracy to Impose Green Energy Mandates 283
Chinafication 284
No Impact 289
Note Winning over the Public 292
Chapter 19 Green Colonialism 295
We've Got Ours 296
Fossil Fuels-A Power for Good 299
Keeping the Black Man Down 301
Irreplaceable 305
CO2, the Healthy Addiction 308
Chapter 20 The Way Forward 311
Dismantling a Disastrous Legacy 313
Sound Policy 315
The Fight Goes On 320
Acknowledgments 323
Notes 325
Index 399
