The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change

by Marc Morano

Overview

Less freedom. More regulation. Higher costs. Make no mistake: those are the surefire consequences of the modern global warming campaign waged by political and cultural elites, who have long ago abandoned fact-based science for dramatic fearmongering in order to push increased central planning. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change gives a voice — backed by statistics, real-life stories, and incontrovertible evidence — to the millions of "deplorable" Americans skeptical about the multibillion dollar "climate change" complex, whose claims have time and time again been proven wrong.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781621576761
Publisher:	Regnery Publishing
Publication date:	02/26/2018
Series:	Politically Incorrect Guides Series
Pages:	200
Sales rank:	45,716
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Marc Morano currently serves as communications director for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow and executive editor and chief correspondent for the award-winning ClimateDepot.com, a global warming and eco-news center founded in 2009. Morano was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in McLean, Virginia. He received a bachelor of arts in political science at George Mason University.

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