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Climate Change: The Facts 2017 Paperback – 1 September 2017

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Climate Change: The Facts 2017 contains 22 essays by internationally-renowned experts and commentators, including Dr Bjorn Lomborg, Dr Matt Ridley, Professor Peter Ridd, Dr Willie Soon, Dr Ian Plimer, Dr Roy Spencer, and literary giant Clive James. The volume is edited by Dr Jennifer Marohasy, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. Fourteen of the contributors currently hold or have held positions at a university or a scientific research organisation. Dr Jennifer Marohasy said, “Climate Change: The Facts 2017 presents the case for climate change policies to be based on scientific evidence and it reveals how many of the potential policy responses to climate change are often wildly disproportionate compared to their potential cost.” “However, our understanding of how the climate operates is incomplete and it is critically important to challenge the view that the planet is facing a global warming catastrophe.” “Climate Change: The Facts 2017 addresses a range of issues including the science of climate change, the homogenisation and manipulation of temperature data, the economic and social impact of climate change policy proposals, and the way climate change is presented by the media and portrayed in popular culture,” said Dr Marohasy.

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380 pages
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English
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Connor Court
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1 September 2017
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14.81 x 2.08 x 21.01 cm
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0909536031
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978-0909536039
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Connor Court (1 September 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 380 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0909536031
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0909536039
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.81 x 2.08 x 21.01 cm

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Matt Ridley's books have been shortlisted for six literary awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (for Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters). His most recent book, The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture, won the award for the best science book published in 2003 from the National Academies of Science. He has been a scientist, a journalist, and a national newspaper columnist, and is the chairman of the International Centre for Life, in Newcastle, England. Matt Ridley is also a visiting professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

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tmatsci

Climate change revisited

Reviewed in Australia on 17 September 2017

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This book is a compilation of papers and essays on the climate change "debate". The main themes raise sufficient doubt to condemn the whole edifice of human induced climate change due to CO2 emissions.

Considering one theme - adjustment of temperature records. To my mind adjustment of the individual temperature records by considering adjacent temperature measurement cannot be justified at all. Some adjacent site are hundreds of kilometres apart. One wonders if the scientists making these adjustments have ever been outside and observed the microclimate changes in temperature that occur from metre to metre in some cases. Granted there are problems with obtaining continuous temperature records in one location that have been made with the same instruments in the same physical environment but where inconsistent records exist they usually cannot be reliably corrected except under well defined circumstances. (As an aside this reviewer has been involved for much of his professional life with correlating standard tests between laboratories and this is often problematical even though it is a much less complex problem than trying to correlate field measurements.)

In summary this book requires careful reading by the climate scientists and policy makers.

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Peter Dixon

Climate Science series

Reviewed in Australia on 26 November 2021

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part of background for updated book CLIMATE CHANGE: THE FACTS 2020. Part of series of Climate Science discussion without activist slogans and other misleading digressions.

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Authoritative, Factual. Most objective arguments out there.

Reviewed in Australia on 4 February 2020

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After all the insulting rubbish we have heard from Al Gore, vacuous film stars, Greta the illiterate teenager, corrupt UN parasites and greedy bankers after climate taxes, here is a book with facts and proper analysis.
Warmist cult high priests have excommunicated these professionals. Why? What are they afraid of? Transparency.
After reading this great book, I know which facts and arguments are more credible.

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Bluey from Oz

Lots of data

Reviewed in Australia on 21 April 2021

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I am working my way through it. It has lots of technical data which is not much use to me. However I find the different chapters provide a challenging viewpoint.

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Roberta West

Shows how facts and figures are being manipulated in favour of global warming fanatics.

Reviewed in Australia on 7 March 2020

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Great read, written by various scientists with no allegiance to anyone, therefore their research is not tainted by money or politics. Shows how the facts are distorted and altered.

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William Burnell

Enlightning

Reviewed in Australia on 16 October 2019

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10 put of 10 for giving us an in depth view of climate research from a diverse group of scientists who do not subscribe to the climate catastrophe ideology.

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Murray Hallam

Excellent read. Well worth your time.

Reviewed in Australia on 1 October 2019

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Excellent book. More should read this book. The climate change facts, not the hysteria.

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Mr Paul W Lamprecht

Non event climate change

Reviewed in Australia on 12 November 2017

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I got tired listening to the holier than thou attitude of the greens.
At least this book looks at real science andinterprets

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Lance A. Wallace

the Great Barrier Reef and the Paris Agreement

Reviewed in the United States on 22 September 2017

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This book deals with virtually all of the major climate issues, from atmospheric temperatures to sea level rise to ocean acidification, the Great Barrier Reef and the Paris Agreement. Moreover, 21 of the 22 chapters written by leaders in their fields have been written especially for this book and seem to me to be absolutely up-to-date through 2016 and even a few mentions of events in 2017! (The exception is a chapter from a book published in 2010 by the late Bob Carter, a paleontologist and marine geologist.) The essays are very well-written and highly detailed; they do not seem to have been restricted in length. Thus the book is very satisfyingly complete at 335 pages. For those who wish to go further into any topic, there are 45 pages of well-chosen references (perhaps 500 in all).

Highlights for me are as follows:

Carbon Dioxide and Plant Growth, by Dr. Craig D. Idso. The author has done much to study the impacts of CO2 on plant growth. His Table 13.1 is a detailed look at the effect on plant growth of a 300 ppm increase in CO2. As all greenhouse operators know, CO2 levels at 800-1000 ppm are good for growth, but Table 13.1 tells us that an increase to about 600-700 ppm will produce 34-36% increases in the world's most important crops (wheat, rice, sugar cane, etc.), with corn not far behind at 24%. With world population increasing, these benefits of increased CO2 are crucial to maintaining and increasing world food production. Idso points out the increased greening of the planet as shown by NASA satellites that has led to a 6-13% increase in primary plant productivity since the 19080s.

The Impact and Cost of the Paris Agreement, by Bjorn Lomborg. The author begins his chapter with the statement that global warming is real, mostly man-made, and will have a negative impact over the long run. He then calculates not only the benefit (reduction in global temperature) but also the cost associated with each country's statement of their intentions in the Paris Agreement. He assumes that each country actually makes good on its stated intentions (such as the USA promise to reduce CO2 emissions by 26-28% by 2030) and also considers the extension of these actions out to 2100. The result is absolutely flabbergasting: A reduction in global temperatures by 0.05 degrees Celsius by 2030 compared to the expected increase of a degree or so, and a reduction by 2100 of 0.17 C compared to the expected increase of about 1.5-2 C. Under an optimistic scenario of great efficiency of these actions, the cost is estimated at 946 billion, but under a more realistic scenario the cost balloons to about 1.9 trillion US dollars. At the time of writing, this was the only peer-reviewed benefit-cost analysis of the Paris Agreement.

The Poor are Carrying the Cost of Today's Climate Policy, by Dr. Matt Ridley. Ridley estimates that ethanol subsidies have consumed about 5% of the world food crops and quotes the UN conclusion that it was the main cause of the rise in food prices in 2008 and years following. Dr. Indur Goklany has calculated that this policy resulted in the death of 200,000 people. Wind turbines kill rare birds of prey, including eagles, hawks, gannets, and swifts, plus great numbers of bats. Wind and solar power both receive huge subsidies from many governments, which enrich rich people and raise the price of electricity for poor people.

Mass Death Dies Hard, by Clive James. This chapter is NOT written by an expert in climate science, but it is still one of my favorites. Clive James is a poet, author, and broadcaster. He writes "I speak as one who knows nothing about the mathematics involved in modeling non-linear systems." But he does know something about the language and uses language precisely enough to keep me laughing throughout his chapter. Here is a sample: "The Australian climate star Tim Flannery will probably not, of his own free will, shrink back to ...being an expert on the extinction of the giant wombat. He is far more likely to go on being one of the mass media's mobile experts on climate...It will go on being dangerous to stand between him and a TV camera. If the giant wombat could have moved at that speed, it would still be with us."

I enjoyed reading almost every chapter. The main person responsible for the book appears to be the editor, Jennifer Marohasy, a Senior Fellow at the Australian Institute for Public Affairs. As such, there is a distinct leaning toward topics of interest to Australians, such as the Great Barrier Reef (two chapters) and the astoundingly mediocre (or worse) Bureau of Meteorology (several more chapters). One of the most perfect takedowns of the BOM is the chapter by Joanne Nova, writer of the witty and always perceptive climate science blog http://joannenova.com.au/ . She documents in unanswerable detail the trials and tribulations of one temperature station in Rutherglen, Australia, which has consistently reported temperature using the same equipment in an area that has not undergone much urban growth, thus a rare example of a long-term undisturbed data series. The raw data show a gentle cooling over 100 years, and this trend is matched by 4 nearby stations. However, the BOM transforms this into a rather sharp rise by "homogenizing" the Rutherglen data with measurements from 23 stations, some rather distant. This appears to be an example of contaminating good data with bad, a practice that Anthony Watts (another author of another chapter in the book) has repeatedly called attention to. (Watts is the proprietor of the most widely read blog on climate science)

I should state that I chose to buy the rather expensive paperback book rather than the very affordable Kindle version. I am very happy with my decision, because the paperback book is so well put together, with good binding, wide margins, and highly readable type. It has clearly been planned with considerable care. I expect it will be useful to me for years to come, so for me the book was the better option.

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M. Neuman

Informative and thought-provoking

Reviewed in the United States on 20 February 2018

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Who do you trust on global warming/climate change? Do you have the time and background to be able to evaluate what you read and see about it?

I took Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth of 2006 as a serious warning. As a Democrat in the U.S., I took it as reliable.

My career has been in communications. I’ve worked on public information campaigns on recycling of household products, and the dangers of kids inhaling some consumer products. I’ve worked on crisis communications issues such as chemophobia (fear of chemicals) and clergy sex abuse. The first rule in crisis communications is: Tell the truth.

My background in science is: high school and college basic biology, high school chemistry and physics, and career focus on chemical products. Beyond that, I discovered an adult onset interest in science and I read in general interest treatments of science from cosmology, paleontology, evolution, the environment, cancer, diabetes, the brain, health and nutrition to climate change, to mention a few topics. Am I smart enough to understand any of these topics on my own? No, I need to rely on experts who know a lot more than I do. But I live in a democratic republic and I have a responsibility as a voting citizen to educate myself as well as much as I can.

When I had breast cancer two years ago, I had to trust in my chemotherapy oncologist and surgeon before I could agree to the treatments they recommended. Although I had to work like a devil to understand a Triple Negative tumor and the ways that chemo was working in me, I trusted these medical experts to be steering me as best they could. I’ve got an 80% chance of not having to deal with cancer anymore and a 20% chance of it rearing its head in me again. I’m satisfied with those odds and grateful.

In contrast, something has bothered me greatly about the global warming/climate change proclamations of the past dozen years. Not debate, not discussions, but proclamations. Instead of really educating us on the questions of climate heating or cooling, most authorities have pronounced that climate change is settled, that most scientists say it is settled, that it is caused by carbon dioxide (CO2) and that reducing what is vividly named our carbon footprint will save our planet. My president, Barack Obama, so held these things. His attorney general, and therefore my attorney general, Loretta Lynch, was considering prosecuting people and businesses labeled “climate change deniers.” Labels, no-discussion proclamations, and most of all opposite-opinion prosecutions -- this is no way for a democratic republic to set policy and it’s no way for science to go forward.

Climate Change, The Facts 2017, was edited by Jennifer Marohasy, senior fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs, which has close ties to the conservative-libertarian Liberal Party in Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Public_Affairs. Does the political leaning of the IPA--which would not be my approach–-bias the reporting of the 23 contributors to the book? I found it instead to be informative and thought-provoking. You can disagree with the facts presented, but there are facts to disagree with or not. I think I need to read it again.

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Pamela A. Matlack Klein

Real Science, not Fake News!

Reviewed in the United States on 16 November 2017

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There is a bit of a difference between Science and Science Fiction. Climate Change: The Facts 2017 is SCIENCE! What is reported in the press about climate change is Science Fiction. Just for starters, carbon dioxide is NOT a pollutant nor is it harmful to life on Earth. To the contrary, without carbon dioxide there would be NO LIFE on Earth. Sea level is not rising catastrophically nor will it be 5-20 feet higher than today at the turn of the century. Sea level has been rising slowly for the past 12,000 years when the last ice age melted. The amount of rise is so small that it is barely noticeable. Where it does seem to be rising more quickly it is almost always a case of land subsidence due to rebound in the north because the miles of ice are no longer depressing the crust. Global temperature is NOT rising, either. We have been in a hiatus since 1998, when temps remained level. We are now entering a Grand Solar Minimum and it may get a lot colder.

I was in Dusseldorf last week to present a paper on erosion in the Fiji Islands. All the erosion investigated had purely human causes, i.e., sea walls, groins, removal of stabilizing vegetation or animals. The sea level in the Fijis is nearly static and has been this way for 50-70 years. Yet the Fiji government is in Bonn, Germany, right now with their hands out for aid, claiming they will soon be climate refugees. They must be talking about another Fiji in a parallel universe because the one I spent three weeks doing field work in is in great shape!

Read Anthony Watt's book, Climate Change: The Facts 2017 if you really want the truth about what is happening in the climate. Your alternative is to go see Al Gore's latest horror film about how we are all going to die because we drive our cars, heat our homes, and use electricity on a daily basis to make our lives better.

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Paul S.

I found this book to be the best ever for a complete coverage on all that is ...

Reviewed in Canada on 2 April 2018

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I'm a scientist and have followed the development of the UN IPCC Climate Change pronouncements since 1997. I suspected that the Science was wrong then and after more research to today, I am completely convinced that Man-Made global Warming is neither man-made nor is it 'bad' when it occurs now and then. I found this book to be the best ever for a complete coverage on all that is wrong with the UN IPCC conclusions and also provides real Scientific Explanations of the myriad of causes of Changes in Climate that has been going on for millions of years and that today's changes are not unusual and have all occurred before. What makes this book so unique and comprehensive that it is a collection of 22 separate and independent chapters each on specific aspects of Climate Change according to the expertise and specialization of the individual authors (e.g. molecular properties of CO2, Measurements of Temperatures, oceanography etc), mostly all well qualified Scientists. it does include a few chapters by non-scientists who provide their views simply as observers, If you have a basic understanding of the Sciences and methods and only want to read one book to explain it all, then this is the book you should get! I have read some of the work published by some of the contributors and communicated the editor and find that these are all well know experts in theirs fields of specialization from Climatology to astrophysics all of which impacts climate!.

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Mr. R. J. L. Payne

Excellent product

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 March 2019

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This excellent book explores very recent research into and views about climate and the very many complex factors which create it and its changes, against the prevailing orthodoxy which demonises both CO2 and humanity as causative. 23 authors offer diverse views on Barrier reef corals, oceans, distortions by climate computer modellers, heatwaves, the costs to the poor of current climate policies, the role of CO2 as a vital trace gas for life and fertility, the geological background to climate changes, sun and moon patterns and cyclic shifts, Papal politics in climate change sermons, the dubious politicisation of the Paris Agreement, the funding and censorship in AGW policy, and so on. It ends with a brilliant and very ironically amusing article by Clive James on apocalypticism and fear factor which has me laughing out loud, it is so spot on. It should be widely read by all the forces who seek to bring and end to industrial civilisation, as put forward originally by the influential Club of Rome, which went on under Maurice Strong to form the UN IPCC agenda. There, they "hit on the idea of global warming" to bring this about, along with stating that democracy was no longer suited to world problems. Hence the censorship of alternative scientific views which do not accept AGE theory. The book is sober and not a polemic, and deserves success.

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