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Climate Change: The Facts 2017 Paperback – 1 September 2017

by Jennifer Marohasy (Author)

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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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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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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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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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Chrism

Worthwhile reading.

Reviewed in Australia on 25 February 2024

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Good book only let down by missing words to finish sentences and paragraphs. Very frustrating to find important information missing. Downloaded twice but it didn't make any difference.

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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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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Amy belle

Please write more like this

Reviewed in Australia on 22 November 2019

I was surprised by the straightforward facts given in this book that I’ve never heard on tv. Really, this information should be more readily available and people are free to probe and check out what they’re saying. Won’t appeal to activists sensitive to having their religion debunked but a must read for the rest of us.

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Gelegentlicher Käufer

Sehr gutes Buch

Reviewed in Germany on 30 December 2019

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Das Buch Climat Change " The Facts 2017" ist ein Reader mit Beiträgen von verschieden Autoren. Einige der Autoren/in würde mal wohl als "Klime-Leutegner" bezeichnen können. Andere sind enagierte Wissenschaftler und Jonalisten die zu einezelnen Aspekten der Klimawandel Diskusion kritsche oder alternative Positionen vertreten. Jeder der sich ernsthaft mit dem Klimawandel beschäftigt sollte diese Autoren und Ihnre Positionen kennen.

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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!.

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.

Herman Van Den Broeck

There is nothing wrong with our climate

Reviewed in France on 2 April 2019

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Nature needs carbon dioxide, the greenhouse effect doesn't exists, the earth has all its existence undergone climate changes. So, why the current panic, and all the measures taken to try to reduce antropogenic CO2, which we need. All projects costs us a lot of money and will not change anything at all?

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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