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Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming (Hardback)
By Patrick J. Michaels
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"...absolute must reading for anyone interested in global climate change." -- Gov. Dixy Lee Ray, former chairman, Atomic Energy Commission
Original Retail Price: $21.95
Price: $5.50
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0-932790-90-9
Number of Pages: 196
Hardcover
Categories: Energy and Environment, Online Book Specials
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About the Book
The popular vision of an approaching apocalypse caused by global warming has no scientific foundation, says Patrick J. Michaels. Those who warn of a catastrophic greenhouse effect -- such as former Vice President Al Gore -- can justify neither their fears not their blueprints for dramatically interfering with the U.S. and world economies.
Sound and Fury criticizes "science by sound and bite" and congressional show trials complete with testimony that has not been peer-reviewed according to scientific standards. Among the misconceptions exposed is the claim that most scientists subscribe to the apocalyptic vision of global warming. Even Greenpeace's survey of scientists who participated in the major United Nations study of climate change found that only 13 percent of the respondents believed that failure to change our energy use would result in a runaway greenhouse effect.
Michaels shows that the slight warming over the last century has been far less than the prophets of the apocalypse would expect -- throwing the reliabitily of their computer climate models into doubt -- that most of it happened before industry's massive carbon dioxide emissions began, and that most of the warming is at night, when it produces benign effects such as longer growing seasons. In other words, the warming that has resulted from natural climatic processes is beneficial.
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About the Author
Patrick J. Michaels is an associate professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, state climatologist for the Commonwealth of Virginia, and senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute.
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What Others Have Said
"Environmental debate should be as open and free-wheeling as political debate -- and will be if Pat Michaels has his way."
--Gregg Easterbrook
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