“Patrick Michaels fully exploits his incomparable wit and credentialed expertise to dismantle the claim that catastrophic climate change is upon us. Using dozens of example, this working-stiff climatologist exposes the exaggerations and outright falsehoods promoted by the media industry hungry for ‘if it bleeds, it leads’ stories.”
Review comments by John R. Christy, Director,
Here
are some useful quotes from Meltdown.
“[the author and colleague] determined that only 33 percent of the 200+ “lead authors” [of the IPCC] are in fact climate scientists. Consequently, the ‘consensus’ that these documents achieve is in fact determined by a majority opinion that is not necessarily formally trained in the subject matter. Nor are the IPCC ‘assessments’ ‘peer-reviewed’ in the proper sense.”
With
respect to the
“In
this analysis, climatologist Rajmund Przybylak reported ‘No
evidence of any greenhouse warming in the
The 40% decline in Arctic sea-ice thickness is one of the most oft quoted lines from thousands of pages that comprise the IPCC’s Third Assessment Report: But it is incorrect; and was known to be incorrect before the IPCC published its Third Assessment Report.
About the Author:
Dr. Patrick J. Michaels is research Professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute. He is past president of the American Association of State Climatologists, winner of the American Library Association's worldwide competition for public service writing, and an author of the 2003 climate science "Paper of the Year", awarded by the Association of American Geographers.
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