The Inquisition of Climate Science.

Powell, James Lawrence.

ISBN 10: 0231157193 / ISBN 13: 9780231157193

Editore: Columbia University Press, New York, 2011

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Paperback trade, very good condition, figures, spine lightly faded, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear. 232 pp. James Lawrence Powel writes the first book to comprehensively take on the climate science denial movement and the deniers themselves, exposing their lack of credentials, extensive industry funding, and their failure to give any reliable and valid alternative theory to explain the observed evidence of warming.

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• Titolo: The Inquisition of Climate Science.
• Editore: Columbia University Press, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0231157193
• ISBN 13: 9780231157193
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Edizione: Reprint ed.
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • ENVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION

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Riassunto

Modern science is under the greatest and most successful attack in recent history. An industry of denial, abetted by news media and "info-tainment" broadcasters more interested in selling controversy than presenting facts, has duped half the American public into rejecting the facts of climate science—an overwhelming body of rigorously vetted scientific evidence showing that human-caused, carbon-based emissions are linked to warming the Earth. The industry of climate science denial is succeeding: public acceptance has declined even as the scientific evidence for global warming has increased. It is vital that the public understand how anti-science ideologues, pseudo-scientists, and non-scientists have bamboozled them. We cannot afford to get global warming wrong—yet we are, thanks to deniers and their methods.

The Inquisition of Climate Science is the first book to comprehensively take on the climate science denial movement and the deniers themselves, exposing their lack of credentials, their extensive industry funding, and their failure to provide any alternative theory to explain the observed evidence of warming. In this book, readers meet the most prominent deniers while dissecting their credentials, arguments, and lack of objectivity. James Lawrence Powell shows that the deniers use a wide variety of deceptive rhetorical techniques, many stretching back to ancient Greece. Carefully researched, fully referenced, and compellingly written, his book clearly reveals that the evidence of global warming is real and that an industry of denial has deceived the American public, putting them and their grandchildren at risk.

Informazioni sull?autore

James Lawrence Powell was born and raised in Kentucky and graduated from Berea College. He received his Ph.D. in Geochemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has had a distinguished career as a college teacher, college president, museum director, and author of books on earth science for general audiences. He serves as executive director of the National Physical Science Consortium, a partnership among government agencies and laboratories, industry, and higher education dedicated to increasing the number of American citizens with graduate degrees in the physical sciences and related engineering fields, emphasizing recruitment of a diverse applicant pool that includes women and minorities. He has taught at Oberlin College and has served as its acting president. He has also been president of Franklin and Marshall College, Reed College, the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Both Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush appointed Powell to the National Science Board.