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Presents a collection of essays that document the pervasive influence of global warming alarmism on all aspects of American society

Examines the validity of revisions to the surface (land only) temperature data pertinent to the global warming debate to determine whether variation in surface temperature across sites across the world is related to non-climactic socioeconomic variables. Regression models of 1979-2002 data are used to find what would be considered biases that could then be removed, leaving only purely climactic warming trends. Findings reveal that significant non-climactic warming has occurred in global land-surface temperature records rooted in socioeconomic factors, suggesting that as much as half of the land-surface warming detected in recent decades could be spurious. Figures. Adapted from the source document.

In Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything, Michaels and Knappenberger, two scientists with more than half a century experience between them, explore the realities and myths of global warming--which is more likely to be lukewarm rather than hot.

Global warming is vastly overrated as an environmental threat, argue leading climatologists Patrick J. Michaels and Robert Balling, Jr. Former Vice President Gore staked much of his career on a largely mythical problem, they write. Unlike every other book on global warming, The Satanic Gases places the issue in its proper social and scientific context. Citing the pioneering work of historian of science Thomas Kuhn and economist James Buchanan, Michaels and Balling demonstrate that it was inevitable that global warming would be distorted by the political sphere and that most scientists would either stand mute or actually assist in that process. But, the authors argue, such distortions in science are always temporary, and inevitably the scientific community will concede that earlier forecasts dramatically exaggerated the threat of global warming.