Book Notes

Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam by Brian Sussman is a good introduction to the subject, presenting the scientific evidence which the Climate Change lobby tries to suppress in a not-too-technical way. Drawing on two decaddes as an award-winning TV meteorologist and science reporter and his subsequent career as a radio talk show host, Sussman presents the case put forward for anthropogenic global warming and points out flaws in the data and the logic, as well as the conspiracy of outright fraud unveiled in 2009 by the leak of emails from one of the leading centers of research in this field, the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anlia. The technical stuff like the limitations of global temperature monitoring by various methods, the composition of the atmosphere and the relative efficiency of thos components in trapping heat in the atmoshere are covered, as well as the coral, polar bears and other "evidence" cited by Al Gore and the other hystericl voices on the Left. The last third of the book veers into some more or less related topics like energy policy, the "Smart Grid" and sutainable deelopment and discusses how false science is used to promote a coordinated attack on liberty.