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The Inquisition of Climate Science

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Description for The Inquisition of Climate Science Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 line drawings. BIC Classification: RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 223 x 15. Weight in Grams: 322. 272 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: RNPG. Dimension: 150 x 223 x 15. Weight: 322.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231157193
SKU
V9780231157193
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About James Powell
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 ... Read more

Reviews for The Inquisition of Climate Science
This book is a winner, written in an easy, logical style with thorough and fascinating discussions of major deniers.
Orrin Pilkey, Duke University, coauthor of The Rising Sea With the evidence for global warming so strong, why, Powell asks, does half the American public doubt it? His answer is a history of the campaign of denial, the most comprehensive ... Read more

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