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Unstoppable global warming : every 1,500 years / S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery.

By: Singer, S. Fred (Siegfried Fred), 1924-.
Contributor(s): Avery, Dennis T.
Publisher: Lanham, Md. ; Plymouth : Rowman & Littlefield, c2008Edition: Updated and expanded ed.Description: xxii, 278 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780742551244; 0742551245.Subject(s): Global warming | Global temperature changes | Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric | Greenhouse effectDDC classification: 363.73874
Contents:
Should we fear global warming? -- Part 1. The 1,500-year old climate cycle. How did we find Earth's 1,500-year climate cycle? The sun-climate connection. Warming and cooling in human history. The Earth tells its own story of past climate cycles -- Part 2. Predicting future climates. Shattered glass in the greenhouse. Fraud and deceit in selling man-made global warming. How far can we trust global climate models? -- Part 3. Baseless fears about global warming. Rising sea levels. Species extinction. Famine and drought. More violent weather. Human deaths. -- Part 4. Responding to global warming. The Kyoto protocol. Alternative energy.
Summary: Argues that global warming is a natural, cyclical phenomenon that has not been caused by human activities and that its negative consequences have been greatly overestimated.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU St Angela's McKeown Library Main Lending Collection 363.73874 SIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available T35489
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Includes index.

Previous ed.: 2007.

Should we fear global warming? -- Part 1. The 1,500-year old climate cycle. How did we find Earth's 1,500-year climate cycle? The sun-climate connection. Warming and cooling in human history. The Earth tells its own story of past climate cycles -- Part 2. Predicting future climates. Shattered glass in the greenhouse. Fraud and deceit in selling man-made global warming. How far can we trust global climate models? -- Part 3. Baseless fears about global warming. Rising sea levels. Species extinction. Famine and drought. More violent weather. Human deaths. -- Part 4. Responding to global warming. The Kyoto protocol. Alternative energy.

Argues that global warming is a natural, cyclical phenomenon that has not been caused by human activities and that its negative consequences have been greatly overestimated.

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