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Inconvenient facts, the science that Al Gore doesn't want you to know, Gregory Wrightstone

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-143)

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Inconvenient facts

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Gregory Wrightstone

the science that Al Gore doesn't want you to know

Writing in plain English and providing easily understood charts and figures, Gregory Wrightstone presents the science to assess the basis of the threatened Thermageddon

I. Global warming, the basics -- 1. Greenhouse gases ; Our security blanket ; Summary ; Greenhouse gasses -- 2. Carbon dioxide ; The foundation of life, the food of plants ; CO2, the basics ; Earth's carbon dioxide history ; Is 400 PPM really a CO2 tipping point? ; The social benefits of increasing carbon ; Summary, CO2 and humankind -- 3. Temperature, a question of degree ; The hockey-stick graph and "unprecednted" global warming ; Why the "hockey-stick" graph matters ; Modern instrumental data ; Some important charts ; Stepping millions of years back in time ; Climate models" accurate, inaccurate or useless? ; Winter's coming: is another Ice Age on its way? ; Climate and culture: very good and very bad ; summaryII. Apocalypse? No! Colimate apocalypse myths -- "97% consensus", what consensus? -- Water, water everywhere: how droughts are declining -- Forest fires: fanning the flames of needless panic -- Famine: the best solution is more CO2 and increasing temperature -- Heat and life, cold and death -- In a whirl about tornadoes -- Hurricanes: politicising tragedy -- Polar bears are doing just fine, thank you -- Ocean acidity: climate pHraud -- Sea-level rise: King Canute couldn't stop it, nor can we -- Summary: The benefits of principled inaction -- List of inconvenient facts -- References

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