The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism)

By: Christopher C. Horner

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins

Publisher's summary

The big media have spoken on the question of global warming, and the debate is officially over. "Be afraid, be very afraid", warns Time magazine. But have Al Gore and his environmentalist allies really proven their case? Not even close, says Christopher C. Horner.

In The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism), he exposes the shoddy science, plain dishonesty, and hidden political agenda behind the biggest phony environmental scare since, well, since green predictions of catastrophic global cooling in the 1970s.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) provides a provocative, entertaining, and well documented exposé of some of the most shamelessly politicized pseudoscience we are likely to see in our relatively cool lifetimes.

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©2007 Christopher C. Horner (P)2007 Blackstone Audio Inc.

Playground Fight

If you cut out all the childish name calling, half facts, dubious statements, and spin you actually have a pretty good book...it would only be about 2 hours long, but good.
There are some interesting statements, such as closing of weather stations accounting for changes in measurement, but then there is no attempt to go go back and correct the data. It is almost as though there is a fear of telling all the facts.
As most of these book long diatribes go, it's a so-so starting point to understanding the issues. It's just really irritating to hear people in a policy debate sound so immature. I want to scream "Grow up!"
The narration is excellent. You almost believe the narrator is expressing his own views...though these views are so dogmatic it is hard to believe anyone subscribes to a majority of them without putting tongue in cheek.

Don't Bother

In short: Extremist and illogical rant by an oil company shill. Not worth the listen...and I find almost ANYTHING worth a listen. This is just too obviously an oil company (EXXON) funded absurdist view of environmentalist thought and action. WAY off the deep end annd an embarrasment to those who believe that environmentalists have gone too far.

Not totally wrong, but...

This book is filled with so much sarcasm and hyperbole that it totally masks the authors message. There are some legitimate points to be made here, but the book is so laced with anti-Gore sentiment, and sarcasm about the "Greenies", that any accuracy he is trying to make about errors in the hypothesis of global warming lack credibility. He should have taken a far more objective approach and left the emotion at home. This author clearly has an agenda, and it overpowers any message he is trying to deliver about the chicken little nature of the global warming scare.

Flawed

I was unimpressed with Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”, but I was even less impressed by this fuming cacophony. The book starts by implying most “green” activists are “reds” (communists) and it ends with a long section deriding the press for declaring that W did not sign Kyoto, stalled Kyoto, or repudiated Kyoto. His point (the press is sloppy and/or has an agenda) is clearly true (nevertheless W clearly would not have signed and does not support Kyoto). There were a few interesting or informative points, but the author demonstrates bias and vitriol thus lost my trust.

Just political demagoguery

I bought this book so that I could get full perspective on global warming and its effects on the future of Earth. I read a few books on the subject. The most recent was "The Weather Makers" by Tom Flannery. Flannery's book was full of data and research findings. It gave a compelling argument for global warming and the influence of greenhouse gasses. The book, "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming" did not.

The author, Christopher Horner, did not site one single scientifically researched data point. Instead, he casted dispersions on the environmental movement and environmentalist in general. He equated environmentalism with communism and the desire for the destruction of capitalism. He writes that all environmental concerns stems from the desire to end capitalism. He is a right wing demigod with no evidence to back his claims other than the right wing talking points we've all heard before from the likes of Rush Limbaugh. I guess the title should have given me a clue, but I thought that perhaps it contained something of value. I was wrong.

This book contain no facts, only political rubbish. It added nothing to the conversation of global warming. They all should find their way into recycling bins. I'm still looking for a science based book that can provide balance to the dire warnings in the media. The closest I came was Crichton's novel "State of Fear", but that was fiction and the science was full of holes (although a very good read).

Name calling and straw man

As a skeptical environmentalist I hoped to hear some compelling arguments against the dominant paradigm of global heating and human caused environmental catastrophe, because I do think the environmental movement is prone to exaggeration and dogma on some issues. Unfortunately, this book put forth nothing more than name calling and straw man attacks. Limping environmentalists into the same group as Soviet communism for example makes no sense and does nothing to undermine the science of global warming. The authors simultaneously attacks efforts to regulate CO2 while lauding the free market (actually world cooperative regulation) for fixing the hole in the ozone layer, which he admits was a problem but somehow the greenhouse effect is not. He tries to claim environmentalism is a religion when in fact is obviously just a set of values like conservatism or feminism. He lauds the wealth of capitalism while attacking the elites it generated. Mostly it’s just one unjustified insult, hyperbolic generalization and distorted logic after the other. This book only makes me loose more respect for the climate deniers and strengthens my conviction that the world’s societies and governments must cooperate to transition to a much more sustainable economy and lifestyle.