The Real Global Warming Disaster

Is the Obsession with 'Climate Change' Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History?

By: Christopher Booker

Narrated by: Ric Jerrom

Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

This original audiobook considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe from runaway global warming, and how today this has persuaded politicians to land us with what promises to be the biggest bill in history.

Christopher Booker interweaves the science of global warming with that of its growing political consequences, showing how just when the politicians are threatening to change our Western way of life beyond recognition, the scientific evidence behind the global warming theory is being challenged like never before.

The audiobook exposes the myth that the global warming theory is supported by a 'consensus of the world's top climate scientists'. It shows how the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is run by a small group of 'global warming' zealots, who have repeatedly rigged evidence to support their theory. But the politicians, pushed by the media, have so fallen for its propaganda that, short of dramatic change, our Western world now faces an unprecedented disaster.

©2009, 2010 Christopher Booker (P)2013 Audible Inc.

The truth behind the "Global Warming" curtain.

What did you love best about The Real Global Warming Disaster?

Exposing the political and corporate motivation behind the sham. I believe that our climate is a dynamic system with many factors that can affect the day to day weather as well as the more long term affects on our climate and is not an anthropogenic event. The use of risk models and maps to predict the long term climate change has an inherent, although not immediately apparent, flaw: dependability. Not one of them is taking into consideration the role of sunspots and solar wind and their affect on our climate cycles. Scientists believe that the number of spots on the sun cycles over time, reaching a peak—the so-called Solar Maximum—every 11 years or so. Some studies indicate that sunspot activity overall has doubled in the last century. The apparent result down here on Earth is that the sun glows brighter by about 0.1 percent now than it did 100 years ago.

I you hate being scammed, read this book!

An excellent and well referenced book on the "Global Warming/Climate Change" swindle being perpetrated by
"Scientists" and Governments around the world.
Declaring it "Settled Science" is NOT how Science works. If new information is presented, you retest your hypothesis in the acid bath of the new information, not dismiss the information and declare the information invalid.

The naked truth!

Absolute confirmation of the reasons for climate change. Go figure...our sun and it's decades and centuries of solar radiation variations, sun spots and prominences. Duh!!! We need another follow up book about the CERN particle accelerator discoveries showing co2 as minuscule to the equation and the cosmic radiation from our sun as the lion share.

All should read and know this truth.

It was well presented and very informative. The information was timely and interesting. You will gain much understanding on the topic of global warm and a real truth.

Almost Too Thorough

This book is, of course, biased, but not nearly as much as the constant news releases related to the "scientific consensus" and "the latest science". Many of the assertions made by Booker cannot be denied. I happen to have two science degrees and have worked in the the fields of forestry, forest pathology, and general environmental science for over 40 years. I was disappointed that Booker did not even mention the most glaring bad science in Mann's Bristlecone Pine "study". I'm not the statistical wizards that McIntyre and McKitrick are, but I DO know a thing or two about trees and their physiology. There is NO WAY that you can derive reliable temperature inferences from growth ring studies. The reason for this is that the radial growth of trees involves AT LEAST three other factors besides temperatures, and, I would vehemently argue, these factors taken each unto their own, are likely MORE important than temperature. Moisture, competition for favorable conditions like light, protection from wind, and other microsite factors CANNOT be separated from temperature and have much more effect on both spring and summer radial growth. So to draw any inference from radial growth related to temperature would be an impossible task. When proxy data is really all one has, one is tempted to make it sing and dance and perform all sorts of things it simply cannot perform. So.... back to this book ....

It is well-researched and still valid even though, what, eight years old now? Methinks, however, that they repeated some points one or two times more than necessary... to the point where, by the appendices, I had to stop listening. I think the number of times certain points were hammered on made the arguments made somehow less convincing.

Overall, good job, and keep fighting the good fight. This nonsense has gone on far too long, the general public has become a bunch of mindless automatons who repeat the same old press releases over and over. "Science" is not on the side of any political party. I happen to believe that there is very likely some anthropogenic effect related to climate change. But I have yet to read a very good paper making this case, and the hyperbole and vitriol surrounding this issue is toxic to REASON itself.

Real scientific evidence

If you could sum up The Real Global Warming Disaster in three words, what would they be?

TruthRealityBelief

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Real Global Warming Disaster?

President Obama is put as solely responsible for saving the world.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

The idiosyncrasy and sadness that exists with the political view of something that has been blown off tract by a few egoist and the massive extent of those engaged.
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A service to the world

A must read on the greatest scam in history.
Written in chronological order, it can serve as a great reference.

Great data and history

Great book. So much good data. The history is very important for understanding the truth.

The message made my blood boil

Mr Booker reveals, point by point, all the lies, doctoring of data, political collusion, and name calling of any who dare challenge the "consensus". If only half of what he reveals is true, then the global warming, or climate change, hysteria is the biggest scam ever perpetrated on the world. And the goal seems to be the collapse of capitalism and the creation of one world government, led by the UN.

Finally, an explanation.

I've read a lot about climate change--on both sides.

I feel like understand the science pretty well, but I have always been mystified as to how so many smart people could disagree with each other on such simple issues.

Booker's history details the creation of the IPCC, and the political baby steps which got us here. In each case, a small group acted in their own interest, and each step seemed almost reasonable. But the net effect has been this wide-scale tragedy, that will scar and shame the scientific community for generations.

As someone who really loves science, I hate to see it abused. This book offered little peace, but gave me a lot of understanding.