Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The spirit of enquiry
- 2 Global warming
- 3 Weather is not climate
- 4 The thermostat
- 5 Droughts and flooding rains
- 6 Snow and ice
- 7 The ocean
- 8 From ice-house to greenhouse
- 9 The past 2000 years
- 10 Carbon dioxide and methane
- 11 Denial
- 12 Bet your grandchildren’s lives on it, too?
- Notes
- Index
- References
11 - Denial
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The spirit of enquiry
- 2 Global warming
- 3 Weather is not climate
- 4 The thermostat
- 5 Droughts and flooding rains
- 6 Snow and ice
- 7 The ocean
- 8 From ice-house to greenhouse
- 9 The past 2000 years
- 10 Carbon dioxide and methane
- 11 Denial
- 12 Bet your grandchildren’s lives on it, too?
- Notes
- Index
- References
Summary
‘Contrariwise’, continued Tweedledee, ‘if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.’
Lewis CarrollTHE SCIENCE OF NO CLIMATE CHANGE
At the start of this book I wrote: I will not be selecting the reports that support (or deny) any particular view of the subject, but I will be selecting reports that have the authenticity that comes from peer review and then public exposure. Now we are approaching the end of the book, and you must be asking: ‘Where is the science that contradicts the theory of climate change?’ You may well have read contrary conclusions to those presented here, in the newspapers or on the internet or in other books. Surely there is a body of science that underpins those views? So why is none of that included in this book?
The answer is because there is no such body of knowledge. I looked. I searched extensively. After finding very little of repute, I turned to the writings of those who declare themselves to be sceptics on the subject.
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- A Short Introduction to Climate Change , pp. 167 - 184Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012