The Inquisition of Climate Science / / James Powell.
Modern science is under the greatest and most successful attack in recent history. An industry of denial, abetted by news media and "info-tainment" broadcasters more interested in selling controversy than presenting facts, has duped half the American public into rejecting the facts of clim...
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Not Skeptics, Deniers
- 1. Science and Potemkin Science
- 2. Adventures in Denierland
- 3. The Evidence for Consensus
- 4. Discovery of Global Warming
- 5. The Greenhouse Effect: From Curiosity to Threat
- 6. Global Warming: All You Really Need to Know in One Chart
- 7. Tobacco Tactics: The Scientist-Deniers
- 8. Fear of State: The Nonscientists
- 9. Toxic Tanks
- 10. An Industry to Trust
- 11. Balance as Bias: How the Media Missed "The Story of the Century"
- 12. Science Under Attack
- 13. Greatest Hoax in History?
- 14. Climategate: Much Ado About Nothing
- 15. Anatomy of Denial
- 16. Escalating Tactics
- 17. Earning Trust
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index