The Real Global Warming Disaster

The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the obsession with 'climate change' turning out to be the most costly scientific blunder in history? | Christopher Booker

#naturalitsywintersolace #nonfiction recommendation

As this book won my nonfiction bracket for best read of 2023, I can't really not highlight it for this week!

Yes, I know the author is a conspiracy theorist, but this book really opened my eyes to some of the science (NOT A STRONG SUBJECT FOR ME) and some of the possible solutions. I'm NOT a climate change denier, but this book made me question what we're being told in the news.

@AllDebooks

jenniferw88 @TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit 11mo

wanderinglynn I haven‘t read this book, but I‘m skeptical just from reading the blurb. Scientists learned back in the late 1950s that CO2 concentrations were rising and climate modeling began in the late 1960s. It sounds a lot like he‘s a debunker trying to frame it as if he isn‘t. If you‘re interested in the topic, I can recommend some better books, with better sourced science, than this one. 11mo

jenniferw88 @wanderinglynn Thanks, I may pick your brain later for recs. I've also read this one, which is sort of 'in conversation with' the tagged

The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet

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Chrissyreadit I do worry about this- climate has been surveyed for far longer than that and there is robust science to show the impact of man beginning with the industrial age. We addressed some of this when we changed how aerosols were made and used. The biggest difference in the 80‘ was that it was not just scientists talking about it. Factory farming was growing in an unprecedented way and environmental activists were recognizing there was an impact there. 11mo

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The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the obsession with 'climate change' turning out to be the most costly scientific blunder in history? | Christopher Booker

#midyearbookfreakout @Klou

1. Tagged
2. A Day of Fallen Night
3. Hijab Butch Blues
4. Oh, Miriam by Miriam Margolyes.
5. The Road to Jonestown
6. The Women Could Fly
7. Taylor Jenkins Reid
8. Hiroko Tanaka from Burnt Shadows
9. Madly, Deeply
10. Fantastic Mr Fox
11. The Sun Over the Mountains
12. Station Eleven / Get a Life, Chloe Brown / Red, White & Royal Blue

peaKnit Miriam has another coming yay! 1y

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jenniferw88

The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the obsession with 'climate change' turning out to be the most costly scientific blunder in history? | Christopher Booker

#nonfiction #readingbracket2023 was slightly easier, as I have definitely gone done a climate change rabbit hole! @chasjjlee

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jenniferw88

The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the obsession with 'climate change' turning out to be the most costly scientific blunder in history? | Christopher Booker

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OK, the book needs to be proof-read again (punctuation marks and capital letters are all over the place in parts), some of the science went over my head and it is a bit repetitive towards the end, but I learned lots!

🌍 The IPCC can't be trusted to provide accurate data, & is biased towards man causing global warming
🌍 Climate change is more likely to be caused from radiation from the sun & changing ocean currents ⬇️

jenniferw88 🌍 Wind turbines are pretty ineffective 1y

jenniferw88 🌍 Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is way OTT & inaccurate 1y

jenniferw88 Challenges: #climatechange #naturalitsybingo2023 @AllDebooks , #pop23 #setindecadeIwasborn, #52bookclub2023 #withadedication @Cinfhen @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB @Deblovestoread @RaeLovesToRead @squirrelbrain @LeeRHarry @AshleyHoss820 @MissHel @Bluebird 1y

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jenniferw88 Oh, and book #6 for #14books14weeks23 @TheHeartlandBookFairy 1y

Cinfhen Wow!! Very “cool” 😉 1y

Amiable Given that Booker also claimed there was no danger from asbestos or second-hand smoke, I tend to toss his work into the conspiracy-theorist pile. 1y

Librarybelle Lots of challenges and amazing progress on #14books14weeks23 ! 1y

jenniferw88 @Amiable that was apparently a different type of asbestos. The argument in this book is pretty convincing. 1y

Amiable @jenniferw88 Conspiracy theories always are—that‘s why the people who create them can get traction for their claims. 1y

AllDebooks Wow, that ticks a lot of challenge boxes. Sounds very conflicting with current reserach data. I'd be interested to see his sources. 1y

jenniferw88 @AllDebooks this is one of his sources. https://wattsupwiththat.com/ 1y

jenniferw88 @AllDebooks and another! https://climateaudit.org/ 1y

AllDebooks @jenniferw88 these are blog posts. I find it very hard to accept these as credible scientific sources and having a few articles on Booker, I would be reluctant to believe his proof without cross checking other sources. 1y

jenniferw88 @AllDebooks I'd be happy to send the book on... I'm pretty convinced! 1y

jenniferw88 @AllDebooks I think the blog posts will link to the scientific reports (& the blogs are written by the scientists he mentions in the book - I should have made that clearer). X 1y

GingerAntics I‘ve heard all of this before… from climate change deniers. An Inconvenient Truth is actually praised by climate scientists around the globe. The only way this is convincing is if you‘re willing to believe that the vast majority of scientists on the planet are incompetent, and they have all misread their various data point wrong, but have somehow all managed to read them wrong in the exact same way. This man is nothing but a conspiracy theorist. 1y

GingerAntics All one needs to know about Booker is that he believes George W Bush is smart enough to see through scientific lies. 🙄 Please tell me your next read is going to be about the grassy knoll, on the flat earth, where no one ever landed on the moon (but while on the moon we didn‘t land on, aliens told humans never to come back to the moon, which is why we haven‘t returned in decades and we‘re only returning now because we think our weapons… 1y

GingerAntics are better than theirs). 🤣😂🤣💀💀💀 1y

jenniferw88 And June's #tbrtarot @CBee 1y

Ephemera Even if we can‘t positively say for certain that humans are causing global warming, we shouldn‘t ignore that it‘s happening. As they say, there is no planet B, this one is it. I‘ll be gone by the time it gets intolerable but the children of today will never forgive us if we sit around and do nothing. 1y

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The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the obsession with 'climate change' turning out to be the most costly scientific blunder in history? | Christopher Booker

#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

OK, I've been reading this for a while and it's fascinating, even though it's 13 years since publication.

#naturalitsy @AllDebooks I'm afraid George Monbiot isn't coming across very well so far when he's mentioned!

AllDebooks Monbiot is a tad controversial, some love him, some hate him. I lean towards the former but by no means agree with everything he says 1y

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jenniferw88

The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the obsession with 'climate change' turning out to be the most costly scientific blunder in history? | Christopher Booker

#weeklyforecast @Cinfhen

Start (& probably finish! 😂) The Sun over the Mountains
Start Birnam Wood
Continue bottom 3 (started tagged last night)

Cinfhen 😜 1y

AllDebooks Nice selection. I hope you enjoy Birnham wood. 1y

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