Research Catalog

Title

Taken by storm : the troubled science, policy, and politics of global warming / by Christopher Essex and Ross McKitrick.

Author

Essex, Christopher

Publication

Toronto : Key Porter Books, c2007.

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Additional Authors

McKitrick, Ross

Description

356 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The physical phenomena in climate and weather are among the most complex in nature, and science can say very little about what they will do in the future. Yet a large international policy framework has been built precisely on the assumption that we know what is happening and how to control it. In Taken by Storm, Christopher Essex and Ross McKitrick prove this assumption false, carefully explaining the science of climate change and deconstructing the widespread myth of global warming. They argue that the connection between science and society is disintegrating, and they propose a vital first step toward repairing this relationship."--Jacket.

Subject

• Climatologie
• Climatology
• Global warming > Government policy
• Global warming
• Réchauffement de la terre > Politique gouvernementale
• Réchauffement de la terre
• Science and civilization
• Sciences et civilisation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-349) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. A voice from the whirlwind -- 2. The convection of certainty -- 3. Climate theory versus models and metaphors -- 4. T-Rex devours the planet -- 5. T-Rex plays hockey -- 6. The unusual suspects -- 7. Uncertainty and nescience -- 8. Ceiling-fan gases and the global blowing crisis -- 9. Kyoto, Son of Doctrine -- 10. After Doctrine.

ISBN

• 9781552639467 (pbk.)
• 1552639460 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008360232

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library