Apologia for the Status Quo...
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Although this book likes to present itself as a libertarian tract against the tyranny of the 'green menace', it is essentially the work of an establishment figure chiding anyone with the audacity to try and restructure the world order that has served him and his ilk so well. Like it or not, the climate issue has been politisized and big business is starting to get hot under the collar as more and more people become aware of the irreversible damage the current model is wreaking on the planet. So expect to see more books like this, enlisting 'authority figues' and payrolled scientists to repudiate fact and defend unending growth and rapacious consumption in the name of 'reason' and 'common sense'. Sceptisism is a healthy and laudable trait, but it must have some basis in reality to avoid sounding like reactionary bluster.
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A complete waste of trees.
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It's astonishing that Nigel Lawson's scientifically illiterate book has garnered so many glowing reviews. There's a 'howler' on almost every page and Lawson(a non-scientist) arrogantly dismisses the work of the world's climatologists, meteorologists and other scientists(including Nobel Prize winners) who have provided overwhelming evidence for the reality of manmade global warming. 'An Appeal To Reason' will appeal to unreasonable, rightwing climate-change deniers who feel that their carbon-rich lifestyles are threatened by environmentalists. For others, who hope for a habitable planet in the future, Lawson's lamentable book is a complete waste of trees.
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At last - Sanity prevails!
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Lord Lawson has stood up to be counted - and great praise is due for this stand. He could not get an UK publisher to touch this book.
He is simply challenging what has becoming the received wisdom of the climate debate - and which has now become "The Emperor's Clothes" syndrome.
As a non-scientist, he is cautious in questioning the basic science but he challenges the way the IPCC has manipulated, extrapolated and projected questionable science.
He, quite rightly, pours scorn and vitriol on the Stern Report, which is mostly a scurrilous rehashing of junk science and junk news.
Lord Lawson portrays the Global Warming debate as a hugely biased and self-fulfilling gravy train. It is being pushed along by environmental fundamentalists and self-serving bureaucrats who have stopped listening to reason.
He portrays a future scenario that bears no resemblance to the promised Armageddon beloved of the ecomaniacs.
Please read his careful and authoritative words - this is the truth of the matter of global warming.
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Open Minded
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Considering that it was when Lawson was in power under Thatcher that Global warming was first talked about I find this whole book highly hypocritical and slightly dangerous. Yes scientist are only 90% Global warming is down to us, but science is only ever 90% sure. Lawson is right he is no scientist. This book is simply tosh.
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A blueprint
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This is a very well written and thought-out book. The current Government and the opposition parties could do worse than to use this as a blueprint for their policies towards the global warming issue.
Politicians believe that unless you 'toe the climate change line' you will lose votes, which just goes to show how out of touch all the mainstream parties are and the scepticism the average voter greets the wild claims made in the media, on a daily basis, regarding this subject.
The UK's biggest threat at the moment is the ignorance of its Government and the lack of serious opposition to its beliefs and policies.
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