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An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming
by: Nigel Lawson

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780715637869
ISBN: 071563786X
Label: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Manufacturer: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: April 10, 2008
Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Studio: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Sales Rank: 6955

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Just what it says on the tin
This is a wonderful book. As the title suggests, it is cool, reasonable, and patient, looking carefully at all the evidence and coming to conclusions which it is hard to disagree with.

Like other reviewers, I find it hard to take excerpts from the book because I would have to quote the whole thing! However, perhaps I may try to help anyone who is wondering whether to read it. One way to look at the global warming/climate change debate is to ask oneself three questions.

First, is the world getting warmer?
Second, is human activity, and specifically CO2, a major cause?
And third, does it matter? Will there be harmful consequences? And if so, what should we do about them?

Much of the ... Read More:

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- A call for solid science to replace the hype and hysteria
A well written and thought provoking book that attempts to speak above the hysterical din that dominates the subject.

The author calls for a considered approach and appeals to organisations to address the issues we face in a sensible and practical way.

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- Lawson knows best apparently
The combined wisdom of the world's leading climate change scientists is clearly no match for Nigel Lawson. He alone is clear sighted enough to see these clever people are all wrong. Stop worrying you people on coastlands and islands as you watch the tide rising. Stop fussing about those droughts Africa and Australia! Trust Nigel, everything will be well because...er because he says so.

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- Thought-provoking contribution
In this thought-provoking book, Nigel Lawson asks key questions about global warming. Is the world warming and if so, why? How much warmer will it get? What will be the consequences? What can and should we do about it? What is the most cost-effective way to tackle it?

He looks at the temperature record. Surprisingly, temperatures have not risen since 2001, even though global CO2 emissions have been rising faster than ever. There was a 0.7oC rise over the last century while the CO2 in the atmosphere rose by 30%, largely caused by industrialisation driven by the rapid worldwide growth of carbon-based energy consumption (burning coal, oil and gas). Some, possibly most, of the warming is due to this growth of CO2 emissions and so of ... Read More:

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- Deluded amateur challenges the science
Lawson flies in the face of scientific consensus with no solid basis for his position. An unhelpful book.

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