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& REVIEWS ONE SMALL STEP? has many critics including in by Gerhard Wisnewski specialised scientific fields who claim Clairview Books, UK, 2007 he's quoted their work out of context ISBN 978-1-905570-12-6 (390pp tpb) or is just plain wrong. Plimer is no Available: www.clairviewbooks.com stranger to controversy, having made he race for space has been fraught _ (and lost) a challenge to creationism with disasters, as Gerhard in the 1990s in the Australian courts. Wisnewski documents in his gripping _ Drawing on studies from diverse and damning analysis. Not merelya _ fields including astrophysics, study of anomalies showing up on climatology, oceanography, plate Moon photos, One Small Step? takes ectonics, solar physics, vulcanology aim at both American and Russian as well as geology, Dr Plimer takes a deceptions and travesties in the Cold long-term, big-picture perspective, War era of propaganda interplay. going back hundreds 0 millions of In part one, Wisnewski reveals that years into the geological record. He the USSR dared not mention its concludes that the Earth has always many failures and yet faked its had climate variation, often involving successes; for example, Yuri Gagarin, ™aior flux events. He equates the the so-called first man in space, was _Tecent climate change hysteria with merely a pawn who was parachuted religious fundamentalism, and rejects to his landing target by aeroplane. computer models in favour of real- In part two, focussing on the USA, world observations which show that Wisnewski reviews the disasters from the planet is not warming and tha which it can be concluded that the emissions of carbon dioxide (a Americans never landed on the secondary greenhouse gas) are no Moon—or at least not using reaching an alarming level. conventional rocket technology. The Dr Plimer cites evidence for the Apollo missions were "the best South Pacific atoll of Tuvalu, in a simulations of all time", he asserts. seismically active zone, actually However, on another tack, he says sinking; any sporadic tidal that "unauthorised" mentions by inundations are not due to global astronauts of UFOs observed on and __limate change, as the doomsayers near the Moon take the heat off other have been claiming for two decades. conspiracy ponderings about “flags, He maintains that the peer-reviewed shadows and snapshots taken against _ literature is near-unanimous in not the light" and constitute what he predicting climate catastrophe. He is calls an "accompanying myth" and adamant that climate change is not more specifically, "the UFO trap" ’ human-induced but that natural Wisnewski. also a documentary drivers of climate have a much filmmaker, exposes many more long- greater impact than we could ever held secrets to startle the reader. have. Examine the data for yourself. HEAVEN AND EARTH by Ian Plimer Connor Court, Vic., Australia, 2009 ISBN 978-1-921421-14-3 (503pp tpb) Available: www.connorcourt.com lhe daggers were out for geologist Dr Ian Plimer even before his book was published in April, and the situation has been exacerbated because the only people supporting his view seem to be right-leaning commentators. Having slammed the IPCC, Stern and Garnaut reports, he ONE SMALL STEP? by Gerhard Wisnewski Clairview Books, UK, 2007 ISBN 978-1-905570-12-6 (390pp tpb) Available: www.clairviewbooks.com lhe race for space has been fraught with disasters, as Gerhard Wisnewski documents in his gripping and damning analysis. Not merely a study of anomalies showing up on Moon photos, One Small Step? takes aim at both American and Russian deceptions and travesties in the Cold War era of propaganda interplay. In part one, Wisnewski reveals that the USSR dared not mention its many failures and yet faked its successes; for example, Yuri Gagarin, the so-called first man in space, was merely a pawn who was parachuted to his landing target by aeroplane. In part two, focussing on the USA, Wisnewski reviews the disasters from which it can be concluded that the Americans never landed on the Moon—cr at least not using conventional rocket technology. The Apollo missions were "the best simulations of all time", he asserts. However, on another tack, he says hat "unauthorised" mentions by astronauts of UFOs observed on and near the Moon take the heat off other conspiracy ponderings about "flags, shadows and snapshots taken against he light" and constitute what he calls an "accompanying myth" and, more specifically, "the UFO trap". Wisnewski, also a documentary ilmmaker, exposes many more long- held secrets to startle the reader. HEAVEN AND EARTH by Ian Plimer Connor Court, Vic., Australia, 2009 ISBN 978-1-921421-14-3 (503pp tpb) Available: www.connorcourt.com lhe daggers were out for geologist Dr Ian Plimer even before his book was published in April, and the situation has been exacerbated because the only people supporting his view seem to be right-leaning commentators. Having slammed the IPCC, Stern and Garnaut reports, he JUNE — JULY 2009 NEXUS ¢ 77 www.nexusmagazine.com