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& REVIEWS CHILL: A reassessment of global AIR CON warming theory by lan Wishart by Peter Taylor Howling At The Moon Publishing Ltd, Clairview Books, UK, 2009 North Harbour, New Zealand, 2009 ISBN 978-I-905570-19-5 (404pp tpb) ISBN 978-0-9582401-4-7 (285pp tpb) Available: www.clairviewbooks.com Available: www.ianwishart.com [ister of planning for the he "consensus" that human- consequences of a predicted rise in caused carbon dioxide emissions global warming in 50-100 years’ time, are causing global warming is firmly we should be preparing for the rejected by New Zealand imminent threat presented by a independent investigative journalist current cooling period, says British lan Wishart in his engaging and environmental scientist Peter Taylor, heavily referenced book. While not a A policy directed towards reducing scientist, he set out to see for himself greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per __ whether the science is really "settled" cent by 2050 will have a huge, on anthropogenic global warming. negative impact on our environment, | Armed with evidence that the "global biodiversity and community. With no warming industry" is conning the policy aimed at tackling global people, he queries the logic behind cooling, we can expect a decline in rying to enforce harsh measures to food production and major famines. | reduce CO2 emissions that are going Taylor concludes that the IPCC © cost taxpayers thousands of assessments on global warming are _—- dollars a year and cause the collapse wrong and that the consensus is a of western civilisation. Yet he also false construct from the summary avours reducing pollution and material aimed at policymakers. He protecting the environment. says that future projections of global Among the reports Wishart cites is warming are flawed for many reasons, €Vidence that the Sun in an active including that they don't consider the phase warms the Earth, but it can impact of long- and short-term ake 800-1,000 years for CO2 levels to natural cycles of the Sun and Earth. rise in response (thus any warming In his section on the science, Taylor hat started with industrialisation explains the pattern of natural might be from the lag following the causes, the satellite data that Mediaeval Warm Period). contradict global warming theory, Wishart slams political and evidence for changing cloud cover scientific agendas and the quasi- and the role of oscillating ocean religious fervour of global warming cycles. He discusses Arctic and believers in vilifying "climate change Antarctic climate variations, deniers". He also suggests what we variabilities in solar radiation, and can do to try to restore common cosmic rays as a possible missing sense to this very hot topic. ink in our scientific understanding. Regarding the politics of global warming, Taylor shows how the consensus developed and overruled dissent among other scientists and how media and environmental groups have colluded in generating a "dangerously naive message that now drives government action worldwide". He proposes a remedy based on creating human support systems that are resilient to whatever climate change the future may bring. A measured, thought-provoking study. CHILL: A reassessment of global warming theory by Peter Taylor Clairview Books, UK, 2009 ISBN 978-1-905570-19-5 (404pp tpb) Available: www.clairviewbooks.com [ister of planning for the consequences of a predicted rise in global warming in 50-100 years’ time, we should be preparing for the imminent threat presented by a current cooling period, says British environmental scientist Peter Taylor. A policy directed towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent by 2050 will have a huge, negative impact on our environment, biodiversity and community. With no policy aimed at tackling global cooling, we can expect a decline in food production and major famines. Taylor concludes that the IPCC assessments on global warming are wrong and that the consensus is a false construct from the summary material aimed at policymakers. He says that future projections of global warming are flawed for many reasons, including that they don't consider the impact of long- and short-term natural cycles of the Sun and Earth. In his section on the science, Taylor explains the pattern of natural causes, the satellite data that contradict global warming theory, evidence for changing cloud cover and the role of oscillating ocean cycles. He discusses Arctic and Antarctic climate variations, variabilities in solar radiation, and cosmic rays as a possible missing ink in our scientific understanding. Regarding the politics of global warming, Taylor shows how the consensus developed and overruled dissent among other scientists and how media and environmental groups have colluded in generating a "dangerously naive message that now drives government action worldwide". He proposes a remedy based on creating human support systems that are resilient to whatever climate change the future may bring. A measured, thought-provoking study. 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