Climate Change: The Facts 2017

✍ Scribed by Jennifer Marohasy (editor)

• Publisher: Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 405
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Climate Change: The Facts 2017 contains 22 essays by internationally-renowned experts and commentators, including Dr Bjorn Lomborg, Dr Matt Ridley, Professor Peter Ridd, Dr Willie Soon, Dr Ian Plimer, Dr Roy Spencer, and literary giant Clive James. The volume is edited by Dr Jennifer Marohasy, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. Fourteen of the contributors currently hold or have held positions at a university or a scientific research organisation.

Dr Jennifer Marohasy said, “Climate Change: The Facts 2017 presents the case for climate change policies to be based on scientific evidence and it reveals how many of the potential policy responses to climate change are often wildly disproportionate compared to their potential cost.”

“However, our understanding of how the climate operates is incomplete and it is critically important to challenge the view that the planet is facing a global warming catastrophe.”

“Climate Change: The Facts 2017 addresses a range of issues including the science of climate change, the homogenisation and manipulation of temperature data, the economic and social impact of climate change policy proposals, and the way climate change is presented by the media and portrayed in popular culture,” said Dr Marohasy.

✦ Table of Contents

Climate Change: The Facts 2017
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Contributors
Introduction
1 The Extraordinary Resilience of Great Barrier Reef Corals, and Problems with Policy Science
2 Ocean Acidification: Not Yet a Catastrophe for the Great Barrier Reef
3 Understanding Climate Change in Terms of Natural Variability
4 The Role of the Moon in Weather Forecasting
5 Creating a False Warming Signal in the US Temperature Record
6 It was Hot in the USA – in the 1930s
7 Taking Melbourne’s Temperature
8 Mysterious Revisions to Australia’s Long Hot History
9 The Homogenisation of Rutherglen
10 Moving in Unison: Maximum Temperatures from Victoria, Australia
11 A Brief Review of the Sun–Climate Connection, with a New Insight Concerning Water Vapour
12 The Advantages of Satellite-Based Regional and Global Temperature Monitoring
13 Carbon Dioxide and Plant Growth
14 The Poor Are Carrying the Cost of Today’s Climate Policy
15 The Impact and Cost of the 2015 Paris Climate Summit, with a Focus on US Policies
16 Re-examining Papal Energy and Climate Ethics
17 Free Speech and Climate Change
18 The Lukewarm Paradigm and Funding of Science
19 Global Warming The Contribution of Carbon Dioxide to
20 Carbon Dioxide and the Evolution of the Earth’s Atmosphere
21 The Geological Context of Natural Climate Change
22 Mass Death Dies Hard
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