The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the obsession with ‘climate change’ turning out to be the most costly scientific blunder in history. By Christopher Booker.

This original book considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe from runaway global warming, and how today this has persuaded politicians to land us with what promises to be the biggest bill in history. Christopher Booker interweaves the science of global warming with that of its growing political consequences, showing how just when the politicians are threatening to change our Western way of life beyond recognition, the scientific evidence behind the global warming theory is being challenged like never before. The book exposes the myth that the global warming theory is supported by a ‘consensus of the world’s top climate scientists’. It shows how the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is run by a small group of ‘global warming’ zealots, who have repeatedly rigged evidence to support their theory. But the politicians, pushed by the media, have so fallen for its propaganda that, short of dramatic change, our Western world now faces an unprecedented disaster. The real disaster to be brought about by global warming, it now seems highly possible, is not the technicolor apocalypse promised by Gore and his many allies melting ice sheets, rising sea levels, hurricanes, droughts, mass-extinctions. The scare had then been magnified by the media and campaigning groups, to the point where eventually politicians and governments gave way, launching a legislative response out of all proportion to the reality of the threat. This remained one of the best-kept secrets of the wind industry, because what it meant was that the wind turbines were not saving anything like the amount of CO2 they liked to claim.

Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth
By Christopher Booker and Richard North: Modern society has regularly, in recent years, been gripped by a series of headline making “scares” – from mad cow disease to SARS — which have become one of the most conspicuous and damaging features of our modern world. This book is the first to tell the inside story of each of the major scares of the past two decades, showing how they have followed a remarkably consistent pattern. It analyzes the crucial role played in each case by scientists how have misread or manipulated the evidence; by media and lobbyists who eagerly promote the scare without regard to the facts; and finally by the politicians and officials who come up with an absurdly disproportionate response, leaving us all to pay the price, which may run into billions of dollars. Scared to Death culminates in a chillingly detailed account of the story behind what the authors believe has become the greatest scare of them all: the belief that the world faces disaster through manmade global warming. In a final chapter, the authors take on its proponents such as Al Gore in a devastating critique of the consensus on global warming and its consequences.

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