An appeal to reason : a cool look at global warming

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Label

An appeal to reason : a cool look at global warming

Title remainder

a cool look at global warming

Statement of responsibility

Nigel Lawson

Creator

• Lawson, Nigel

Subject

• Environment and Ecology
• Environmentalist thought & ideology
• Climate change
• Global warming -- Economic aspects
• Global warming -- Political aspects
• Global warming

Language

eng

Summary

In this counter-attack on Al Gore and others who campaign on global warming, Nigel Lawson argues that science is only part of the story. He believes that for governments to make informed decisions about the path ahead they must listen to economists as well as scientists and ask what the most cost-effective method of tackling the issue is.

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

363.73874

Index

index present

LC call number

QC981.8.G56

Literary form

non fiction

Summary expansion

In recent years, sensational warnings about climate change have dominated the headlines. In this hard-hitting response to the scaremongering of climate alarmists, Nigel Lawson, former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State for Energy, argues that it it is time for us to take a cool look at global warming. Lawson carefully and succinctly examines all aspects of the global warming issue - the science, the economics, the politics and the ethics - concluding that conventional wisdom on the subject is deeply flawed. He asserts that, even if the majority view of the science is correct, the proposed solution to the problem would be more damaging than the threat it has been designed to avert - and, in any case is, for very good reasons, not politically attainable. Insightful, brilliantly reasoned and thoroughly researched, this is a much-needed corrective to the barrage of hype and spin surrounding a subject that affects every one of us