The Inquisition of Climate Science /

Modern science is under the greatest and most successful attack in recent history. An industry of denial, abetted by news media and "info-tainment" broadcasters more interested in selling controversy than presenting facts, has duped half the American public into rejecting the facts of clim...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Powell, James (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2011]
Temas:
Climatic changes > Effect of human beings on.
Climatic changes.
Climatology.
Global warming.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Not Skeptics, Deniers
  • 1. Science and Potemkin Science
  • 2. Adventures in Denierland
  • 3. The Evidence for Consensus
  • 4. Discovery of Global Warming
  • 5. The Greenhouse Effect: From Curiosity to Threat
  • 6. Global Warming: All You Really Need to Know in One Chart
  • 7. Tobacco Tactics: The Scientist-Deniers
  • 8. Fear of State: The Nonscientists
  • 9. Toxic Tanks
  • 10. An Industry to Trust
  • 11. Balance as Bias: How the Media Missed "The Story of the Century"
  • 12. Science Under Attack
  • 13. Greatest Hoax in History?
  • 14. Climategate: Much Ado About Nothing
  • 15. Anatomy of Denial
  • 16. Escalating Tactics
  • 17. Earning Trust
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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