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| Acknowledgments and Dedication | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Author's Note | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Global Warming Alarmism Debunked | |
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| A Tsunami for Global Warming Alarmism | |
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| Three Climatist Prophets of Doom | |
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| Eight "Disasters" of Global Warming | |
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| Media Cheerleaders | |
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| The Consensus Appears Unanimous | |
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| The Global Delusion | |
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| The Thin Science for Man-Made Global Warming | |
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| Energy Balance and Weather | |
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| Early Research on Carbon Dioxide | |
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| The Simple Greenhouse Effect | |
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| Increasing CO<sub>2</sub> and Temperature | |
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| A Closer Look at Temperatures | |
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| Global Warming Dogma | |
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| Rise of the Climate Models | |
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| The Vostok Ice Cotes | |
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| Thin Science for Man-made Global Warming | |
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| Carbon Dioxide: Not Guilty | |
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| Carbon Dioxide—A Trace Gas | |
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| The Carbon Cycle | |
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| Carbon Dioxide Is Great for Plants | |
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| The Core Issue: The Greenhouse Effect | |
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| Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Impacts | |
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| It's All About the Feedback | |
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| Garbage In, Garbage Out | |
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| Climate Change Is Continuous | |
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| Our Climate Is Dominated by Cycles | |
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| Long Term: The Milankovitch Cycles | |
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| Measurement of Past Temperatures | |
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| The Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age | |
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| Medium Term: The 1500-Year Cycle | |
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| Short Term Cycles: El Ni�o, PDO, and AMO | |
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| Natural Cycles Explain Global Warming | |
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| The Sun Is Our Climate Driver | |
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| Evidence Points to the Sun | |
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| The Link between Cosmic Rays and the Sun | |
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| New Evidence: Solar Activity Affects Clouds | |
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| Nature Is Not Cooperating | |
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| Headed for Global Cooling? | |
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| Global Warming Disasters Debunked | |
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| Icecap Melting Causes Sea Level Rise | |
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| An Increase in Reported Natural Disasters | |
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| Devastation from Hurricanes and Storms | |
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| Famine from Droughts and Floods | |
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| Increase in Temperature | |
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| Related Deaths | |
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| The Polar Bear and Species Extinction | |
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| Melting Glaciers and Water Shortages | |
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| Coral and Acidification of the Oceans | |
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| Gulf Stream Shut Down and New Ice Age | |
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| Climatism and "Snake Oil" Remedies | |
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| The IPCC and the Road to World Delusion | |
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| United Nations and Environmental Activism | |
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| Ozone Hole and Montreal Protocol | |
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| Theatrics in the Summer of 1988 | |
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| The IPCC Gathers a Host of Support | |
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| Score Decided before the Game Was Played | |
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| 1992 Earth Summit and the FCCC | |
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| Increasing "Certainty" of IPCC Reports | |
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| Re-writing History with the Mann Curve | |
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| Consensus Science from the IPCC | |
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| The Kyoto Treaty: Lesson in Futility | |
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| Alarming IPCC Temperature Forecasts | |
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| Climatism: The Ideology behind Global Warming Alarmism | |
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| Malthus and the Roots of Climatism | |
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| The New Malthusians Adopt Climatism | |
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| The Improving State of the World | |
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| The Environment and Kuznets Curves | |
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| The Beliefs, Objectives and Tactics of Climatism | |
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| Eight False Beliefs of Climatism | |
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| The Objectives of Climatism | |
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| The Tactics of Climatism | |
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| The Science Is Not Settled | |
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| The Attack on Deniers | |
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| Revelle, Gore, and Suppression Science | |
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| Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty | |
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| The Climatist Inquisition | |
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| The Purchasing of Climate Science | |
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| Three Notable Dissenters | |
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| The Culpable News Media | |
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| Growing Number of Climate Realists | |
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| The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change | |
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| Climategate at East Anglia | |
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| Snake Oil Remedies to "Save the Planet" | |
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| The Plan: Reduce CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions 50% to 85% | |
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| The Stabilization Wedges | |
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| Emissions After Kyoto Protocol | |
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| Kyoto II Conference in Copenhagen | |
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| Attack on Freedom and Our Way of Life | |
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| Rationing and The Climate Police | |
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| Renewable Energy "Solutions" | |
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| Energy: The Lifeblood of Prosperity | |
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| The Hydrocarbon Revolution | |
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| World Energy Usage | |
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| Energy Use Grows Despite Attacks | |
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| World Energy Reserves | |
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| Solar Basics About Electrical Power | |
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| Renewable Energy: Reality Far Short of Promises | |
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| Solar Energy: Perpetual 1% Solution | |
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| Realities of Solar Power Economics | |
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| Home Solar Systems | |
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| Desertec | |
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| Wind Power: The Choice of Climatism | |
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| Wind Power: Built on Subsidies and Mandates | |
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| Carbon Capture and Storage: A Fool's Errand | |
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| Biofuels: Government-Financed Explosion | |
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| Don't Burn Food | |
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| Fuel Economy Mandates and Electric Cars | |
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| Chains for the Developing Nations | |
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| China and India: The Dilemma of Climatism | |
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| Developing Nations in Dire Need of Energy | |
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| Past Chain: Tragedy of the DDT Ban | |
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| Renewable Fantasy for Developing Nations | |
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| Stranglehold oh Global Capital | |
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| Bribes for Developing Nations | |
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| Spectre of Climate Protectionism | |
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| Climatism in Action: Debacles around the World | |
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| "Enlightened" City of Austin, Texas | |
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| Renewable Debacle in Spain | |
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| Renewables Fall Short in Philippines | |
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| The Sorrow of Denmark | |
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| California: A Blizzard of Climate Regulations | |
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| The U.K.: Many Sacrifices for Illusory Benefits | |
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| The European Emissions Trading Circus | |
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| Energy Nonsense for the Good Old U.S.A. | |
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| Independence from Foreign Oil | |
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| Growth and Green Jobs | |
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| Minimal Cost | |
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| 20% Renewables Possible by 2020 | |
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| Foolishness of U.S. Energy Policy | |
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| Road to Blackout Paradise? | |
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| Climatist Demands of the U.S. | |
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| Common Sense and the Future | |
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| We Can No Longer Control the Seas | |
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| What's All the Concern About? | |
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| Good News from Realistic Climate Science | |
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| The Bad News is Climatism Itself | |
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| Common Sense for the 21st Century | |
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| Trends for the Future | |
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| Some Things You Can Do | |
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| A Final Note: The P-38 "Glacier Girl" | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |