PDF Climate Change Reconsidered II Fossil Fuels eBook Roger Bezdek Craig D Idso David R Legates S Fred Singer

Product details File Size 9595 KB Print Length 1912 pages Publisher The Heartland Institute (March 8, 2019) Publication Date March 8, 2019 Sold by  Digital Services LLC Language English ASIN B07PKFP73N

Climate Change Reconsidered II Fossil Fuels eBook Roger Bezdek Craig D Idso David R Legates S Fred Singer Reviews

• As an example of their hot air and pseudoscience, consider the claim on Location 1622 of the edition "Key elements of the Scientific Method include experimentation, the testing of competing hypotheses, objective and careful peer review, discerning correlation from causation, and controlling for natural variability. In each of these areas, the IPCC and many scientists whose work is prominent in climate science have been shown to fall short (Essex and McKitrick, 2007; Darwall, 2013; Lewin, 2017; Armstrong and Green, 2018).
  
  I decided to check the last reference. It's not peer-reviewed, not published in a respected science journal. It's a Powerpoint presentation a business professor gave at a conference for anthropomorphic climate change deniers! Did it demonstrate the claim quoted? No, it merely repeated the assertion for *one* paper(!) estimating polar bear population. They say the title is bad, that they weren't given the date for a polar bear population estimate, and that we should read this one polar bear paper for ourselves judging by their Scientific Method checklist. (Moreover, their checklist itself is problematic -- the importance of a problem (itself often unclear) and the complexity of experimentation methods do not disqualify something from being properly scientific.)
  
  This isn't science. It's politicking. So this one example turned out to be a self-published political diatribe, not peer-reviewed science. This book appears a repetition of their other book 'Why Scientists Disagree about Climate Change', also verbose undemonstrated accusations filled with self-referential "citations".
  
  So this book is a number of political rabbit holes, and they are hoping the reader will be impressed by appearances, i.e. their scientific-sounding assertions and numerous citations.
• An important work that needs to be read by policymakers at all levels of government.