Zimmer reviews Global Warming books

Carl Zimmer has reviewed two books on Global Warming: Tim Flannery's The Weather Makers (I dissected some criticism of Flannery's book here) and Elizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes From a Catastrophe.

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Andrew Bolt has responded to Tim Flannery's correction of
I have an article in The Conversation on the misrepresentation of the science on sea level in news stories in The Australian:
Tim Blair links to some interesting articles in this week's Bulletin.
Tim Flannery has a new book The Weather Makers on climate change. You can read an extract here.

Dr. Lambert-

Any update on reviving the old Deltoid AGW threads, "Disinfo...cycle" for example? I've noticed you've made brief posts on at least one other climate blog, but there you've posted little/no statistics, and no thermodynamics content.

Reminder: nearly a month ago, you mentioned of an assistant that would be returning to work on this -- a scienceblogs employee, I presumed?

And then we have this garbage:

"Aussies' Suzuki heavier on rhetoric than on science

Tim Ball, For The Calgary Herald
Published: Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Unknown to most Canadians until this week, Australians have their very own David Suzuki, a self-promoting zoologist who has garnered a large and loyal following for his sensationalist views on climate change.

Like Suzuki, Aussie zoologist Tim Flannery has no professional credentials in the field and so blunders regularly while pushing governments to save the world from global warming."

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http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=d622e9fa-cdc8-4163-8292-…

I can't believe this crap still exists, this libel or slander. Tim Flannery is most definitely qualified to speak on this matter. I heard him speak yesterday and he was definitely much more "on the ball" than Tim Ball is, despite his last name.

These contrarians are no "Friends of Science" as they proclaim they are, but toxic to science as they are badmouthing and denegrating all true climate scientists and their reputations.

Also, with the April 6 letter to the Canadian Prime Minister by some of these contrarians, there has been a more rational response yesterday:

http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2006/04/19/climate-change06041…

What appalls me is that certain politicians and "think-tankers" will listen to economists, mathematicians, and former mining executives (McKitrick, Essex, and McIntyre) on the topic of climate change over those who are actually climatologists (Mann, Bradley, Hughes, etc.). That's like trusting a plumber to perform open-heart surgery on a patient. Completely irrational.

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