Rating  - Well written, easy to understand, and credible. A MUST READ
This is a book that should be read by all American adults. In fact, it should be read in High School science classes, as we've gone very wrong -- and only recently -- about how our society views science.
It's sad a fact of history that religion and politics often trump scientific fact. This caused the Dark Ages in Western Europe. It caused China of the Marco Polo era to regress into a backward nation. In a scant century or two, Islamic nations fell from a huge lead in science and medicine, to backwards, warring, tribes and clans. And it's possible they may never recover.
Up until 1995, an agency of Congress -- the well-respected Office of Technology Assessment -- existed to deliver competent, objective, non-partisan science advice, hopefully BEFORE Members of Congress would vote on legislation or take public positions on important scientific issues. That's how it used to work. Several nations around the world copied this, but we abolished it without warning, allegedly for "cost savings."
The sad truth is that both parties, each for its own reasons, now prefer to not be constrained by real science. We're turning away from science as a society, and history has not been kind to nations that chose that path.
It was technology and informed policy that made historians call the 20th Century "The American Century." Are we turning away from what made us great? Let's just say that the cults and political factions forming around science based issues like Global Warming and Creationism (remember the Scopes Monkey trial of the 1930s?) are not encouraging.
Is this trend too late to stop? I honestly don't know, but both "Global Warming" and "Creationism" are now widely accepted by the American public, and I'd argue this falling into ignorance does not bode well for our sons and daughters.
Right now, the critical issue for America is energy policy. For the long term, we need alternate energy sources. For the medium term, we need to find more oil and develop better sources of supply. For the short term, we need real science and to let the market run its course.
Because of Mr. Gore's widely accepted misinformation -- he invented the Internet, you know -- we are making bad decisions and bungling our future. This book is a good way for Americans to return to real science about Global Warming. Whatever your party or views, I think it is a must-read.
Rating - climate confusion
Very well written, easy to understand, but very informative. This should be a required text to combat the propaganda in our public schools.
Rating - Excellent Primer on Climate, Weather, and Warming
Dr. Spencer lays out his objectives for the book in the introduction which primarily is to provide climate information to climate lay people (which is most everyone on the planet).
I found this book to be very informative regarding the atmosphere, basic weather (energy, wind, currents, temperature, etc.), theories of global warming, government policy creation, and overall just how much is unknown about warming, weather, and climate change.
He also provides information on his experience working for the government and his experience with environmentalists (including Al Gore) and alarmists.
As a bonus Dr. Spencer has a chapter on basic economics (related to policy creation) that should be required reading for all.
I would recommend this book.
Rating - Elemental deconstruction of AGW, point-by-point
Dr. Spencer's book isn't the first word or the last on this topic, but he definitely gets props here for clobbering the fraudulent modeling science behind the global warming alarmism that often substitutes for science. Highly-recommended - I plan to make the book available for my kids as part of their overall science library.
Rating  - Is Global Warming discussion bad for your health?
The global warming fight is bad for your health because it shifts the policy focus to global warming, to so called "greenhouse gases" and away from toxic pollution, such as SO2, NO and particulate matter. No one is claiming these are not bad for your health and were particularly bad in Southern California and London before they enacted sensible regulations to curb it.
Lets shift to using fuel cells in cars and for electric power not to reduce greenhouse gases but to reduce or eliminate toxic pollution. Lets not throw out the baby with the bathwater, i.e. the battle against toxic pollution because of the likely spurious concern with "greenhouse gases".
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