Atmospheric Justice: A Political Theory of Climate Change [Hardcover]

I just looked up the other reviewer of this book, the so-called "Dr." P.R. Lewis. Past reviews from this reviewer contain an unusual number of one-star reviews, almost all tied to subject matter he does not like. Basically, any book that involves environmental protection or concern gets 1-Star.

Perhaps he really is reading these books, though it is hard to imagine why he would. Whether or not this is the case, he appears to have hit upon a strategy to kill books. The author of Atmospheric Justice should fight back and get a legitimate review on here. Hopefully, my 5-stars will add some balance until then.

The onward march of the zombie global warmers continues with this book. It is really a diatribe against the well-known resistance of the USA in opposing carbon taxes already adopted by the EU to meet their Kyoto commitments. The author swallows the IPCC doctrines, last espoused in 2007, which predict the imminent demise of life on the planet as a direct result of anthropocentric global warming, or AGW. The hypothesis is based on computer models which are deeply flawed because they fail to account for the many natural cycles in the weather known to climatologists. The IPCC confidently predict rises in sea level, higher temperatures, loss of species, stronger hurricanes, floods everywhere and general chaos and mayhem. However, Armageddon is delayed because such disasters have not been observed in the last decade, and indeed, the worst disasters have been tsunamis and earthquakes, phenomena totally unconnected with the levels of CO2 in the air (the guilty gas of the IPCC). It is we who are creating the problem, mainly through electricity generated by coal fired power stations, apparently. The earth is currently in a cooling phase, as winters in Europe have shown quite clearly. Alarmist authors like Vanderheiden thus have a serious problem in trying to pin the blame on the US government of Bush. He ought to direct his attention elsewhere, such as China and India, two countries who are dragging themselves out of poverty by their own efforts, but especially by the use of coal-generated electricity. But the theme of his book is justice, presumably at an international level. But all the attempts at signing a binding agreement on emissions have come to nothing, and there is no likelihood of any treaty any time in the future. To bring ethics into the argument is ironic, considering the unethical behaviour of the alarmists in libelling scientists who dissent from the alleged consensus of AGW. We also now know from the Climategate emails of the unethical behaviour of some of the scientists behind the scaremongering, messrs Mann and Hanson to name but two. This book should be avoided by anyone who wants a fair and balanced account of the problems facing the world, including illegal wars like Iraq, terrorism, drug trafficking, corrupt bankers and financiers, and noble cause corruption (of which this book is a good example).