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Taken by Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy, and Politics of Global Warming Paperback – Jan. 1 1755

by Christopher Essex (Author), Ross McKitrick (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
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  1. Print length
    356 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Key Porter Books
  4. Publication date
    Jan. 1 1755
  5. Dimensions
    15.24 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1552639460
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1552639467
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Key Porter Books; Revised edition (Jan. 1 1755)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 356 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1552639460
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1552639467
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 431 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 14 ratings

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Ron
5.0 out of 5 stars A great read...
Reviewed in Canada on October 10, 2023
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This is an older book on the climate debate but still well worth reading. I especially liked the section on explaining the fallacy of computing 'average' global temperatures and the like, something I have not seen explained in other similar books.
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Kee Dewdney
5.0 out of 5 stars Should bad science inform public policy?
Reviewed in Canada on May 6, 2014
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How is it possible for President Obama to claim that there is now “consensus” behind global warming (excuse me, “climate change") and that the science behind climate change is “settled”, when there are some 19,000 scientists who disagree with the idea? several hundred of these are in fields of expertise directly that bear directly on climate research. The science is not only far from settled, as explained in this important work, it is rather weak, based almost entirely on computer climate models that are incapable of rendering accurate predictions about future “global” temperatures, when they a) do not agree with each other and b) must have their underlying numerical parameters adjusted until they give the “right” answer, namely an annual increase of temperature.

Essex and McKitrick offer an interesting explanation of how this situation has resulted from a self-perpetuating process that involves a rather small number of scientists at the centre of things, the print and broadcast media, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), politicians and funding agencies. In a colourful meteorological analogy, they call it the “convection of certainty”, that results in a cloud of obfuscation, bad science, name-calling and an agenda of marginalization directed at any scientist who fails to follow the IPCC dictum.

When it comes to public contact with science and the formation of science policy, there is no better preparation for the brave new world of the new millennium than Taken by Storm!

Kee Dewdney
(mathematician & computer scientist)
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Joel M. Kauffman
5.0 out of 5 stars Honest Revelations on the Difficulty of Climate Forecasting
Reviewed in Canada on January 12, 2004
Many professors of Climate Science realize that carbon dioxide generated by human activity has caused little or no global warming. Essex and McKitrick, even as outsiders to the field, provide the most entertaining exposé of climate modeling nonsense I have seen. The flaws in climate modeling, the absence of
water vapor as the most important greenhouse gas in most enviro manifestoes, the fraud behind the "hockey stick" graph of temperature over the last 1,000 years that claims that the 20th century has been the warmest of the millenium, and the lack of coverage of the remaining ground temperature measurement
stations are all revealed, and backed with citations to peer-reviewed journals. Even the dynamics of human group polarization are explained at length as the reason why this subject receives almost no serious scientific discussion.
The hockey stick temperature vs. time graph was defended by its perpetrator (Mann). A new peer-reviewed article defends the work in the book and amplfies it: Stephen McIntyre and Ross
McKitrick.Corrections to the Mann et al (1998) Proxy Data Base and Northern Hemisphere Average Temperature Series. Energy and Environment 14(6) 751-772. This is one of the few journals on climate that will consider articles with the facts: there is no correlation, as the books shows, with CO2 levels and lower atmosphere temperatures. [...]
The views in the book are supported by other authors in the books Hot Talk, Cold Science; Fragile Science; Global Warming and Other Eco-Myths; and The Skeptical Environmentalist.
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Crosslands
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Effort
Reviewed in Canada on June 18, 2004
Mr. Essex and Mr. McKitrick have written a very impressive critique of the faulty science and pseudoscience behind the global warming theory. Particularly impressive is their explanation of the faulty modeling of the climate by the U.N. working committees. The book demonstrates how the collection of average temperatures is no way to model the climate whose relationships are nonlinear and are in constant disequilibrium. The authors demonstrate the uselessness of the U.N. climate models better than anyone else I have read. The authors to their great credit also expose many of the propaganda devices of the establishment and environmentalist proponents of controlling global warming. Way too many of the media, government and establishment information outlets are controlled by people who uncritically support the global warming hypothesis.
Mr. Essex and Mr. Mckitrick might criticized a bit for their presentation. The authors discuss quite difficult concepts that might well be out of range for the average reader. Even a person like myself who has taken a number of college mathematics courses had to read slowly and carefully several of their chapters. I think the authors should have used gray boxes to carefully explain the more difficult concepts, as is done in some science textbooks. For less experienced readers the book by Michaels and Balling (The Satanic Gases) might be a clearer exposition.
But the work is still stupendous.
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Mark
5.0 out of 5 stars objective, respectful, and humorous
Reviewed in Canada on November 20, 2004
In my attemps to grasp the core issues around the science and politics of global warming I have stumbled upon a very enlightening book. The book covers a variety topics from the current connection between facts, science, politics, and policy, to the the concept of uncertainty in existing climate technology. It is not overly ambitious in the scientific concepts it presents to readers who are at least aware of the current global warming discussion, and it remains respectful to the field of climate science. Overall, a fun read and a reminder to the world of science that life is unpredictable, non-linear, and has infinite outcomes.
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P. D. Besly
4.0 out of 5 stars Its a convincer of how little is known about the earth's climate
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 20, 2023
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Some of the chapters do go deep, but the overall impression is very, very clear - that we don't just have some holes in what we know about climate (uncertainty). The truth is that there are whole swathes of the subject which we don't even know exist (nescience).
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Crosslands
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Effort
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2004
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Mr. Essex and Mr. McKitrick have written a very impressive critique of the faulty science and pseudoscience behind the global warming theory. Particularly impressive is their explanation of the faulty modeling of the climate by the U.N. working committees. The book demonstrates how the collection of average temperatures is no way to model the climate whose relationships are nonlinear and are in constant disequilibrium. The authors demonstrate the uselessness of the U.N. climate models better than anyone else I have read. The authors to their great credit also expose many of the propaganda devices of the establishment and environmentalist proponents of controlling global warming. Way too many of the media, government and establishment information outlets are controlled by people who uncritically support the global warming hypothesis.
Mr. Essex and Mr. Mckitrick might criticized a bit for their presentation. The authors discuss quite difficult concepts that might well be out of range for the average reader. Even a person like myself who has taken a number of college mathematics courses had to read slowly and carefully several of their chapters. I think the authors should have used gray boxes to carefully explain the more difficult concepts, as is done in some science textbooks. For less experienced readers the book by Michaels and Balling (The Satanic Gases) might be a clearer exposition.
But the work is still stupendous.
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David Petch
4.0 out of 5 stars evisceration to the sound of light music
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 12, 2009
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This book is aimed at a wide audience and, perhaps conscious that many of them will has a limited grasp of mathematical and statistical concepts , and indeed might flee at the first sign of an equation, it endeavours to lead the reader gently towards the arguments by the use of a jocular and familiar manner. Generally speaking the tactic works. The breezy language does not detract from serious arguments about serious scientific issues.
There are a number of palpable hits on the alarmist school of climate change. The concept of "average global temperature " has been examined and shown to be wanting in other sceptical publications but it is done with some panache and humour here.
The misuse of models for purposes which they cannot fulfil ,prediction, is examined as is the failure of those ,who ought to know better, in not pointing out this misapplication. The fluidity and adjustability of models , which can be their strength in our efforts to understand complex process, is their fatal weakness when proponents try to use them as road maps. This book gets that point across well.

It would be a good read for any politician on the air journey to Copenhagen in December. (I doubt many will be sailing under canvas.) However they would have to keep it under a plain brown cover to avoid discovery by their entourage. Green jobs, particularly green bureaucratic jobs, must be protected!
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