S. Fred Singer - Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warmings Unfinished Debate

In Hot Talk, Cold Science, Fred Singer looks at the issue of climate change the way a physicist should. He asks probing questions and offers reasoned possibilities. He notes the obvious weaknesses that others too often ignore and freely acknowledges his own limitations. The biggest weakness is the obvious refusal of those promoting alarm to allow the questioning that is the heart of science. Nothing better illustrates the fact that we are dealing with a political cum religious cult rather than science where the quest for power overwhelms scientific inquiry. Alas, even scientists are often attracted by power and public recognition. Fortunately, some like Dr. Singer still prefer the joys and value of scientific inquiry.

Richard S. Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor Emeritus of Meteorology; Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; M.I.T.

As contentious as the climate issue was and is, I was always impressed by Fred Singers gentle demeanor within that storm. I suppose he remained calm because he sought to ground his views in the actual evidence of climate observations. In his day, reproducible evidence was the foundation on which one was taught to test ones claims and he simply went about the business of checking out the latest theorized conjectures about the climate. Here in Hot Talk, Cold Science, he updates some of his findings regarding those conjectures, as well as giving a little tour of the political landscape that melded itself to the climate-alarm agenda. His conclusions should give us all a modest sense of gentle calmnessthat same calmness he carried to the end of his days.

John R. Christy, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science; Interim Dean, College of Science; Director, Earth System Science Center, Johnson Research Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville; Alabama State Climatologist

When debating environmental policy, we frequently hear from scientists, climate activists, and public officials who claim the science is settled with regard to global warming. This book is a great reminder that the data are mixed at best. We should follow the science. Hot Talk, Cold Science provides the reader with important facts and evidence consistently and conveniently overlooked by climate alarmists, making clear the case on global warming is far from closed.

Ted Cruz, U.S. Senator; Chairman, Senate Subcommittee on Science and Space; Chairman, Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights

Hot Talk, Cold Science is an excellent book on the politics and science of climate change. I particularly enjoyed the first part, Hot Talk, that shows the duplicity of the climate alarmist community in exaggerating claims of imminent disaster (that has been 10 years away for decades) as well as suppressing contrary opinions from highly respected scientists (cancel culture). I did not realize the true extent of these propaganda efforts until I read this book, which documents very well many of these shenanigans. The general public should know how far the alarmist climate scientists (including Al Gore) strayed from good science in trying to bamboozle them. I have also found the second part Cold Science enlightening, particularly the sections discussing how poorly the IPCC climate models have predicted climate measurements. An analogous situation is the recent case of almost total failure of the epidemiological models to predict the COVID-19 pandemics progression and resulting deaths. In the case of the epidemiological models the general public can see almost in real time how poorly predictive they are. In both cases, one is trying to solve a non-linear, chaotic system to predict its future. It is well known in mathematics and physics that one does very poorly in predicting the detailed future time dependence of such a system. Yet the climate modelers persist in their folly, basing their models on a linear cause and effect of increasing anthropogenic CO2 driving the Earths climate.

Elliott D. Bloom, Professor Emeritus, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC); Fellow, American Physical Society; Member of the SLAC team with Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall and Richard E. Taylor who received the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics

The third and substantially expanded edition of the book, Hot Talk, Cold Science by Fred Singer (with David Legates and Anthony Lupo), is one of the most important contributions undermining the economically and politically problematic and highly controversial scientific doctrine of man-made global warming. No one has done so much as Professor Singer in this respect. We all are his followers as he has shown how science has been compromised and misused for decades to justify politically and ideologically motivated, disastrous economic policies. The contradiction between Hot Talk and Cold Science is even more pronounced now than when this marvelous book was first published.

Vclav Klaus, former President, Czech Republic; 1st Prime Minister, Czech Republic

Science thrives on civil and dispassionate debate. It demands the use of our reason; in fact, it is useless without it. Drs. Singer, Legates, and Lupo bring science and reason to a debate that has increasingly been driven by panic and politics. Twenty years have passed since the Second Edition of Hot Talk, Cold Science, and while its science has withstood the test of time, the rhetoric surrounding climate change has only grown more alarmist. Now more than ever, the public deserves Hot Talk, Cold Sciences thorough scientific and economic analysis of the realities of our environment.

Thomas M. McClintock, U.S. Congressman; Member, House Natural Resources Committee and House Judiciary Committee

Singer, Legates, and Lupos book Hot Talk, Cold Science is excellent. I remain very concerned that the bulk of the environmental movement continues to ignore so many solvable issues while engendering global hyper-anxiety, particularly in the young generation, over a climate crisis that does not exist. This book presents an understandable and balanced review of the science that will leave readers with two conclusions; that our use of fossil fuels is remarkably benign to the environment and essential to the struggling global underclass, and that we have been greatly misled by those entrusted for sound environmental policy.

Ian D. Clark, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Ottawa, Canada

Hot Talk, Cold Science by the late Dr. Fred Singer, with Drs. David Legates and Anthony Lupo, is an enormously important contribution to the unfinished debate on global warming and written by three highly authoritative and trustworthy climate scientists. I very enthusiastically recommend the book to everyone who wishes to learn why this debate is anything but settled.

Larry S. Bell, Endowed Professor, Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture, University of Houston; author, Climate and Corruption: Politics and Power Behind the Global Warming Hoax and Scared Witless: Prophets and Profits of Climate Doom

The unsurprising political opposition to climate policysubstantial increases in energy costs combined with trivial future climate impactshas led its proponents to make crisis assertions as loud as they are unsupported by the evidence. That is why we will never observe in the crisis literature a discussion of What We Know We Dont Know. But the book