Steve Goreham - The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism: Mankind and Climate Change Mania

Praise for
The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism

This is the first book written to make you laugh at the absurdity of man-made global warmingthat is, until it makes you cry. If 250 pages of facts are too much, you can simply read the amusing cartoons and quotes on every page to fully understand how the world has been misled.

Jay Lehr, PhD, Science Director, The Heartland Institute

Its all here. Replete with great graphics and much humor, Steve Goreham reveals the mountain of failed eco-predictions, rank green hypocrisies and outright fraud that currently masquerades in the guise of modern environmentalism and climate science The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism is an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand expose of all the key facts behind the dirty green politics of the greatest pseudo-science racket of our age.

Peter Glover, author, journalist, and International Associate Editor, Energy Tribune

I am extremely impressed with this work, easily the best of its kind I have ever read an authoritative, well-referenced, but easy-to-understand summary of the climate scare and its dire implications for society and the environment.

Tom Harris, Executive Director, International Climate Science Coalition

Interesting, accurate, compellingly readable, and directly relevant to one of todays most important political debates. What more needs to be said beyond, Buy this fascinating book!

Robert Carter, Australian Marine Geologist and Environmental Scientist

Steves new book is exactly what I hoped would be published. It makes climate science understandable to everyone. Finally, some common sense, presented in a way to inform, not to deceive.

Burt Rutan, Aerospace Engineer, Innovator, Entrepreneur

Goreham, the antidote for Gore!

Doug Giles, Syndicated Radio Host

Steve Gorehams insightful and readable analysis of the ideology of Climatism and its socialistic goals is an important addition to public understanding of both the facts and the critical importance of making the right decisions for America.

Harrison H. Schmitt, PhD, Geologist, former Senator and Apollo 17 Astronaut

Gorehams book is an excellent, readable, comprehensive, and indispensable education for everyone. It should be required reading in all schools, universities, statehouses and Congress.

Edwin Berry, PhD, Physicist and Meteorologist

Steve Goreham has provided the science, the motivations, and the examples of deceit that surround the man-made warming hypothesis. He leaves no excuse for the public and the policy makers to prolong the misguided effort to spend trillions of dollars trying to reduce the insignificant effect of CO2 on global climate change.

Leighton Steward, Geologist, Author, and Environmentalist

The

Mad, Mad, Mad World

of Climatism

Mankind and Climate Change Mania

2012 by Steve Goreham

All Rights Reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or any otherexcept for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

eISBN: 978-0-9824996-1-0

www.climatism.net

New Lenox Books, Inc.

New Lenox, IL USA 60451

Credits:

Polar bears in convertible image by Canaan Shaffner

Burning wind turbine image by Polizei Stade

Cover Design: Peri Poloni-Gabriel, Knockout Design, www.knockoutbooks.com

Image of Harrison Schmitt on the moon from NASA

Cartoons by Bob Lynch

CONTENTS

T he dogmatic beliefs at the core of the ideology of Climatism lead its adherents to advocate increased government restrictions on human liberty, even on use of the most economical and environmentally benign sources of energy. Steve Gorehams insightful and readable analysis of this new ideology and its socialistic goals is an important addition to public understanding of both the facts and the critical importance of making the right decisions for America. If the climate alarmists werent so serious about taking away our liberty in the name of controlling the climate, they would be funny.

Consider the following points:

1. Climate alarmists admit that for 4.5 billion years until about 50 years ago, natural events controlled Earths climate. But then they claim that, all of a sudden, human produced carbon dioxide (CO2) took over that control.
2. Climate alarmists predict that global temperatures will rise due to human use of fossil fuels, but they ignore the fact that temperatures have been rising naturally about one degree every century since the Little Ice Age began to wane 350 years ago.
3. Climate alarmists admit that strong correlations exist between variations in solar activity and variations in climate, but since they do not know a mechanism that would relate one to the other, they say that those correlations are meaningless.
4. Climate alarmists see a strong correlation in ice cores between increases in global temperature and increases in atmospheric CO2, but they find it unimportant that the increases in CO2 follow increases in temperature rather than precede them.
5. Climate alarmists consider climate to be controlled by CO2 in the atmosphere, but they conveniently forget the oceans capacity to absorb and release heat and CO2 dwarfs that of the atmosphere by factors of 1,100 and 50, respectively.
6. Climate alarmists see current increases in atmospheric CO2 as caused by the burning of fossil fuels, but they discount the fact that isotopic analysis shows that only four percent of the CO2 in the atmosphere has come from fossil fuels with the vast majority being released from other sources, particularly from the oceans.
7. Climate alarmists believe that global warming and increases in atmospheric CO2 will sound the death knell for human civilization but find it convenient to forget that warming is better for human longevity, and that increased CO2 will significantly increase the food supply.
8. Climate alarmists believe that global climate models can predict the Earths climate future but dismiss the fact that their predictions for atmospheric warming over the last 50 years have been proven wrong by direct measurement from satellites.

Nothing in the Constitution of the United States gives the Congress or the Executive Branch the power to attempt the task of regulating climate, as impossible as that would be under any realistic scenarios. No national security emergency exists relative to climate that would warrant increased governmental control of energy production. Todays Americans have an obligation to future Americans to elect leaders who do not believe in an omnipotent government but believe, as did the Founders, in limited government, and in the preservation of liberty and the natural rights of the people.

Harrison H. Schmitt, PhD,
former US Senator and
Apollo 17 Astronaut

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

F or twenty years, since the 1992 Earth Summit, realist climate scientists have challenged the rising ideological philosophy that man-made emissions are causing catastrophic global warming. Ridiculed, scorned, labeled deniers, and called stooges for big oil and coal, these courageous men and women have taken the blows and stood firm for proper climate science and against ideological alarmism. This book references the scientific work and opinions of Dennis Avery, Bob Carter, Joseph DAleo, David Evans, Bill Gray, William Happer, Craig Idso, Dick Lindzen, Stephen McIntyre, Ross McKitrick, Joanne Nova, Fred Singer, Roy Spencer, Henrik Svensmark, Anthony Watts, and many other realist climate scientists.