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There is a new book that I just heard about that identifies the Global Warming Conspiracy more accurately than anything I have seen.

What makes this interesting is the tone and consistency of the comments regarding this thesis.

I think Global Warming and the AL GORE Conspiracy is dead.

THANK GOD!

The truth is a little more complex…, November 17, 2008
By   Clifford F. Mass “Cliff Mass” (Seattle) 
Just a quick comment from a researcher working on local climate change and directly quoted in this book as an example. I am also the author of the book that is number two on the amazon weather list…just behind this book!
A few things are true: the media often exaggerates the threat of global warming or gets the facts wrong. Nothing new here, they do the same for everything else. Although most scientists try to be neutral, we are human and some bias…mainly in interpretation, not data processing, sneaks in. And there is subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) pressur)not to stray with the mainline view. This has happened many times before in science and eventually facts win out (there was a time when the authorities though the world was flat!). It is also true that global warming is a real issue and that mankind’s influence will be profound by the end of the century. Just basic physics.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read For Every American, November 15, 2008
By   Crosslands (Maryland USA) - See all my reviews
This book should be read by every American. Mr. Horner does yeoman work exposing the global warming alarmist network and the fraud and repression by which this group tries to advance its case. Mr. Horner’s book is generally very well written, factual, and abounding in references. The quantity of references is so vast that a person availing him or her self to all of them would achieve the equivalent of a college education.

Mr. Horner digs deep into the prevalent mainstream media balance. Media reports to resounding degree any claim or factoid the climate alarmists come up with but ignores even the most scientifically proven rebuttals and refutations to the climate alarmists views. A large part of the problem is that the journalists covering the global climate issue are the environmental journalists who happen to be mostly dedicated to all environmentalist causes and directly their reporting accordingly. Often these journalists are too biased or lazy to seek out the truth.

Then Mr. Horner reports on the represion of dissenters of climate alarmism by bureaucratic establishments and ignorant demented zealots. The bureaucrats deny funding and media access to climate skeptics many times. The ecofreak zealots are often on hand to demand that government, academic, and other institutions act to suppress the views of climate skeptics. The more extreme and debased ecofreaks even issue threats and sometimes even try to harm scientists who refute the climate alarmists. Their activity adds a great burden to the democratic system and human welfare.

Mr. Horner also discusses somewhat well known and not so well known instances of scientific fraud. Specifically he brings up the fraud of Michael Mann’s hockey stick. He brings light on the refusal of many alarmist posturing scientists to make public their data and methodology. Thus their presumed research can not be replicated and tested. This hiding of data and method is definitively not genuine science. New to this reviewer is the data manipulation and messaging at the Goddard Institute of Space Studies under noted alarmist James Hansen. It is a disgrace and blow to science that Hansen is allowed to continue his control of the Goddard Institute.

Then Mr. Horner exposes the Interplanetary Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations. He demolishes many myths of the the IPCC such as its reports are the result of scientific endeaver and that the reports represent the views of most world climate scientists and the scientists who provided the group with their research. In fact the IPCC is controlled by a small number of international bureaucrats and pro alarmist scientists who concoct and manipulate the climate evidence and data to support their biases.

Basically the global warming hoax is not a scientific theory but a debased religous sect that is both misanthropic and power hungry. Martin Durkin who produced the documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle attributes much of the growth of this sect to romanticism, a hatred for technology and science and a longing to return to some imaginary pristine past where debased intellectuals and psuedo philosophers would be at the upper echelons of society and not have their authority challenged by a literate, scinetifically and technologically aware population. Instead these would be gurus would dominate an sub literate herd of peasants living in ignorance, desease, and filth. This society woud be a nightmare for most of humanity. Mr. Horner deserves our attention, thanks, and praise for standing against these demented ecofreaks.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Read and Prepare, November 15, 2008
By   Roger Gay “rogerfgay” (Haninge, Sweden) - See all my reviews
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The global warming hoax is the center of a war to bring down the civilized governments of the world and establish a new order. Such a dramatic statement is not difficult for me to understand. My own background brought me head-to-head with Big Lie politics years earlier. What I encountered, the established mechanisms of corruption, the deception, the propaganda, the establishment of a community of scientists, paid with government funds, all supporting the same lies or not receiving funding, a cowardly and compliant media; the call for government action and the huge budgets that followed - and then the destruction of millions of lives - it’s all too familiar to me.

That was Ronald Reagan’s welfare reform, dramatically increasing government spending, expanding the welfare system to a true welfare state from which no one can escape, changing the relationship between government and the people to allow arbitrary control, and getting the federal government into domestic relations where it constitutionally does not belong - leading to the legal destruction of the institutions of marriage and family. A new regime of “public-private partnership” was created to siphon billions in public money to private hands. But all that’s small potatoes compared to the global warming hoax.

By the time Al Gore entered the Senate, Ronald Reagan was beginning his second term. Reagan was transforming the country, entirely by deceit. For all the people knew, his initiatives were guided by conservative principles with the intent of reducing welfare roles. It took both Reagan’s terms to set it all up. As VP, Gore sat with Bill Clinton who exploited Reagan’s “change” as his own “end welfare as we know it” initiative. (Want a reality check: Welfare is still alive and more expensive than ever.)

It was part of Al Gore’s fundamental political training and Reagan defined a winner. To him, it’s just the way the political world works and you do it if you want to be on top.

The goals behind the global warming hoax, both in terms of increased government power and control and money-siphoning, are orders of magnitude greater than Reagan’s hoax. Reagan’s smaller effort changed the world for the worse for millions of people. The legacy Al Gore intends is global in scope and much more terrifying. If there is any hope of stopping it, or even slowing it down, public education is essential. Read the book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome…A must read, November 15, 2008
By   Joseph S. D’Aleo “Senior Climatologist” (Hudson, NH USA) - See all my reviews
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Vaclac Klaus, President of the Czech Republic has said that the “Climate change debate is not about science, it is about ideology”.

This is clearly apparent in this thoroughly detailed and carefully documented book about what has got to be the best orchestrated scam (thank you John Coleman for voicing that opinion) ever perpetrated on the good people of the world. It shows many powerful forces complicit in this scam including the UN, the world’s governments, the now fat environmental groups, the well-funded internet alarmist bloggers, the mainstream media even in its decline, many academics and universities riding the new grant gravy train and the once professional societies for which the academics are the prime constituents. As Chris documented, Dr. Robert Corell, the Director of the Global Change Program at The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment and a Senior Policy Fellow at the Policy Program of the American Meteorological Society observed candidly and correctly to colleagues at a conference in the early 1990s “we must not miss this golden goose as this field has never before seen funding like that which is going to be involved here.”

Even though I have been close to this issue from the science side for decades, Chris’s book has profoundly affected my thinking on how and why this perversion of science has taken place and who the real puppeteers controlling the strings are. It left me more worried than ever about the future reputation of our science when the truth becomes clear. I also have enhanced concern for our collective financial security as the policies under consideration can only make the global financial meltdown worse. And it will not be the heating from greenhouse gases responsible. Retirement seems so far away again.

This book is an absolute must read for all decision makers in government and industry who will have a say in carbon emission control strategies, and energy choices as well as all citizens who want to preserve their cherished democratic rights and privileges and save our already battered economies from even more damage from the wrong, costly programs our government seem hell bent on implementing allegedly based on flawed science that is not allowed to be challenged but mainly driven by totally unrelated political or socioeconomic change agendas.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Parents and School Teachers - Please Read the Book! , November 13, 2008
By   Brian G. Valentine “engineering physicist” (Virginia) - See all my reviews
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I never saw the movie, “Inconvenient Truth” - but I heard people speaking about the movie after it was released.

Among other things, some people (including children) were “horrified” to learn that Polar Bears were drowning in the Artic Ocean from lack of ice floes to rest upon. Pretty gruesome, I thought, and the sight must have been frightening.

Two years later I learned - the images shown were cartoons of the event. The cartoons were based on some hearsay evidence about four polar bears caught in a storm. No actual pictures of the event (or details of the real circumstances that surrounded the event) were presented.

As Chris Horner most decisively shows, this bit of theatre is a metaphor for the whole “global warming” charade in its entirety. People are being frightened - and policy is being decided - based on nothing more than cartoons. The cartoons are presented in a variety of formats: from computer model projections that have been fixed in advance, to demands to shutter coal energy electricity plants based on nothing more than the emotional harangue of despicable metaphors of genocide.

Parents and teachers who are not familiar with the details of it: the “science” behind the whole scenario is quackery, pure and simple. Many people bought into it because they trusted the word of those behind it. Those who developed this so-called “science” - did so with foregone conclusions in intention. Slowly but surely the truth of the matter is coming to light - and a lot of people are resting their reputations on absolutely bogus work.

The environmental “movement” of course completely rejects that notion - and takes offence (and aim) at those who even question the absolute veracity of it all.

Ladies and gentlemen - your intuition about the whole “global warming” scam is right on target. It IS a complete [.....]. Chris Horner shows to what lengths some people with vested interests will go to perpetuate this [.....].

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read, November 13, 2008
By   Patrick J. Michaels (Waynesboro, VA) - See all my reviews
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The subtitle of “Red Hot Lies”, “How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed” says it all, and Chris Horner has done an admirable job.

This highly-referenced book details what all too many scientists know, but are afraid to speak about: the truth on global warming is not to be told, or, if it is told, the cost of telling it will be dear. I know from whence I speak, perhaps more personally than most of the people that Horner writes about. And what he says is true. If you don’t think global warming is going to be the end of the world, and, especially if you can quantitatively and effectively demonstrate that in public, watch out!

On the other hand, if you are willing to wheedle data to show a foregone conclusion, or puff a kernel of reality into a cornfield of alarm, you are going to do very well.

Horner documents these truths with remarkable clarity and irrefutable evidence. I’m sure he’s already received some fine email as a result.

If you want to see proof of his thesis, just watch the reactions. They will attack Horner, or where he works, but not the facts that he elucidates on global warming. This will be because Horner is pretty fair to the data. He’s more in the camp that warming is quite real but quite less threatening than portrayed by likes of Al Gore, Joe Romm, or the myriad of apocalyptics feeding on public fear for personal gain. For that he will be pilloried.

I recommend reading this book along with “Liberal Fascism”, by Jonah Goldberg. It’s too bad that Horner didn’t quite get to tying up the connection, but I suspect that will become obvious in the near future. The shouting down of opposition, the agenda of command-and-control, the abject fear of fact-based argument, and the use of youth and students are all tied together.

What is interesting, but left for the reader to ponder, is this: Obviously there is a tremendously well-oiled and funded machine out there that portrays exaggerated climate change as fact, and this includes the political, journalistic, university communities, as well as the guardians of the so-called canon of scientific knowledge, the refereed journals. But Horner does cite a number of papers in the refereed literature that debunk hysteria. Given the overall climate of exaggeration, the fact that these papers were publshed must mean that they were absolutely compelling.

What is fearful, though, is the incident he described at the journal Climate Research, where editors resigned in “protest” of the publication of a non-alarmist paper. I had one in there a few years ago, and I saw the process first-hand. Tom Wigley and a few of his cronies demanded that the paper be withdrawn, and that the process as to how it could have been published be investigated. The message to editors is clear: if you’re not with us, we’re against you. That creates a scientific climate of fear.

Also touched upon is the unwillingness of scientists to open their data files to others. When Australian climatologist Warrick Hughes asked Phil Jones, the developer of the United Nations’ climate history, for the raw data (he wanted to see how the error bars were calculated), Jones responded: “We have 25 years or so invested in this work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it”?

The last I heard, “science” is about finding “something wrong” with what has gone before. But that is not true in a world of Red Hot Lies.

In summary, read this book. Everything you feared about global warming science is true, and it is only going to get worse.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Global warming advocates are learning from Stalinist textbooks, November 12, 2008
By   Lubos Motl (Cambridge, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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During my years in the U.S. Academia, I experienced a couple of events related to the global warming propaganda that I found stunning. Scientists around me (including myself) were subjects of intimidation and disciplinary proceedings - or they were instantly fired - because of their skeptical views about the climate change (or even for skeptical results of their work).

Chris Horner shows us that those events were not coincidences. Environmentalism has become a new ideology that has replaced Stalinism and that is beginning to take over the Western world - a world that has enjoyed freedom and democracy for centuries. You will learn that Greenpeace is reading from Horner’s trash, in order to obtain materials that they could find helpful in their propaganda war.

Do you know what’s happening to the children at schools? They are being indoctrinated. In fact, they are expected to revolt against their parents who “cause global warming”. Because the children have to watch scientifically unrealistic horror movies related to the climate, such as An Inconvenient Truth, many of them don’t sleep well at night.

Many politicians are scared of the “momentum” that they demand “action” against the climate change, too. Scientists who don’t join this irrational hysteria are being threatened, likened to criminals or even Islamic terrorists. Journalists produce piles of lies and distort scientific findings that are already damaged by biased peer review or full-fledged censorship.

This whole scary machine is moving in the direction chosen by the environmental activists who are always “ahead” of their followers. Right now, they want the “dissidents” to be censored or even arrested. Are their today’s dreams going to become reality on the day after tomorrow? Meanwhile, there is no climate crisis. In fact, there hasn’t been any statistically significant global warming at least for 13 years. But the society seems to be choosing a direction that is disconnected from any observations or science.

The similarity of the environmentalists’ techniques with those of the Nazis and communists are far too obvious. If you live outside the Academia or other sectors of the society influenced by this movement, and you are not certain whether there is a reason to worry, read this insightful and shocking book because it can tell you what you might expect tomorrow unless we manage to defeat this new ideological cancer bubbling in the society.
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37 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Red Hot Lies Exposes The Truth On Global Warming Alarmists, November 12, 2008
By   BoilerT “BoilerT” (Indianapolis, Indiana USA) - See all my reviews
Chris Horner exposes the jack-booted thuggery of the Environmental movement. How inconvenient for the Environuts that it has been cooling under President Bush. Between scaring the kiddies and brainwashing the adults, the Environmental Left has no shame - including sifting through the author’s trash!!!
Polar Bears dying out? No, they have actually increased in population. Hard scientific evidence showing the earth is warming? Maybe if they didn’t put their equipment above a Weber Grill, they would get a different result. Hey, but don’t listen to me - read the book!!! It actually has FACTS, and they most certainly are a stubborn thing.
Finally, all the negative nellies that will write their “reviews” will NOT have read this book. More proof of their fanatical devotion to the Green’s Holy Grail. Become informed on the facts - buy this book, it’s well worth the time.