Roy W Spencer

Gebundenes Buch

Climate Confusion

How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians, and Misguided Policies That Hurt the Poor

Beschreibung

Spencer shows that fears about global warming are vastly exaggerated and are driven by politics, not truth. This book combines impeccable scientific authority with great wit to expose the hysteria surrounding the myths of global warming and climate change.

Autor

Roy W. Spencer is a Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where he directs a variety of climate research projects. He received his Ph.D. in Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin in 1981, and was formerly a Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA. Dr. Spencer also serves as the U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR-E) flying on NASA's Aqua satellite. He is co-developer of the original satellite method for precise monitoring of global temperatures from Earth-orbiting satellites. He has authored numerous weather and climate research articles in scientific journals, and has provided congressional testimony several times on the subject of global warming. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Encounter Books
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781594032103
• ISBN-10: 1594032106
• Artikelnr.: 23270522