CLIMATISM!

Reviewed 6/27/2012

Climatism!, by Steve Goreham

Access to this book courtesy of the
San Jose, CA Public Library
CLIMATISM!
Science, Common Sense, and the 21st Century's Hottest Topic
Steve Goreham
John Coleman (Fwd.)
New Lenox, IL: New Lenox Books, April 2010

Rating:

2.0

Fair
ISBN-13 978-0-9824996-3-4
ISBN 0-9824996-3-9 466pp. HC/BWI $32.95

Further Reading

Blue Planet in Green Shackles, Václav Klaus (Competitive Enterprise Institute, 2007)

Climate Change Reconsidered, Craig Idso & S. Fred Singer (Heartland Institute, 2009)

Climate Confusion, Roy Spencer (Encounter, 2008)

Climate of Extremes, Patrick J. Michaels & Robert Balling, Jr. (Cato Institute, 2009)

CO2, Global Warming and Coral Reefs, Craig Idso (Science and Public Policy Institute, 2009)

Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death, Paul Driessen (Free Enterprise Press, 2003)

Green Hell, Steve Milloy (Regnery, 2003)

Gusher of Lies, Robert Bryce (Public Affairs, 2008)

Heaven and Earth, Ian Plimer (Connor Court, 2009)

Red Hot Lies, Christopher Horner (Regnery, 2008)

Solar Fraud, Howard C. Haydn (Vales Lake, 2005)

The Bottomless Well, Peter Huber & Mark Mills (Basic Books, 2005)

The Chilling Stars, Henrik Svensmark and Nigel Calder (Totem, 2007)

The Deniers, Lawrence Solomon (Richard Vigilante Books, 2008)

The Improving State of Our World, Indur Goklany (Cato Institute, 2007)

The Politically Correct (sic)1 Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism), Christopher C. Horner (Regnery, 2007)

The Real Global Warming Disaster, Christopher Booker (Continuum, 2009)

The Really Inconvenient Truths, Iain Murray (Regnery, 2008)

The Skeptical Environmentalist, Bjorn Lomborg (Cambridge University Press, 2001)2

The Ultimate Resource 2, Julian L. Simon (Princeton University Press, 2008)

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 years, S. Fred Singer and Dennis Avery (Rowman [sic] & Littlefield, 2008)

The 22 titles above are the complete list of Goreham's recommendations. I show them in red because they are Right, not because they are right. They are red because, IMO, they should not be read. Please don't mistake my poor puns for an attempt to suppress the real honest-to-God truth about climate change.3 What I mean is that they give misleading information, and thus reading them loses you time that could be better spent on other books. Here are some suggestions (all but the last are linked to my reviews):

  1. The Climate Crisis, David Archer & Stefan Rahmstorf, Cambridge University Press, 2010
  2. Fixing Climate, Wallace S. Broecker & Robert Kunzig, Hill and Wang, 2008
  3. With Speed and Violence, Fred Pearce, Beacon Press, 2007
  4. The Inquisition of Climate Science, James Lawrence Powell, Columbia University Press, 2011
  5. Under a Green Sky, Peter D. Ward, Smithsonian/HarperCollins, 2007
  6. Driven to Extinction, Richard Preston, Sterling, 2011
  7. The Weather of the Future, Heidi Cullen, HarperCollins, 2010
  8. Changing Planet, Changing Health, Paul R. Epstein & Dan Ferber, University of California Press, 2011
  9. Forecast, Stephan Faris, Henry Holt & Company, 2009
  10. Early Spring, Amy Seidl, Beacon Press, 2009
  11. Climate Wars, Gwynne Dyer, OneWorld Publications, 2010
  12. Six Degrees, Mark Lynas, National Geographic, 2008
1 This "Correct" is not correct (see Errata.) The book itself is also incorrect; see my review.
2 See Lomborg Errors. It includes a revealing comparison of the number of errors in the works of Lomborg and Al Gore.
3 In any case, I have no power to stop anyone reading whatever books they choose (unless perhaps zey haff relatiffs now livink in Cyberspace...)
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