Page 41 ‘Recently three changes in atmospheric chemistry have become familiar subjects of concern. The first is the increase in the greenhouse gases’ – ibid.
Page 42 ‘Indeed it has been suggested’ – Courtney, R., ‘Global Warming: How It All Began’. Available at: http://www.john-daly.com/history.htm [Accessed 15 January 2011].
Page 42 ‘The Hadley Centre, in turn, helped to produce the primary data set’ – Met Office website [accessed 13 March 2011]. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-change/resources/hadley
Page 43 ‘Certainly it was at Tickell’s suggestion that she made’ – see Booker, C., (2009) The Real Global Warming Disaster (Cornwall: Continuum), p. 43.
Page 43 ‘inspired him in 1977 to publish a book on the imminent doom facing mankind’ – Tickell, C., (1978), Climate Change and World Affairs (Oxford: Pergamon).
Page 44 ‘Eleven years later, in the revised 1988 edition’ – ibid. See also: http://www.crispintickell.com/page79.html [Accessed 15 January 2011].
Page 44 ‘Perhaps unsurprisingly given his job, Tickell’s proposed solution to this apparently urgent crisis (the precise nature of which he did not yet understand) was the creation of a new supranational environmental body’ – see: http://www.crispintickell.com/page77.html [Accessed 15 January 2011].
Page 45 ‘The Times incisively analysed this process’ – quoted in Booker, C., & North, R., (2005), The Great Deception: Can the EU Survive? (Continuum).
Page 47 ‘Professor Bert Bolin, the mild-mannered, self-effacing Swedish meteorologist’ – see Science News (May 9, 1959) at: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/43155/
title/Science_Past_from_the_issue_of_May_9,_1959 [Accessed 15 January 2011].
Page 47 ‘He was also author of the 500-page, keynote paper which set the alarmist tone for an influential UN-sponsored conference’ – Bolin, B. (1987), Our Common Future, World Commission on Environment and Development, (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press).
Page 47 ‘As Al Gore said on collecting his Nobel Peace Prize’ – quoted in Brown, P., (2008), ‘Obituary: Bert Bolin’, Guardian Online, January 9. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/
jan/09/climatechange.mainsection [Accessed 15 January 2011].
Page 49 ‘According to science historian Spencer Weart’ – Weart, S., (2004), The Discovery of Global Warming (USA: Harvard University Press).
Page 51 ‘Revelle’s scepticism proved most inconvenient for Al Gore.’ – Gore, A., (2000), Earth in Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose (London: Earthscan).
Page 51 ‘In July 1988, he had written to Senator Tim Wirth of Colorado’ – as quoted in: Singer, S., F., (2000), ‘Gore’s ‘global warming mentor’ in his own words’, The Heartland Institute. Available at: http://www.heartland.org/policybot/results/9858/
Gores_global_warming_mentor_in
_his_own_words.html [Accessed 15 January 2011].
Page 51 ‘Later, Revelle made his scepticism even more explicit in a paper’ – Singer, S., F., Revelle, R., & Starr, C., (1992), ‘What to Do About Greenhouse Warming: Look Before You Leap’, Cosmos Vol.2, No.5. Available at: http://www.his.com/~sepp/key%20issues/glwarm/cosmos.html [Accessed 15 January 2011].
Page 52 ‘Koppel noted that there was ‘some irony in the fact that Vice President Gore” – Koppel, T., (1994) ‘Is Environmental Science for Sale?’ ABC News Nightline Transcript, February 24.
Page 53 ‘Unless his name rings a bell as the guy from the Climategate emails who wanted to ‘beat the crap out of’ climate sceptic Pat Michaels’ – see: http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=1045 [Accessed 15 January 2011].
Page 53 ‘He achieved this in his role as ‘lead author’ of Chapter 8’ – the ‘IPCC Second Assessment Report’ is available at: http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/climate-changes-1995/ipcc-2nd-assessment/2nd-assessment-en.pdf [Accessed 15 January 2011].
Pages 53–54 ‘It included these passages’ – Singer, S., F., & Avery D., T., (2006), Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years, (Rowman & Littlefield), pp. 63-4.
Page 54 ‘In a Wall Street Journal article titled ‘A Major Deception on Global Warming’ – Seitz, F., (1996), ‘A Major Deception on ‘Global Warming’’, Wall Street Journal, June 12. Available at: http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/
PDF_Papers/WSJ_June12.pdf [Accessed 15 January 2011].
Page 55 ‘A letter issued by the U.S. State Department to Sir John Houghton, then head of the IPCC’ – as discussed in Singer, S., F., & Avery, D., T., (2006), Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years (Rowman & Littlefield), p. 64.
Page 55 ‘The reason for this change in attitude, Senator Wirth admitted’ – remarks by Timothy Wirth before the Second Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, July 17, 1996. Available at: http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/briefing/dispatch/1996/
html/Dispatchv7n030.html [Accessed 13 April 2011].
Page 55 ‘Dr James Hansen … testified that “the earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time in the history of instrumental measurements”.’ – testimony of James Hansen before U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, 23 June 1988.
Page 56 ‘No wonder Time magazine was inspired to write a big story’ – Brand, D., & Dorfman, A., (1988), ‘Is The Earth Warming Up?’, Time magazine, July 4. Available at: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/
article/0,9171,967822,00.html [Accessed 15 January 2011].
Page 56 ‘and the New York Times reported’ – Shabecoff, P., (1988), ‘Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate’, New York Times, June 24. Available at: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE7DF133AF937A15755C0A96E948260 [Accessed 15 January 2011].
Page 56 ‘No wonder a senior New York Times journalist subsequently described the moment as a major breakthrough’ – Philip Shabecoff, New York Times, as quoted in 2007 PBS documentary ‘Hot Politics’, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/
hotpolitics/etc/script.html [accessed 4 March 2011]
Page 56 ‘Then, as Wirth proudly confessed to a US PBS documentary in 2007, they rigged the hearing room temperature’ – PBS interview, 17 January 2007, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/
hotpolitics/interviews/wirth.html [accessed March 4, 2011]
Page 57 ‘I’m thinking, for example, of the British government’s 2009 ‘Bedtime Stories’ advertising campaign’ – Webster, B., (2009), ‘Ministers target climate change doubters in prime-time TV advert’, Times Online, October 9. Available at: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/
environment/article6867046.ece [Accessed 18 January 2011].
Page 57 ‘After nearly a thousand complaints from members of the public…’ – see ‘Climate change ‘exaggerated’ in government ads’, BBC News, March 17, 2010. Available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8571353.stm [Accessed 18 January 2011].
Pages 57–58 ‘One poster said: ‘Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. There was none as extreme weather due to climate change had caused a drought.’ See Revoir, P (2010), ‘Jack and Jill hyped up the risks of global warming in government adverts for children’, Daily Mail Online, March 18, 2010. Available at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1258712/Jack-Jill-hyped-risks-global-warming-government-adverts-children.html [Accessed 18 January 2011].
Page 58 ‘The other said: “Rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub – a necessary course of action due to flash flooding caused by climate change”.’ – ibid.
Page 58 ‘If the ASA had been better informed and more robust, it would surely also have censured the most offensive advert of the lot…’ – see ‘ACTONC02 ‘Bedtime Stories’ TV Advertisement, October 2009’, YouTube. Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w62gsctP2gc [Accessed 18 January 2011].
Page 59 ‘Consider, for example, this statement made in Britain’s House of Lords in July 2010 by Lord Marland…’ – Lords Hansard, July 5, 2010 Main Chamber Debates. Available at: http://services.parliament.uk/hansard/Lords/bydate/
20100705/mainchamberdebates/part004.html [Accessed 18 January 2011].
Page 59 ‘the disastrous experience in Spain’ – Calzada, G., A., et al (2009), ‘Study of the effects on employment of public aid to renewable energy sources’, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Available at: http://www.juandemariana.org/pdf/090327-employment-public-aid-renewable.pdf [Accessed 18 January 2011].
Page 60 ‘Among the many wise individuals who have seen through…’ – Thatcher, M., (2003), Statecraft, (Harper Collins).
Chapter Four: In the Pay of Big Koch
Page 61 ‘Carter Roberts, President and CEO, World Wildlife Fund Inc., Total Compensation (2009): $455,147’– IRS Form 990 for 2009, page 77. Available at: http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/
financialinfo/WWFBinaryitem20499.PDF
Page 61 ‘Frances Beinecke, President, Natural Resources Defense Council, Total Compensation (2009): $432,742’– IRS Form 990 for 2009, page 38. Available at: http://www.nrdc.org/about/NRDC_990_2009.pdf
Page 61 ‘Fred Krupp, President, Environmental Defense Fund, Total Compensation (2009): $423,359’– IRS Form 990 for 2009, page 45. Available at: http://www.edf.org/documents/11602_2010-09_EDF
_990_FINAL_PUBLIC_VERSION_SECURED.pdf
Page 64 ‘according to environmental activist George Monbiot…’ – Monbiot, G., (2009), ‘The denial industry case notes’, Guardian Online, 07 December. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/
georgemonbiot/2009/dec/07/georgemonbiot-blog-
climate-denial-industry [Accessed 18 January 2011].
Page 65 ‘An insight into how sceptics work – follow the funding.’ – see Campaign Against Climate Change’s website at: http://www.campaigncc.org/sceptics#sceptic_insight [Accessed 18 January 18 2011].
Page 66 ‘what philosopher Jamie Whyte calls the ‘Motive Fallacy’’ – Whyte, J., (2003), Bad Thoughts: A Guide to Clear Thinking (Corvo Books).
Page 67 ‘a Guardian article he’d written in 2006…’ – Monbiot, G., (2006), ‘The threat is from those who accept climate change, not those who deny it’, Guardian Online, September 21. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/
sep/21/comment.georgemonbiot [Accessed 19 January 19 2011].
Page 67 ‘Al Gore pushing this line’ – Gore, A., (2006) An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, (New York: Rodale Press), p. 263.
Page 68 ‘Here is one (October 2003) from our friend Michael Mann to Robert Matthews…’ – see: http://assassinationscience.com/climategate/
1/FOIA/mail/1065125462.txt [Accessed 19 January 2011].
Page 68 ‘Or, as Michael Mann hilariously put it in February 2010…’ – see: http://hw.libsyn.com/p/8/7/e/87e0736aa2decb69/
POI_2010_02_26_Michael_Mann.mp3?
sid=461ae31a711c74222f40fc1d2920cf6d&1_
sid=18988&1_eid=&1_mid=1770538 [Accessed 19 January 2011]
Page 70 ‘£1.1m spent by British Council on ‘Challenge Europe’…’ – EU Referendum Blog, February 4, 2010. Available at: http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/02/british-council-spends-35-million-on.html [Accessed 19 January 2011].
Page 70 ‘£2.5m spent by British Council on International Climate Champions programme’ – see ‘British Council spends £3.5 million on climate change propaganda’, EU Referendum Blog, February 4, 2010. Available at: http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/02/british-council-spends-35-million-on.html [Accessed 19 January 2011].
Page 70 ‘£6m spent by British government on ‘hard-hitting’ Bedtime Stories ad targeting climate sceptics…’ – Webster, B., (2009), ‘Ministers target climate change doubters in prime-time TV advert’, Times Online, October 9. Available at: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/
environment/article6867046.ece [Accessed 18 January 2011].
Page 70 ‘£13.7m received in grants since 1990 by Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit at University of East Anglia.’ – Mendick, R., (2009), ‘‘Climategate’ professor Phil Jones awarded £13 million in research grants’,’ Telegraph Online, December 5. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6735846/Climategate-professor-Phil-Jones-awarded-13-million-in-research-grants.html [Accessed 19 January 2011].
Page 70 ‘A$13.9m – spent by Australian government on its 2009 Think Climate Think Change ad campaign.’ – see Maiden, S., (2009), ‘Rudd advertising campaign on climate change costs $13.9 million’, The Australian Online, January 7. Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/think-climate-think-rudds-14m-ads/story-e6frg6n6-1111118501252 [Accessed 19 January 2011].
Page 70 ‘US$70m pledged by Rockefeller Foundation…’ – see: http://philanthropy.com/article/Rockefeller-Commits/62676/ [Accessed 19 January 2011].
Page 70 ‘$100m donated by ExxonMobil …to Stanford University’s Global Climate and Energy Project.’ – see Stanford University’s Global Climate and Energy Project at: http://gcep.stanford.edu/about/sponsors.html [Accessed 19 January 2011].
Page 70 ‘£243m – paid by UK government since 1990 to fund Met Office’s ‘climate prediction’ programme’ – see ‘Money Talking’, EU Referendum Blog. Available at: http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/02/money-talking.html [Accessed 19 January 2011].
Page 70 ‘£650m – paid by European Union for…’ – see ‘Money Talking’, EU Referendum Blog, 19 February 2010. Available at: http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/02/money-talking.html [Accessed 19 January 2011].
Page 71 ‘$4bn allocated in the 2011 US Federal budget for climate research’ – see Horn, A., (2011), ‘How Much of Your Money Wasted on ‘Climate Change’? Try $10.6 Million a Day’, Pajamas Media Blog, 15 January. Available at: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/how-much-of-your-money-wasted-on-climate-change-try-10-6-million-a-day/ [Accessed 19 January 2011].
Page 71 ‘$126bn World Bank estimate of carbon trading industry turnover in 2008.’ – see Capoor, K., & Ambrosi, P., (2009) ‘State and Trends of Carbon Market 2009’, World Bank. Available at: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/
INTCARBONFINANCE/Resources/
State___Trends_of_the_Carbon_Market_
2009-FINAL_26_May09.pdf [Accessed 19 January 2011], p. 1.
Page 71 ‘The best estimate so far comes from Australian blogger Jo Nova…’ – Nova, J., (2010), ‘The Money Trail’, ABC Online, March 4. Available at: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2835581.htm [Accessed 19 January 2011].
Page 71 ‘Dr Richard North did some calculations of his own.’ – North, R., (2010), ‘Five times the cost of the Manhattan Project’, EU Referendum Blog, 5 March. Available at: http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/03/five-times-cost-of-manhattan-project.html [Accessed 19 January 2011].
Page 75 ‘As the UK’s Natural Environmental Research Council subsequently confirmed’ – NERC (1996) ‘First Report of the Scientific Group on Decommissioning Offshore Structures.’ Bourne Press: Bournemouth.
Page 76 ‘At first, many of the causes were championed, such as opposition to nuclear testing and protection of whales…’ – Moore, P., (2008), ‘Why I Left Greenpeace’, Wall Street Journal, April 22. Available at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120882720657033391.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries [Accessed 19 January 2011].
Page 77 ‘campaign leaflets like this one…from Friends of the Earth’ – see: http://dev.foe.co.uk/campaigns/economy/
press_for_change/profet_before_
planet_23627.html [Accessed 13 April 2011]
Page 78 ‘Probably the most ambitious is the WWF…’ – Booker, C., (2010), ‘WWF hopes to find $60 billion growing on trees’, Telegraph Online, March 20. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/
columnists/christopherbooker/7488629/WWF-hopes-
to-find-60-billion-growing-on-trees.html [Accessed 19 January 2011].
Page 80 ‘You see this cropping up in the Climategate files, in a July 1999 email from the WWF’s Adam Markham…’ – see: http://assassinationscience.com/climategate/
1
/FOIA/mail/0933255789.txt [Accessed 19 January 2011].
Page 81 ‘More egregious still is the influence green NGOs have been allowed over the supposedly authoritative, neutral IPCC.’ – Laframboise, D., (2010), ‘Greenpeace and the Nobel Winning Climate Report’, No Frakking Consensus Blog. Available at: http://nofrakkingconsensus.blogspot.com/2010/01/greenpeace-and-nobel-winning-climate_28.html [Accessed 19 January 2011].
Page 82 ‘As Labour peer Baroness Worthington’ – Bishop Hill blog 27 September 2011 ‘Guilty men and guilty women’, Available at: http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2011/9/27/guilty-men-and-guilty-women.html [Accessed 1 November 2011]
Page 83 ‘The 2008 Climate Change Act, which by the government’s own official estimates will cost the taxpayer £18.3 billion a year every year till 2050 on a vainglorious attempt to ‘decarbonise’ the UK economy.’ See Department of Energy and Climate Change: Climate Change Act 2008 Impact Assessment. Available at: www.decc.gov.uk/assets/decc/85_20090310164124_
e_@@_climate-changeactia.pdf [Accessed 8 November 2011]
Page 83 ‘Gustave Le Bon’ – Le Bon, G., (2005), The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, (United States: Filiquarian Pub.). Available at: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5kOgI_Oz4H8C [Accessed 13 April 2011]
Page 84 ‘When an affirmation has been sufficiently repeated and there is unanimity in this repetition’ – ibid., page 121.
Page 84 ‘the work of a man from Phoenix, Arizona named Russell Cook…’ – Cook, R., (2010), ‘Has the Mainstream Media Trusted Enviro-activists for Advice on Listening to Sceptic Scientists?’, Climate Realists, August 23. Available at: http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=6175 [Accessed 19 January 19 2011].
Chapter Five: The Science is Unsettled
Page 89 ‘Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus.’ – Crichton, M. (2003), ‘Aliens Cause Global Warming’, January 17. Event info: http://media.caltech.edu/events/35247 Text available at: http://brinnonprosperity.org/crichton2.html [Accessed 23 January 2011].
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