Don't Sell Your Coat: Surprising Truths About Climate Change - Softcover

Harold Ambler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615569048 ISBN 13: 9780615569048

Publisher: Lansing International Books, 2011

Synopsis

Not very long ago, scientists, politicians, and journalists were seemingly unanimous: Global warming had already damaged nature, and things were only going to get worse. Snow was rapidly becoming a thing of the past; summers were becoming hotter; storms were becoming more violent; droughts and floods were becoming more intense. This was a nightmare. In the end, though, little of this was true. And the whole idea of climate change was based on a lie: that weather and climate used to be nice. They weren’t. As for our own time, snow cover is increasing; summertime heating is negligible; hurricanes are diminishing; droughts and floods both used to be worse. The real nightmare is the politics suffusing modern climate science and the effects this is having on every resident of planet Earth. Don’t Sell Your Coat, besides bearing a suggestion for its readers, brings to the public the scientific argument that global cooling is as likely a scenario for the next few decades as any of the nightmares of Al Gore. It also allows non-scientists to enter the debate about climate change armed with facts and to have a sense of humor while they do so.

About this title

About the Author

Harold Ambler has been writing about weather and climate for the past 20 years. He has degrees in English from Dartmouth and Columbia and started his career in journalism at The New Yorker. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, The AtlanticWire, wattsupwiththat.com, The Providence Journal, Rhode Island Monthly, Brown Alumni Monthly, and elsewhere. He co-wrote and edited a history of rowing for Brown University, published in 2009. He lives in Rhode Island.

From the Back Cover

With the patience of a good detective, Ambler brings humor and historical perspective that have been sorely lacking to the climate-change debate. Is the recent warming of the Earth unprecedented? It is not. Is carbon dioxide a pollutant? It is not. Are skeptical scientists corrupt? They are not. Do we know that the Earth will warm for the next fifty years? We do not.

From the Inside Flap

"This is a beautiful book in many ways. First of all, in terms of attracting the attention of whoever may pick it up, it is beautifully laid out, typeset, and illustrated. You might well buy the Kindle version, but I'll bet you'll soon come to wish you had something more tangible for the coffee table. Second, it is extremely well written. Friendly, fluent, flowing prose, and although dealing with very contentious issues, civil and coherent throughout. Third, it provides candid glimpses into the life and the intellectual and political development of boy, youth, and grown man, one who is alive to the world of nature and to the world of ideas, and who thought on both deeply enough to shake off the left-wing conditioning all around him about climate change, and to think through his own thoughts and seek out data himself." - John Shade, writing at Climate Lessons

Edition details

• Publisher: Lansing International Books
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0615569048
• ISBN 13: 9780615569048
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272