Black & White: Politically Incorrect Essays on Politics, Culture, Science, Religion, Energy, and Environment - Softcover

Deming, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1467919861 ISBN 13: 9781467919869

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011

Synopsis

In this collection of incisive essays, geologist and historian David Deming demonstrates why he is often controversial and always politically incorrect. According to Deming, the world is not running out of oil and the age of fossil fuels has just begun. Deming explains why he denies global warming, why science is never settled, and why we should be worried about the next Ice Age. He explains why Malthus was wrong, documents the environmental movement's preoccupation with hysterical fear-mongering, exposes light-bulb lunacy, and debunks the myth of the noble savage. Deming's topics range from academic freedom, to comparisons of religions, diets, and theories of evolution. You may not agree with Deming, but his perspicacious observations always make fascinating reading.

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About the Author

David Deming (b. 1954) is associate professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. He graduated from Indiana University in 1983 with a BS degree in geology, and received a Ph.D in geophysics from the University of Utah in 1988. Prior to his arrival at the University of Oklahoma in 1992, Deming held a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at the US Geological Survey in California. From 1992 through 2005, Dr. Deming was an assistant and associate professor in the School of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Oklahoma. Deming is an adjunct faculty member at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs and the National Center for Policy Analysis. Dr. Deming has contributed more than forty peer-reviewed research papers to the scientific literature. He is the author of a textbook on hydrogeology, Introduction to Hydrogeology (2002), and a trilogy on the history of science, Science and Technology in World History, Volumes 1, 2, and 3.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1467919861
• ISBN 13: 9781467919869
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 148