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sidney powell
dallas corp
pr bs
Brown Books Publishing Group has been named to Publishers Weekly’s prestigious list of “Fast-Growing Independent Publishers 2018.” Criteria for inclusion is a result of sales growth, number of titles, and overall revenue, and Brown Books enters the list at #2 (based on data from 2015-2017).
Brown Books opened its doors in 1994, and was the first hybrid publisher, a business model now recognized by the Independent Book Publishers Association as a traditional publishing company in all respects except the authors own the rights to their titles and receive a higher-than-industry-standard share of sales proceeds.
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Publisher : Independently published
the Climate Change Hoax Argument: the history and science that expose a major international deception Paperback – April 11, 2021
by C. Paul Smith (Author)
many people believe that a consensus of scientists agree that humans are causing climate change that will cause catastrophic damage to the planet if we do not immediately enact numerous laws and practices to stop it. But those who believe insist that settled science has proved it, and they refuse to debate it, and they cannot explain scientific reasons to support it. In fact. The science does not support it—not the “human-caused” part, not the catastrophic damage part, and especially not the assertion that most scientists agree with it. The claim that humans are causing catastrophic climate change is a hoax.
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I have overlooked the moderating / gate-keeping of book and magazine publishers; but merger mania led to media consolidation, deadly to journalism, presiably also affect book co which become part of the media conglomerate. Moreover, presumably synergy in that the same content can be put on several platform and different media.
Preseumably as solomon does anthology of columns get bundled into a book, and more than a few denial books (often from vanity press) are anthologies (maybe some log-rolling, and each guy uses netowrk to get blurbs?)
But a book still has cachet/cred that almost noting else does? Plus it gets reviwed (this endorsed, but also a summary is posted and reposted, so no one actually has to read the thing; books also give cred for spker bureau (ideally bd of dir gig, tho i have not seen one for co, just bogus NGO).
Amazon rankings five instant automagic and seeming irrefutable statistical evidence (tho ur TP bus tour to train activists to trash Amazon ratings of lefty books;
amazing that Geo Gilder wrote Amazon rev, praised Richard Vigilante co.
A book also validates book tour, interviews on TV and radio shows, presumably desperate for fodder;
plus a book author is better than mere bloviator/pundit?
Conservatve book clubs? virtual?
But now books can be self-published, and kindle/ereader is losing negative rep? Note amazon has button to vote for ereader version. But self-publ means no fact checker.
Steyn has a virtual publishing house? // Richard Vigilante unfer R Littlefield? Big boks corps already had in-house imprints as Rush and Beck big sellers (and Al Franken, Moore?]
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He authored a book in 2008 titled The Deniers: The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud based on a series of articles he wrote for the National Post.
Solomon is a founder and managing director of Energy Probe Research Foundation and the executive director of its Energy Probe and Urban Renaissance Institute divisions. [1]
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dead wrong
For years, the government has put out hits on people that they found “expendable,” or who they felt were “talking too much,” covering up their assassinations with drug overdoses and mysterious suicides. In Dead Wrong, a study of the scientific and forensic facts of various Government cover-ups, Richard Belzer and David Wayne argue that Marilyn Monroe was murdered, that the person who shot Martin Luther King Jr. was ordered to do so by the government, and examines many other terrifying lies we've been told throughout our country’s history. The extensive research shows how our government has taken matters into its own hands, plotting murder whenever it saw fit.
Belzer and Wayne also examine the deaths of White House Counsel Vincent Foster, U.N. Weapons Inspector Dr. David C. Kelly, and bio-weapons expert Dr. Frank Olson, as well as the cases of two murders directly linked Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th President of the United States.
“Big Brother” is watching you—through the scope of a sniper rifle.Dead Wrong will give you the straight facts on some of the most controversial and famous deaths this country has ever seen. The harsh reality is that our government only tells us what we want to hear, as they look out for their own best interests and eliminate anyone who gets in their way.
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No More Gangs in Government
Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell
(Skyhorse Publishing) DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans uncovers the truth about how corporations have bought the American electoral and legislative process through the power of lobbyists, campaign contributions and political action committees. Covering historical details such as the development of the two-party system and the
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FROM STEYN
seems to have a hybrid: stockade is a virtual publishing house?
conglomerate: ajpromo is a sphr bureau (all interlock, all about promotion)
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http://www.conservativebookclub.com/publisher/stockade-books
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Stockade:
1.) A Song For The Season
Mark Steyn
2008 [hardback] [English]
book2.) Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech And The Twilight Of The West
Mark Steyn
2009 [hardback] [English]
book3.) Mark Steyn From Head To Toe
Mark Steyn
2004 [paperback] [English]
book4.) Mark Steyn's American Songbook
Mark Steyn
2008 [hardback]
book5.) Mark Steyn's Passing Parade
Mark Steyn
2006 [paperback]
book6.) The Face of the Tiger
Mark Steyn
2002 [paperback]
book7.) »A Disgrace to the Profession«
Mark Steyn (editor), Josh (Illustrator/-in), Mark Steyn (Eds.)
2015 [First edition, paperback] [English]
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2009 stockade
https://www.amazon.com/Lights-Out-Islam-Speech-Twilight/dp/0973157054/
also regn
https://www.amazon.com/After-America-Get-Ready-Armageddon/dp/1596983272/
regnery
https://www.amazon.com/Undocumented-Mark-Steyn/dp/1621573184/
Here you'll find the familiar Steyn themes: the fiscal horror that looms for the Brokest Nation in History, the existential threat of Islamic extremism, the metastasizing tyranny of political correctness, and the west's demographic suicide - "all the fun stuff," delivered in his signature laugh-a-minute apocalyptic doom-mongering style...
Explains why it matters which culture dominates your country
Exposes "the near suicidal stupidity of America's immigration regime"
Shows why you can't have a conservative government in a liberal culture
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As 1973 Nobel Prize winner Professor Ivar Giaever said “Global Warming has become a new religion – because you can’t discuss it and that is not right.”
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Editorial Reviews
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I recommend Steyn's book highly, because it really gets to the heart of the matter about that lack of scientific rigor in climate science that has become a poster child for noble cause corruption . - Anthony Watts --Watts Up With That
At a time when the U.S. and the world's nations are trying to put together an agreement to tackle climate change (for better or for worse), Steyn's book reminds everyone of Climategate, why the public doesn't trust climate scientists and aren't buying their "consensus". - Judith Curry --Climate Etc.
It's probably the longest, funniest, most savvily organized and meticulous "screw you" in the history of Western literature. - Laura Rosen Cohen--endofyourarm.com
About the Author
Editor Mark Steyn is the author of the international bestsellers America Alone and After America, and a contributor to therecent Number One bestseller on Amazon's Climatology Hit Parade, Climate Change: The Facts.His latest CD is Goldfinger.
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"A Disgrace to the Profession" by Mark Steyn (editor) Paperback $15.98
Climate Change: The Facts by J.Abbot Paperback $15.89
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http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2015/02/science-deniers-try-to-change-facts.html
Science deniers try to change the facts about climate
Sou | 10:43 PM
Anthony Watts has finally written a promo for a book put out last month by the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) (archived here). The book is called, somewhat ambiguously: Climate Change the Facts 2014. Given the publisher and the contributors, the meaning is pretty obvious: Climate - change the facts - 2014.
The IPA is one of the few right wing lobby groups in Australia that campaigns for action to increase global warming and climate change. It tends to be pro-fossil fuel and anti-mitigation of global warming. It panders to right wing science deniers. Although influential in some quarters, when it comes to climate, the IPA gets short shrift by most thinking people in this country. We Australians don't particularly want hotter temperatures, worse droughts, more catastrophic fires or bigger badder floods. Our climate already has more than enough of all that.
This new book looks like it's a follow-up to a2010 publication, which included chapters by such luminaries (in the fake sceptic world) as Richard Tol, Nigel Lawson, Christopher Monckton, Willie Soon and Ian Plimer. I don't know if anyone read that book. This time the IPA has given their book more publicity, right underneath a plea to support alleged defamer Mark Steyn. Mark Steyn is heading for a tour down under, possibly fighting to extend freedom of speech beyond the acceptable, to embrace the right to defame, if histrack record is anything to go by.
Will this latest version of "change the facts" get more readers than the IPA's first (freebie) book did? Maybe by charging for it this time around the IPA will get greater exposure and commitment from deniers.
Given that Anthony Watts wrote a chapter I was wondering why he waited so long to boast about it. The book came out a month or so back. Turns out Anthony was waiting till the book was available on Kindle. That's the only way he's getting any payment for his contribution, according to him. (He doesn't say what his chapter is about. Russian steampipes? Insects?)
The IPA scoured the world for the more prominent climate science deniers and mixed them up with some less prominent and more wacky ones. The editor, Alan Moran, managed to get entries from the following:
- Ian "iron sun" Plimer who has been fairly quiet since his heaven and earth fiasco (I sometimes wonder who really wrote that book)
- Patrick J Michaels - one half of Pat'n Chip from CATO, who argue that global warming will be okay because we can just buy air conditioners
- Richard Lindzen of the flawed iris hypothesis, who spends time these daystalking climate science denial to anyone who'll listen
- Willie Soon who has had to resort to lending his name to a paper by the potty peer Christopher Monckton and the ratbag William M Briggs and scrounging funds from the Heartland Institute to publish some nonsense in a little known Chinese journal (not a climate science journal)
- Robert M Carter - an Australian who retired from his job as an academic to take up science denial for the Heartland Institute and related organisations. He's recently "come out" as an ice age comether.
- John Abbott, who I've never heard of
- Jennifer Marohasy, a denier from Australia who makes silly accusations about the Australian Bureau of Meteorology when she's not campaigning against the environment in general
- Nigel Lawson, an ex-public servant, who now heads up an anti-mitigation, pro-global warming lobby group in the UK appropriately named the Global Warming Policy Foundation
- Alan Moran who works for the IPA (he, like Patrick Michaels, is just doing what he's paid to do)
- James Delingpole, a sensationalist blogger, who doesn't do science an
as an "interpreter of interpretations" - Garth Paltridge, an ex-climate scientist turned global warming campaigner
- Joanne Nova, the pseudonym of Australian Jo Codling, an ex-children's television entertainer turned climate science denier who, with her partner the rocket scientist from Luna Park, promotes Force X and the Notch
- Kesten Green and Scott Armstrong, who write very dumb papers claiming that the world isn't really warming or if it is it's "natural"
- Rupert Darwall, who I've never heard of
- Ross McKitrick, an economics professor who keeps trying and failing to prove there aren't any hockey sticks in the world, or something
- Donna Laframboise, who thinks that no scientist should be paid any mind if they write or achieve anything while they are younger than 40 - presumably including Marie Curie, Louis Pasteur, Ernest Rutherford, or any of hundreds of other scientists who did some of their most amazing work when they were young - often before they received their higher degrees. (She wrote another "book" putting her instructions on the cover.)
- Mark Steyn, a sensationalist blogger/hack, who speaks of climate scientists with allusions to child molesters and is being sued for defamation
- Christopher Essex, about whom I know little except that he seems to be a one man organisation that grandly calls himself the "World Federation of Scientists" and moves and seconds motions decrying climate science then carries these motions himself
- Bernard Lewin, another person I've never heard of
- Stewart Franks, an engineering academic from Australia who belongs to the same anti-environment organisations as Jennifer Marohasy (above)
- Anthony Watts, an american who runs a blog for science deniers and conspiracy theorists and who wonders if global warming is being caused byRussian steam pipes
- Andrew Bolt, an Australian blogger who got his own television segment here. Similar to James Delingpole in that (so I've been told) he prides himself on his ignorance, confusing ignorance with independence. His tone and language is usually a tad milder than James, but the sentiment is the same.
What a ragtag bunch. According to RenewEconomy last year, the book was to have beenmailed out hither, thither and yon for free. (I've yet to receive my free copy.) People who aren't important enough to get a free copy and want to lap up nonsense like this have to pay for it. You'll have to cough up $AUD24.95 for a hard copy. You can pick up the Kindle version for a mere $US9.95.
I first wrote about this early last year when it was revealed that Australian taxpayers are helping to subsidise the book. (The IPA is registered as a non-profit organisation, therefore tax exempt. Also, donations to it are tax-deductible. This equates to a subsidy by Australian taxpayers. To rub salt in the wound, the IPA has over many years used the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as its freeby publisher. More subsidisation from Australian taxpayers.)
Anyone who was dumb enough to donate $400 or more would get their name emblazoned for all to see on the back cover. So if anyone has donated more than $400 to get this silly little book published, feel free to let me know and I'll give you some more free publicity :)
From the WUWT comments
Quite a few commenters at WUWT are well aware that this book won't go anywhere. That most of the people who'll buy it are science deniers who want to have their wishes "confirmed" by other science deniers. John Francis wrote:
Excellent book. I read it as soon as I got it on Kindle. If only the general public read it!
jon sutton seems to think the only way to get it out there is to give it away for free.
I reckon this should be freely distributed……………… like the Gideon Bible :-))
Tom J likes the writing style of deniers:
Is it just me? Is it just my biases? But it seems to me, just looking at that list of authors, that members of the skeptic community (gawd, how I hate that tribal generalization – but it is convenient) are hell’s bells better writers, and possess far better senses of humor (actually ‘better’ is an inaccurate term when the comparison is to, well … nothing) than the dour, self righteous, nose-in-the-air, humorless, screeds who populate the CAGW opportunistic industrial complex. I’ve enjoyed the clever humor of Michaels, the smoothness of McKitrick, and the others, and then, there’s … Mark Steyn.
pauline young doesn't think the freebies sent to Australian politicians had any impact:
A copy was sent to every member of the federal government in Australia….. sadly I don’t think it has had much impact.
George McFly......I'm your density liked it so much he read it out loud to his poor wife.
Great book Anthony. I got a copy a few weeks ago and have read it already, some chapters twice! One section I read out aloud to my wife….seriously clever and funny. Worth every cent
Phlogiston is missing someone
Where is Matt Ridley?
JDN notices the ambiguity of the title:
The alarmistas are always saying the skeptics want to “change the facts”, now it’s the title of their new book. Maybe you can hire an editor who knows how a ‘:’ is used.
Climate Change: The Facts
by J.Abbot(Author), J.S. Armstrong (Author), A.Bolt (Author), R.Carter (Author), R.Darwall (Author), J.Delingpole (Author), C.Essex (Author), S.Franks (Author), K.Green (Author), D.Laframboise (Author), N.Lawson (Author), B.Lewin (Author), R.Lindzen (Author), J.Marohasy (Author), R.McKitrick (Author), P.Michaels (Author), A.Moran (Author), J.Nova (Author), G.Paltridge (Author), I.Plimer (Author), W.Soon (Author), M.Steyn (Author), A.Watts (Author), Alan Moran (Editor)
An excellent new book --Barbara Kay, The National Post (Canada)
A fascinating new book --Matt Ridley, Quadrant (Australia)
A great gift for any friend with an open mind who enjoys a good read --Jay Lehr, PhD, The Heartlander
About the Author
The authors of Climate Change: The Facts number some of the most prominent dissenters from Big Climate alarmism, including scientists Richard S Lindzen and Willie Soon, recently targeted by grandstanding congressmen seeking to get them fired from their jobs; Nigel Lawson, Britain's former Chancellor of the Exchequer; Ross McKitrick, whose analysis inflicted irreparable damage on the famous global-warming "hockey stick"; and Mark Steyn, currently being sued by the creator of the self-same hockey stick, Michael E Mann, in a landmark free-speech case. Plus John Abbot & Jennifer Marohasy, Andrew Bolt, Robert M Carter, Rupert Darwall, James Delingpole, Christopher Essex, Stewart W Franks, Kesten C Green & J Scott Armstrong, Donna Laframboise, Bernie Lewin, Patrick J Michaels, Joanne Nova, Garth W Paltridge, Ian Plimer and Anthony Watts
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Stockade Books; First edition (April 21, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0986398306
ISBN-13: 978-0986398308
Stockade Books and The Institute of Public Affairsare proud to publish Climate Change: The Facts, featuring essays on the science, politics and economics of the climate change debate. Climate Change: The Facts features the world's leading experts and commentators on climate change. Highlights of Climate Change: The Facts include:
Ian Plimer draws on the geological record to dismiss the possibility that human emissions of carbon dioxide will lead to catastrophic consequences for the planet. Patrick Michaels demonstrates the growing chasm between the predictions of the IPCC and the real world temperature results. Richard Lindzen shows the climate is less sensitive to increases in greenhouse gases than previously thought and argues that a warmer world would have a similar weather variability to today. Willie Soon discusses the often unremarked role of the sun in climate variability. Robert Carter explains why the natural variability of the climate is far greater than any human component. John Abbot and Jennifer Marohasy demonstrate how little success climate models have in predicting important information such as rainfall.
Nigel Lawson warns of the dire economic consequences of abandoning the use of fossil fuels. Alan Moran compares the considerable costs of taking action compared to the relatively minor potential benefits of doing so. James Delingpole looks at the academic qualifications of the leading proponents of catastrophic climate change and finds many lack the credentials of so-called 'sceptics'. Garth Paltridge says science itself will be damaged by the failure of climate forecasts to eventuate. Jo Nova chronicles the extraordinary sums of public money awarded to climate change activists, in contrast to those who question their alarmist warnings. Kesten Green and Scott Armstrong compare climate change alarmism to previous scares raised over the past 200 years. Rupert Darwall explains why an international, legally binding climate agreement has extremely minimal chances of success. Ross McKitrick reviews the 'hockey stick' controversy and what it reveals about the state of climate science.
Donna Laframboise explains how activists have taken charge of the IPCC. Mark Steyn recounts the embarrassing 'Ship of Fools' expedition to Antarctica. Christopher Essex argues the climate system is far more complex than it has been presented and there is much that we still don't know. Bernie Lewin examines how climate change science came to be politicised. Stewart Franks lists all the unexpected developments in climate science that were not foreseen. Anthony Watts highlights the failure of the world to warm over the past 18 years, contrary to the predictions of the IPCC. Andrew Bolt reviews the litany of failed forecasts by climate change activists.
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Global Warming-Alarmists, Skeptics and Deniers: A Geoscientist Looks at the Science of Climate Change
G. Dedrick Robinson
Global Warming-Alarmists, Skeptics & Deniers: A Geoscientist looks at the Science of Climate Change, brings a unique geological perspective to this politically charged issue, a perspective that has been ignored far too long.Written by a father-son team of geoscientist and attorney,it is the concise guide to the global warming controversy that has been long needed. As a university professor and research geologist for thirty years, Dr. Robinson knows that geological science is essential for placing the global warming controversy in proper prospective. One cannot hope to understand how humans might be causing climate change without an understanding of the magnitude and speed natural processed are capable of when it comes to climate change. Earth history is the only yardstick we have to determine whether recent climate change is unusual or not. Yet, inexplicably, a vast repository of geologic data has been ignored in this contentious issue. Global Warming: Alarmists, Skeptics and Deniers was written to correct this oversight.
This book has been years in the making. It follows the outline Dr. Robinson used successfully for many years in a college classes taken by large numbers of students. Using an easy-to-understand question and answer format, the fourteen chapters of the book cover systematically all the major scientific issues of global warming. With more than three hundred references to peer-reviewed science journal articles and numerous illustrations, it shows how the scientific underpinnings of the global warming theory are actually weak and uncertain
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Dr. Robinson is the author of numerous scientific articles in national and international journals. His background in teaching a wide variety of geology courses has shown him how to present difficult scientific concepts in a way that is understandable and interesting to non-scientists. He has chaired sessions at scientific conferences, led seminars for science teachers, served as the head at two different college geology departments and was interviewed on a television network. His co-author and son, an attorney experienced in argumentative rhetoric, has helped him hone in on the erroneously based assumptions underlying activists' arguments. He has also served as a sounding board for areas where the writing, intended for a general audience, needed to be less technical. Together, this unique father-son team present a well thought out and fully documented discussion of the global warming theory without impugning anyone's sincerity, motives or personal integrity. Global Warming: Alarmists, Skeptics and Deniers covers the science of global warming, but unlike many other books, not the politics.
--published novels:"The Seventh Deception-A Novel of the Nazi Atomic Bomb"; "The Last Lion of Sparta"; and "Blood Scourge-Is the end of human kind finally at hand?" He is also the author of the non-fiction book "Global Warming-Alarmists, Skeptics & Deniers: A Geoscientist Looks at the Science of Climate Change."
His writings, including science articles, adventure articles, car articles and short fiction, have appeared in such varied formats as professional science journals, newspapers, literary journals and history journals.
Dr. Robinson has started a new venture, Moonshine Cove Publishing, LLC, to publish both fiction and nonfiction
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Excellent analysis of climate science from a veteran geologist's perspective. Dr. Robinson's discussions of climate models and past climate change are particularly useful. There is much more science, enough to persuade all but die-hard alarmists that a skeptical position better fits the evidence.--Paul MacRae, author of False Alarm--Global Warming
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The "hockey stick" graph of global temperatures is the single most influential icon in the global-warming debate, promoted by the UN's transnational climate bureaucracy, featured in Al Gore's Oscar-winning movie, used by governments around the world to sell the Kyoto Accord to their citizens, and shown to impressionable schoolchildren from kindergarten to graduation.
And yet what it purports to "prove" is disputed and denied by many of the world's most eminent scientists. In this riveting book, Mark Steyn has compiled the thoughts of the world's scientists, in their own words, on hockey-stick creator Michael E Mann, his stick and their damage to science. From Canada to Finland, Scotland to China, Belgium to New Zealand, from venerable Nobel Laureates to energetic young researchers on all sides of the debate analyze the hockey stock and the wider climate wars it helped launch.
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He is the author of After America, a Top Five bestseller in the United States and a Number One bestseller in Canada; America Alone: The End Of The World As We Know It, a New York Times bestseller in the United States and a Number One bestseller in Canada; and his most recent book, The [Un]documented Mark Steyn. He is a co-author of Climate Change: The Facts a #1 bestselling book on Amazon's Climatology and Environment charts. His new book "A Disgrace To The Profession" is set to release in September 2015.
"A Marshmallow World", his Christmas single with Jessica Martin, reached Number Seven on Amazon's easy listening bestsellers, and Number 41 on their main pop chart.
disgrace:
Stockade Books; First edition (September 1, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0986398330
ISBN-13: 978-0986398339
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Dr. Tim Ball exposes the malicious misuse of climate science as it was distorted by dishonest brokers to advance the political aspirations of the progressive left. 4.5 syars
https://www.amazon.com/**Deliberate-Corruption-Climate-Science**/dp/0988877740/
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Mark Steyn’s recent A Disgrace to the Profession attacks Michael E. Mann’s hockey stick graph of global warming — a reconstruction of Earth’s temperatures over the past millennium that depicts a sharp uptick over the past 150 years. It is less of a book than it is a collection of quotes from respected and accredited researchers, all disparaging Mann as a scientist and, often, as a person.
Steyn’s main argument is that Mann did a great disservice to science when he used flawed data to create a graph that “proved” his argument about Earth’s rising temperatures. Steyn does not deny climate change, nor does he deny its anthropogenic causes. His issue, as he puts it, is with the shaft of the hockey stick, not the blade. His outrage lies not only in the use of poor data, but in Mann’s deletion of data in ignoring major historical climate shifts such as the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm Period.
Mark Steyn is a best-selling conservative political commentator who has written previously on climate change. Image courtesy of Wikimedia.
Mark Steyn is a best-selling conservative political commentator who has written previously on climate change. Image courtesy of Wikimedia.
To Steyn, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and all those who supported the hockey stick graph also did a disservice to science by politicizing climate change to the extent that it gives validity to deniers. However, Steyn may be giving these doubters yet more ammo, because he has done nothing to de-politicize the issue. Steyn claims that Mann has drawn his battle lines wrong — but then, so has Steyn, by attacking Mann instead of focusing on the false science.
Steyn’s writing style is broadly appealing, but his humor, initially reminiscent of XKCD, underestimates his audience. His colloquial tone could be seen as a satirical take on what Steyn refers to as Mann’s “cartoon climatology,” but it eventually subverts his argument by driving the same points over and over while never fully delving into scientific details. Although Steyn champions a nuanced view of climate science, his own nuance only goes so far as to tell his readers that they should be less certain, because meteorology and climate science are uncertain.
“The only constant about climate is change,” Steyn points out, advocating for us to better understand climate (which not enough people advocate, actually) and to adapt to changes as they come. It is a point that deserves more attention than it gets in the book. A Disgrace to the Profession is an entertaining read that sounds like a blogger’s rant. Steyn makes few points
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Styles Bitchley
Styles Bitchley
November 6, 14:27
Steyn wrote A Disgrace the the Profession The world’s scientists on Mann, his hockey stick, and their damage to science because Mann is suing Steyn for a blog at National Review where Steyn called the hockey stick a fraud.
Instead of proving Steyn wrong on the facts, Mann has decided to shut Steyn up with legal action. The book is volume one of the compilation of “science”‘s opinion of Dr Mann’s science. This is the evidence for the trial thus Steyn drives the point home.
Steyn has counter sued Mann and the trials remain tied up in the DC court system. With the facts in this book, I’d bet Mann is hopeful the delays continue.
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Schlongtavious
Schlongtavious
November 6, 20:33
Styles is right. Steyn is putting the hammer to Mann and his fraud.
Steyn is quite conversant on the other myriad of frauds being produced by the climate change industry, but this book has a very targeted purpose.
Also, Steyn’s humor appeals to his audience. It doesn’t underestimate them.
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Dave Conley
Dave Conley
November 9, 06:35
What is striking about Ms. Ho’s review is her omission of the book’s subtitle and defining approach: “The World’s Scientists – in their Own Words – on Michael E Mann, his Hockey Stick, and their Damage to Science.” These are highly decorated scientists — lots of them — being scrupulously quoted as they criticize Michael Mann’s hockey stick, with Steyn taking pains to stay out of the way except for a quick intro. So if you are inclined to dismiss the book as a layman’s polemic, it could be worth your while to look at it more closely as a work of genuine scientific interest.
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db
db
February 13, 10:21
All that is needed to know is that Mann and Jones refused to allow their data to be reviewed. They even destroyed data (evidence?). The hockey team cannot explain that away.
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"A Disgrace To The Profession"
The World's Scientists, In Their Own Words, On Michael E Mann, His Hockey Stick And Their Damage To Science
Volume I
Compiled and edited by Mark Steyn, with illustrations by Josh
Do I expect you to publicly denounce the hockey stick as obvious drivel? Well, yes.
Jonathan Jones, Professor of Atomic and Laser Physics, University of Oxford
Michael Mann, Phil Jones and Stefan Rahmstorf should be barred ...because the scientific assessments in which they may take part are not credible anymore.
Eduardo Zorita, Senior Scientist at Germany's Institute for Coastal Research
Did Mann et al get it wrong? Yes, Mann et al got it wrong.
Simon Tett, Professor of Climate Science, University of Edinburgh
The defamation suit against Steyn by Michael E Mann, inventor of the global-warming "hockey stick", is about to enter its fourth year at the DC Superior Court - which means Mark has a lot of case research lying around and he can't wait forever for the trial to start. So he figured he'd put some of it in a new book, now available from SteynOnline.
In the fall of 2014, not a single amicus brief was filed on Dr Mann's behalf, not one. He claims he's "taking a stand for science", but evidently science is disinclined to take a stand for him.
That got Mark curious as to what actual scientists think of Mann, his famous hockey stick, and his other work. So he started looking - and the result is a rollicking collection of insights into Big Climate's chief enforcer by scientists from around the world, from Harvard to Helsinki, Prague to Princeton, with commentary from Steyn telling the story of the rise to global celebrity of one Mann and his stick.
Advance praise for Steyn's new book!
"Most people would refrain from adding fuel to the fire if being sued by someone for attacking them. Steyn, however, is not most people."
Daily Kos
"I’m thinking this is not going to be a very big book. Certainly not a very good one."
Greg Mann-Laden, Science Blogs
"Mark Steyn's genius legal gambit... Who’s to say what’s right or wrong, when your IQ could easily be the losing team’s score in a baseball game?"
Barry Bickmore, Climate Asylum
"A Disgrace To The Profession": The World's Scientists In Their Own Words On Michael E Mann, His Hockey Stick, And Their Damage To Science - Volume I will be available in print and eBook from Amazon and all the usual outlets this September, but you can make sure you're the first on your block with this must-read book by ordering your copy now exclusively from the SteynOnline bookstore for immediate shipping. And as always Mark will be happy to autograph it personally for you or your warm-mongering loved one.
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Trial of the Century Update!
"When Mark Steyn Struck Back"
Steyn vs the Big Climate Enforcers
Last Stand of the Old White Males
A Great Statue, a Third-Rate Poem
http://www.steynonline.com/section/71/defend-free-speech
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