TWISTED: The Distorted Mathematics of Greenhouse Denial
This book analyses some of the ways in which the
so-called greenhouse sceptics distort the data to create
unjustified doubt about the reality of human-induced global warming.
Author Ian Enting presents series of examples in non-technical form,
highlighting the inconsistencies in the sceptics' arguments
and showing how the data have been distorted.
Finally, the book describes some new calculations showing the
emisssions that will be required to achieve various targets of stabilising
CO2 concentrations.
Publication and ordering
The Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute sponsored
the publication of TWISTED in 2007.
It is now distributed by Spellbound Interpretation (e-mail twisted.ige@gmail.com)
and available from selected bookstores.
Online by Ian Enting
Rogues or respectable?
How climate change sceptics spread doubt and denial was published
in The Conversaton on June 23, 2011. see
http://theconversation.edu.au/rogues-or-respectable-how-climate-change-sceptics-spread-doubt-and-denial-1557.
Analysis of the fabrication, misrepresentation, inconsistency
(and a bit of plagiarism) in Ian Plimer's book Heaven + Earth at
http://www.complex.org.au/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=91
Reading on pseudo-sceptics
- A particularly important book is
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of
Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway. Bloomsbury Press, 2010.
- See New Scientist, May 12, 2007.
About the author
Ian Enting is a professorial Fellow at the ARC Center of Excellence for Mathematics
and Statistics of Complex Systems. From 1980 to 2004 he was a research scientist at CSIRO
Atmospheric Research. He was one of the lead authors of the chapter
CO2 and the Carbon Cycle in the 1994 IPCC report on Radiative Forcing of Climate Change.
TWISTED: The Distorted Mathematics of Greenhouse Denial
is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Don Hutton, 1938-2007,
physicist, educator and environmentalist.
Disclaimer
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views, policies or opinions of The University of Melbourne.
Ian Enting: last change 9/7/11.