Twisted: The Distorted Mathematics of Greenhouse Denial
Summary
This book, by Ian Enting, 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.
A series of examples are presented in non-technical form,
highlighting the inconsistencies in the sceptics' arguments
and showing how the data have been distorted.
Finally, the book presents some new calculations showing the
emisssions that will be required to achieve various targets of stabilising
CO2 concentrations.
(Extracts).
More twisting
Some more instances of greenhouse denial, too recent to have been included
in the book
More on sceptics
- See New Scientist, May 12, 2007.
More on emission reductions
- See Ian Enting's submission to PM's Task Group on Emissions Trading,
avaliable from
Task Group Website.
More about the book
This book is dedicated to the memory of Don Hutton, 1938-2007.
Publication and ordering
Published September 2007. Available from selected bookstores, or
order online through
Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI)
who sponsored the publication.
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.
Disclaimer
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