Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media Review

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Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media ReviewIf you are interested in climatology read Meltdown. It's a short, easy read.
Whether you are a lifetime member of the Sierra Club or a lobbyist for the coal industry, Michaels' cites the same publicly available data used to support the myriad of negative global warming scenarios to dispel many popular beliefs.
Meltdown does not dismiss global warming, although it questions its severity and impact. Meltdown does question whether warming is due primarily to human activity or, more likely, to solar and other large-scale natural cycles that living things have adapted to many times before. The author does not dispute that human beings have influenced the environment, but does not believe we can affect global warming in any meaningful way by reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

Meltdown's overarching sidebar is about how good people (scientists) go astray when their careers (lives) depend on networks and hierarchies (the paradigmatic status quo) who influence purse strings controlled from places of power (primarily governments) indirectly through political pressure (me and you, the media, and environmentalist groups). The resulting feedback loop leads to prestigious journals awash in bad papers that mysteriously pass peer-review while good, less tabloidesque science is ignored. The resulting avalanche of false claims and hair-raising global warming scenarios strike fear into our hearts so that we donate to environmental groups and write elected representatives pleading for increased funding to study global warming.
Meltdown was published by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank often derided by the left for having been co-founded by Charles Koch, a self-made oilman, and supported by major US corporations (although 70% of their funding is from individuals). The problem with Cato as publisher is no so much the potential for bias (I think the author is very smart and believes what he is saying) but the lost opportunity for a better book. Since Cato is not a publishing company, the manuscript lacks the organization, clarity, and logical progression that a good editor would have brought to the project. For example, the professor often begins to build a thread then disappears forever into an aside (some of which were merciless and unrestrained non-PC lampoons that were, well, funny).
Once of my best advisors always recommended reading the New York Times in the morning and the Wall Street Journal at night. Climate change is too important to ignore either side in the debate.Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media Overview

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