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Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media Hardcover - 2004

by Patrick J. Michaels

Summary

Why is news about global warming always bad? Why do scientists so often offer dire predictions about the future of the environment? In Meltdown, climatologist Patrick J. Michaels says it’s only natural. He argues that the way we do science today--when issues compete with each other for monopoly funding by the federal government--creates a culture of exaggeration and a political community that then takes credit for having saved us from certain doom.

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An eminently readable and often humorous critique, Meltdown documents hundreds of exaggerations from scientists, politicians and the media, and ties them together with the common thread of rational self-interest.

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  • Title Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media
  • Author Patrick J. Michaels
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition (N
  • Pages 271
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cato Institute, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
  • Date November 25, 2004
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781930865594 / 1930865597
  • Weight 1.31 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.32 x 6.36 x 1.11 in (23.67 x 16.15 x 2.82 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004057036
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.738

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Citations

  • Choice, 05/01/2005, Page 1628
  • Library Journal, 09/06/2004, Page 0
  • Scitech Book News, 12/01/2004, Page 53

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