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- Product code: 271075
- ISBN: 071563786X,
ISBN13: 9780715637869,
144 pages, hardback
Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd on 2008
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Description of An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming |
Lord Lawson argues the case for a fully-formed view of global warming – and against hysterical environmentalism.
In this well-informed and hard-hitting response to the scaremongering of the climate alarmists, Nigel Lawson, former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State for Energy, argues that it is time for us to take a cool look at global warming.
Lawson carefully and succinctly examines all aspects of the global warming issue: the science, the economics, the politics, and the ethics. He concludes that, contrary to the deeply-flawed Stern Review, the conventional wisdom on the subject is suspect on a number of grounds; that global warming is not the devastating threat to the planet it is widely alleged to be; and that the remedy that is currently being proposed, which is in any event politically unattainable, would be worse that the threat it is supposed to avert.
All this is argued with logic, commmon sense, and even wit, and thoroughly sourced and referenced. The book concludes by outlining the form a rational response to global warming should take, and explains why the mistaken conventional wisdom has become the quasi-religion it is today, and the dangers that this presents.
Lord Lawson has written a long overdue and much needed corrective to the barrage of spin and hype to which the politicians and media have been subjecting the public on this important issue, which affects us all.
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Reviews"His insights are keen and refreshingly iconoclastic ... [His] contrarian synthesis of political thinking and economic analysis is notably well argued and well written - and sure to raise the hackles of those on the other side of the issue"
- Publishers Weekly
"This brief and elegant book treats the science of global warming seriously, but convincingly shows that whatever view one has of the science, almost all proposed approaches to the putative problem are intellectually deficient, economically absurd and harmful, and morally misdirected at best"
- Richard S Lindzen, Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, MIT
"At last we have an independent hard-headed examination of the realities of global warming ... A wonderful, desperately necessary book; no one in authority should pronounce on global warming again until they have read it"
- Sir Antony Jay, author of Yes Minister & Yes, Prime Minister
| About Nigel Lawson |
Nigel Lawson, Lord Lawson of Blaby, after a number of years in journalism, including as Editor of The Spectator from 1966 to 1970, became a Conservative MP in 1974. He served in the Thatcher administration between 1979 and 1989 as Financial Secreatry to the Treasury, Secretary of State for Energy, and, from 1983, Chancellor of the Exchequer. He entered the House of Lords in 1992, and is a member of the Lords' Select Committee on Economic Affairs, which is 2005 produced a substantial report on 'The Economics of Climate Change'. He is past President of the British Institute of Energy Economics. He lives in London and France.
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