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Climate, sea level, and ice sheets have always changed, and the
changes observed today are less than those of the past. Climate
changes are cyclical and are driven by the Earth's position in the
galaxy, the sun, wobbles in the Earth's orbit, ocean currents, and
plate tectonics. In previous times, atmospheric carbon dioxide was
far higher than at present but did not drive climate change. No
runaway greenhouse effect or acid oceans occurred during times of
excessively high carbon dioxide. During past glaciations, carbon
dioxide was higher than it is today. The non-scientific popular
political view is that humans change climate. Do we have reason for
concern about possible human-induced climate change? This book's
504 pages and over 2,300 references to peer-reviewed scientific
literature and other authoritative sources engagingly synthesize
what we know about the sun, earth, ice, water, and air.
Importantly, in a parallel to his 1994 book challenging "creation
science," Telling Lies for God, Ian Plimer describes Al Gore's book
and movie An Inconvenient Truth as long on scientific
"misrepresentations." "Trying to deal with these misrepresentations
is somewhat like trying to argue with creationists," he writes,
"who misquote, concoct evidence, quote out of context, ignore
contrary evidence, and create evidence ex nihilo."
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