HEAVEN AND EARTH
Global warming: the missing science
Ian Plimer

Climate has always changed. It always has and it always will. Ian Plimer offers compelling evidence that our fear of global warming derives from politics and dogma rather than scientific proof. Climate change politics, argues Ian Plimer, is religious fundamentalism masquerading as science. It panders to the zeitgeist while suppressing information that challenges this popular belief system.

The hypothesis that humans can change the climate is unsupported by evidence from geology, archaeology, history and astronomy. Co2 levels have been higher in the earth’s history without driving climate change and present atmospheric Co2 is, in fact, at its lowest for 500 million years. Far from being cause for alarm, the changes observed today are less than those of the past.

We are certainly facing a global threat, argues Professor Plimer, but it is not the threat of global warming: it is the policy responses to perceived global warming and the demonising of those who dissent.

"This is a very powerful, clear, understandable and extremely useful book. Ian Plimer fully exploits his unique scientific background in geology, his life-long academic experience, and his broad, truly interdisciplinary knowledge to dismantle the currently popular, politically correct but rationally untenable and indefensible position that the Earth is approaching catastrophic climate change and that we have to react – at all costs – to prevent it."
VACLAV KLAUS, PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, 2009