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Missing Climate Headlines from May 2009

Undoubtedly the best summary of the current state of affairs is the SPPI monthly CO2 report. The April report contains news that—if there was a free and high quality media—would have generated headlines like these (well, sort of—you get the idea).
Any investigative journalist who was doing their job only had to Google for the other [...]

Manuel du Sceptique Climatique

Parlez Vouz Francais? The French version of The Skeptics Handbook is released! Send it to your friends who speak French; send it to your friends who don’t speak French but would like too, and send it to schools in the hope that students might learn logic and reason in their language classes, because they probably won’t learn it in science*.

Das Skeptiker-Handbuch has arrived!

Good news! The Skeptics Handbook has been translated into German and now you can email all your German speaking friends (or enemies ) with a link to this page or the German site it’s on.
It’s a first. Thanks to the power of the internet, and the passionate international resistance to propaganda in science, [...]

Shock: Global temperatures driven by US Postal Charges

The rise in global temperatures since 1880 closely correlates with increases in postal charges, sparking alarm that CO2 has been usurped as the main driver of climate change.
Ominously, US Post is set to raise the charges 2c to 44c on May 11, 2009. Postal Action Network (PAN) has already sprung into existence this afternoon and plans to produce a boycott campaign of the new 44c Homer Simpson stamps.

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The Chilling Stars, Henrik Svensmark & Nigel Calder. The puzzle pieces come together despite the resistance.

The Great Global Warming Blunder, Roy Spencer

Climatism, Steve Goreham

Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies That Hurt the Poor

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Fred Singer

Climategate The CRUTape Letters, Steven Mosher

The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud, And those who are too fearful to do so, Lawrence Solomon.

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science, Ian Plimer

The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with "Climate Change" Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History? Christopher Booker

CO2, Global Warming and Coral Reefs, Craig Idso. The science of CO2 and the oceans. It's an intense review with 23 pages of references. Many mythical fears debunked.

Red Hot Lies, Christopher Horner

The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About--Because They Helped Cause Them, Iain Murray

Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them, Steven Milloy

Eat the Rich, PJ O Rourke. It's old, but it's one of the funniest books I ever read. Sure beats learning economics from text-books.

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (Paperback), Amity Shlaes. Economic and political history, well told.

The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy. Ahead of it's time in 1995, if you haven't read Thomas Sowell, it's a good place to start.

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve (Paperback), G Edward Griffin. Possibly the most chilling book I ever read.

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