JoNova
A freelance science presenter, writer, professional speaker & former TV host; author of The Skeptic's Handbook (over 200,000 copies distributed & available in ten languages).





Books

Jo's hands-on science activity book makes a great present. You can also help support this site (and skeptical scientists) through book purchases on Amazon. Click on the links below :-)
The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with "Climate Change" Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History?
Christopher Booker 

The Bad Science and Bad Policy of Obama's Global Warming Agenda, Roy Spencer, 2010, $5.99

The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science, A.W Montford

The Great Global Warming Blunder, Roy Spencer


Climatism, Steve Goreham, Just out! The full compendium: the science, the ideology, the UN, & the history.

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


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.


An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming, Nigel Lawson


Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming, Ian Wishart


Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know


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


December 5th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
This is entirely understandable. Japan does possess any of its own fossil fuel sources and must import all of it for domestic consumption. If cap-and-trade is implemented on a global scale, Japan might as well slap a price increase on everything in the country. I wonder why Lefties everywhere feel they need to jump off a cliff because the Lefties in the West says jump along with them.
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December 6th, 2009 at 12:26 am
It’s funny how the right loves to call climate change believers alarmists, etc but they still would have us believe all muslims want to kill us. Or all socialists want to make us poor. Double standards no? I think a cleaner planet for our children is a good thing. To write a blog such as this is at best misleading and at worse dangerous.
Put it this way, would rather live in a sustainable, clean, tidy and pleasant house or a rancid, disintegrating, messy and smelly one? Taking climate change denying to this extreme is just contrarism and nimby-ism on a worldwide scale. And it’s notable it’s older people like Joanna with nothing to lose but their comfortable retirements who shout against it the loudest.
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December 6th, 2009 at 1:05 am
“To write a blog such as this is at best misleading and at worse dangerous.”
If I’m scaring people who can’t reason, I know I’m achieving something. Thanks! High praise indeed.
Is it possible to be a global-nimby? Would that be a nomp – “not on my planet”? Could it make sense in any context?
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December 6th, 2009 at 1:41 am
“… older people like Joanna [sic]…” My goodness, how young would you have to be to think of Joanne as an older person close to retirement?
Obviously young enough to confuse climate change with pollution, and naive inexperienced enough to think that the planet is “rancid, disintegrating, messy and smelly”.
Been out of the CBD at all, jo?
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December 6th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
I would be happy to translate the handbook into Chinese (both simplified and traditional characters) in exchange for tips on how to best distribute it. Reply here, pls.
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December 8th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Good translation !
I had one of my Japanese friends look at it already.
He was impressed with the quality of the transaltion but disappointed to find out the truth.
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December 9th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
What is the URL for the Japanese translation?
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December 10th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Where is the download for Japanese translation??
Global Warming Hysteria in Japan is the “new religion and fashion” There are huge forces at work trying to educate and brainwash the Japanese public – its time they heard the truth – THANK YOU!!
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December 10th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Thanks guys, I’ve linked the Japanese pdf to the image in the post.
That link to download the handbook is here:
http://joannenova.com.au/globalwarming/translations/japanese/skeptics-handbook-japan-081909.pdf
Thanks for spreading the word.
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December 10th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
I’ve uploaded the URL to my blog and introduced this site as well.
http://mikerosstky.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!65DFD4754018BC2A!4627.trak
My blog tends to get on the first page on search done on Google Japan on issues on Global Warming.
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December 10th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
I forgot to add “Thanks!”
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December 10th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Thank you Mike. The public around the world will find out what’s going on.
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December 24th, 2009 at 10:05 am
A magnificent job!. A spanish translation needed of this global scam. In south american countries global warming/climate change is currently being promoted bu the Scotia Bank (Golman Sachs group).
There are other areas of science being anatemized, like Hans Alfven´s Plasma Universe; see:
http://www.holoscience.com/
http://www.electric-cosmos.org/sun.htm
http://www.plasma-universe.com/index.php/Plasma-Universe.com
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