The Climate Caper by Garth W. Paltridge
Mon, 14/12/2009 - 05:57
The Climate Caper by Garth W. Paltridge
I found this book after searching for books by the now very well known Lord Monckton.
I found this one, which is not written by him, but is described as "With a Foreword by Christopher Walter Monckton".
The author is described thus:
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Emeritus Professor Garth Paltridge is an atmospheric physicist and was a Chief Research Scientist with the CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research, before taking up positions in Tasmania as Director of the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies and CEO of the Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre.
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He retired in 2002 and continues to live in Hobart.
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He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Tasmania and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University. He is best known internationally for work on atmospheric radiation and the theoretical basis of climate, and is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
So he knows a bit about this stuff, but also now that he is retired, he can say exactly what he likes with no fear of getting sacked. So I suspect, he has said exactly what he wants to say, as the book was published in August 31, 2009.
Here's the book:
NZ$29.95: US: UK:
There is only one detailed writeup, which started like this:
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This is a reasonably short work, very different from Ian Plimer's Heaven and Earth. Although Paltridge is an atmospheric physicist and erstwhile Chief Research Scientist with Australia's CSIRO, he has put together an accessible summary of some of the damning evidence against the global warming alarmism.
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Paltridge has an interesting style. He writes in a quiet, understated tone, whilst making fatal attacks on the warming doctrine. From the very brief overview of the IPCC process (with the recommendation committee charging ahead before the scientific committees had had time to collect any avidence or make any findings), he proceeds to a layman's introduction to some physics. His main message here is how much is still unknown about climate processes. In this I disagree with his presentation, because some basic 'outer envelope' considerations do show, in my opinion, how extremely unlikely the IPCC's forecasts really are.
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He moves on to some economics questions, and here he is devastating, but in his usual understated style.
If anyone has read this, or reads it, I'd be very pleased to hear what you thought. My email is in my signature if you just want to email me your thoughts.
Sun, 03/01/2010 - 02:34
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A good review
The Climate Caper
by John Izzard
July 26, 2009
http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/qed/2009/07/the-climate-caper-2
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In his new book, The Climate Caper, Garth Paltridge joins the growing band of eminent scientists and rational thinkers who are challenging the runaway theory of human induced Global Warming. Like the Wendy’s hamburger TV commercial from the USA — they are exclaiming of the science, “where’s the beef”.Unfortunately, Global Warming scientists who want to find simple explanations for complicated questions about The Meaning of Life, are behaving more like Monty Python performers than men and women of science.
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It is worth quoting further from Lord Monckton’s introduction to The Climate Caper — without giving away any of the juicy contents of Garth Paltridge’s book.Quote:
Gone is the academic freedom to open every door of enquiry, to follow every dream, to hold an opinion — how ever contentious — as long as that opinion springs from the tireless, careful, diligent iterative process of hypothesis, investigation, measurement and testing, testing, testing …As Dr. Paltridge puts it:
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Most scientists simply cannot believe that their colleagues would deliberately oversell a scientific conclusion for the benefit of a political cause. Dishonesty of that nature would fly in the face of everything that the rather idealistic typical scientist has been taught about his profession.Read The Climate Caper, it is a wonderful little book that should delight non-public-intellectuals and really put a flea in the ear of the alarmists. Particularly at dinner parties when half the guests are loony-left bigots.
As the parallel universe of Global Warming moves from the science-as-politics phase, to the silly-phase, then to the religious-phase — hold on to your seats. It is going to be a rough ride.
Garth Paltridge on The Climate Caper
17 July 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8oiXUZ-rVQ
Garth describes his book.
He says @3:19:
That sounds like a really interesting book.
And says:
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