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Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity
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Vital reading for anyone trying to persuade others to do something about climate change
This is a really important book about climate change and therefore about all of our futures, whether we are actively seeking to embed the implications of climate change into our work and lives - or not.
I was initially put off by the title - assuming it would be a well-argued put-down of various 'climate change deniers' by one of the world's leading climatologists (though the 1-star reviewers here could probably do with one of those, and perhaps with actually reading this book too!). I didn't need to read another one of those.
But then I read a short article by Mike Hulme and realised it was so much more. This book is a drains-up analysis of why science, economics, politics, religious and secular systems of ethics, the media are each inadequate for providing 'the answers' many seek to the questions about what we should be doing as a society - or even as a species - in response to the potentially dramatic climatic chagnes we have unintentionally unleashed on our futures.
Hulme draws skillfully on a wide range of academic disciplines and lays out his compelling narrative with care and clarity, leading the reader through the logic of his analysis with ease.
If you've never asked yourself WHY climate change matters - or if you have but then didn't challenge your own answer for its failure to be anything other than your own answer - you'll be stimulated and, potentially, liberated and empowered by this book.
Misleading title, but may give insight into a leftie mindset 
This book only has value for those wishing to gain insight into left-wing thinking/deception. This is an important area, not least because of their political success through the IPCC. It has a very misleading title, since it does not address the fundamental disagreements which exist between those who regard CO2 (including the 3% attributed to human actions) as being of very minor importance as an influence on climate, and those, like the author, who are enjoying their ride on the AGW bandwagon, and who see it as an opportunity to promote their version of socialism.
Why we disagree about climate change
If you were expecting further evidence to refute the latest religion "Climate Change", then you will be disappointed.
If anything, this book by Mike Hulme has a misleading title, and especially so when 'recommended' as a package purchased alongside other "anti-Climate Change fraud" books.
Personally, I was annoyed and can not recommend this book, although I do admit to not having read ALL the way through it, as it is very much at odds with my own scientific beliefs on the subject, and does not address the lack of 'proper' evidence to support this world-wide Scam.
Its' "sister book" which I purchased initially, "Heaven and Earth" by Ian Plimer, I DO recommend, as it very successfully debunks the Climate-Change Fraud.
This is a must-read.
Mike Hulme has wonderfully collated the wide and various reasons why we disagree on climate change into one book with as much an impartial standpoint as is possible. It has opened my eyes and made me realise that not all of us see the world as I do.
Great Reading on Tricky Subject
Mike Hulme deals with the complex area of why people disagree about climate change in an interesting easy to read way. He doesn't offer any solutions but certainly made me think. The last chapter was the most challenging. I will certainly try to take more of a personal responsibility for the world I live in from now on.
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Retail Price: $28.99. Paperback: 432 pages. Publisher: Cambridge University Press – (2009-05-25). ISBN / EAN: 0521727324 / 9780521727327. This entry was posted on Friday, October 23rd, 2009 at 8:37 am and is filed under 2009 - Fall, ...
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