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Lukewarming the new climate science that changes everything

In Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything, Michaels and Knappenberger, two scientists with more than half a century experience between them, explore the realities and myths of global warming--which is more likely to be lukewarm rather than hot. --Publisher.

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Main Authors: Michaels, Patrick J. (Author), Knappenberger, Chip (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, [2016]
Subjects:
Global warming > Political aspects.
Global warming > Social aspects.
Climatic changes > Political aspects.
Climatic changes > Social aspects.
Global warming > International cooperation.
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Table of Contents:
  • A little history
  • The lukewarm world
  • Autumn in Paris
  • Getting real about the greenhouse effect
  • Human nature and forecasting models
  • Grand narratives, availability cascades, and grandfalloons
  • In the availability cascade, what is not real is real
  • The availability cascade runs amok
  • Paris, December 1, 2015
  • California cascade
  • Outside the cascade : reality bites
  • Breaking up with your forecast is hard to do
  • Is the pause just an artifact or bad data?
  • Testing the climate models
  • Paris, December 4, 2015
  • If you explain everything, you explain nothing
  • Popper vs. Knobs on the climate machine : lukewarmers choose Popper
  • Does this tail make me look fat?
  • Some more insensitivity about global warming
  • The sociology of climate alarmism
  • The first National Climate Assessment : willful violation of normative science
  • The second National Climae Assessment : "a key deliverable of President Obama's climate action plan"
  • Paris, December 10, 2015
  • U.S. temperature assessments : cherries for the picking
  • Alternative reality : the lukewarmer's greener world
  • Back to the genetic garden of Eden?
  • Rational optimism in the lukewarm world
  • Food to burn
  • Is global warming making us ill?
  • The sexiest storms on earth
  • How the U.S. global change research program sees hurricanes
  • Typhoon Haiyan : "Man has slapped nature in the face"
  • Are floods increasing?
  • Tornado warning!
  • Quiz time : damages from extreme weather
  • Polar ice extent : a tale of two hemispheres
  • Death of the polar bear?
  • The end of the apocalypse
  • Human nature
  • Climate MAGICC
  • Damn the MAGICC, full speed ahead
  • Paris, December 12, 2015
  • Paris's last tango?

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