Page 91 ‘an unusually rapid dramatic version of what Thomas Kuhn…called a ‘paradigm shift’.’ – Kuhn, T., (1996), The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Third Edition (Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press).
Page 92 ‘As the philosopher Karl Popper first argued in the 1930s…’ – Popper, K., (1992), The Logic of Scientific Discovery, (London: Routledge).
Page 95 ‘the Royal Society issued an important and definitive statement’ – Royal Society, December 16, 2009. Available at: http://royalsociety.org/Preventing-dangerous-climate-change/ [Accessed 23 January 2011].
Page 95 ‘There is no such thing as ‘safe’ climate change.’ – ibid.
Page 96 ‘Only after complaints from forty-three members was the Royal Society shamed into modifying its statement’ – ‘Climate change: A summary of the science’, September 2010. Available at: http://royalsociety.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=4294972963 [Accessed 13 April 2011] Page 99 ‘Post Normal Science: a concept you won’t have heard of, invented by two men you’ve never heard of either…’ – Ravetz, J., K., & Funtowicz, S., (2003), ‘Post Normal Science’, International Society for Ecological Economics. Available at: http://www.ecoeco.org/pdf/pstnormsc.pdf [Accessed 23 January 2011].
Page 99 ‘…as Thomas Spratt pointed out as early as 1667’ – Spratt, T., (1667), History of the Royal Society of London: for the improving of natural knowledge, (London: printed by T[homas]. R[oycroft]. for J. Martyn at the Bell without Temple-bar, and J. Allestry at the Rose and Crown in Duck-lane, printers to the Royal Society)
Pages 100 ‘This was what President Eisenhower was warning about’ – ‘Farewell Address to the Nation’, January 17, 1961. Available at: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/ike.htm [Accessed 23 January 2011].
Page 100 ‘As David Michaels noted … in the Washington Post…’ – Michaels, D., (2008), ‘It’s not the answers that are biased, it’s the questions’, Washington Post, July 15. Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/14/AR2008071402145.html [Accessed 23 January 2011].
Page 101 ‘Recently, my ‘climate scepticism’ was challenged on a BBC documentary’ – see ‘Science Under Attack’, BBC Horizon, Description Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y4yql [Accessed January 23, 2011]. Preview available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SmPjVCfTgM
Page 102 ‘Enstrom and Kabat analysed thirty years of American Cancer Society data’ – Kabat, Geoffrey C., (2008), Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology, (New York: Columbia Press) pp.147–182.
Page 103 ‘…the BBC made an uncharacteristically fair and balanced attempt at examining some of these issues…’ – see ‘Can science ever be truly morally neutral?’, BBC Radio 4 The Moral Maze, Description available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p2z8m [Accessed 23 January 2011].
Page 104 ‘At first Schneider appears to be in full agreement with Professor Wolpert…’ – Schneider, S., ‘Mediarology’: The Roles of Citizens, Journalists, and Scientists in Debunking Climate Change Myths’. Available at: http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Mediarology/
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Page 104 ‘Time magazine…’The Heat Is On’ cover story’ – Lemonick, M., D., (1987), ‘The Heat Is On’, Time magazine, October 19. Available: http://www.time.com/time/
magazine/article/0,9171,965776,00.html [Accessed 23 January 2011].
Page 106 ‘I got this sensation again when reading one of the guest posts on Watts Up With That?’ – Watts, A. (2010) ‘Climategate: Plausibility and the blogosphere in the post-normal age’, Watts Up With That?, February 9. Available at: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/09/climategate-plausibility-and-the-blogosphere-in-the-post-normal-age/ [Accessed 23 January 2011].
Page 107 ‘A few weeks earlier, I remembered reading his essay on Post Normal Science…’ – see ‘Climate Change and the Death of Science’, Buy The Truth Blog, October 31, 2009. Available at: http://buythetruth.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/climate-change-and-the-death-of-science/ [Accessed 23 January 2011].
Page 108 ‘In the abstract for their 1993 treatise ‘Science for the Post Normal Age’ they claimed…’ – Ravetz, J., R., & Funtowicz, O.E. (1993), ‘Science for the Post Normal Age’, Futures, September, 25(7): 739–55.
Page 109 ‘Among those who certainly understood this early on was Mike Hulme of the Tyndall Centre…’ – Hulme, M., (2007), ‘The Appliance of Science’, Guardian Online, March 14. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/
mar/14/scienceofclimatechange.climatechange [Accessed 23 January 2011].
Page 110 ‘At least Joseph Bast…was wise to his game…’ – Bast, J., (2009) ‘What Climate Change Can Do for the Left’, American Thinker, July 17. Available at: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/
what_climate_change_can_do_for.html [Accessed 23 January 2011].
Pages 111 ‘[Hulme] employs the beguiling technique of hiding his views in plain sight, as when he declares’ – Hulme, M., (2009), Why We Disagree about Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity, (UK: Cambridge University Press).
Chapter Six: A Few Things You Should Know About ‘Global Warming’
Page 113 ‘DIANE: This generation are disaster junkies….’ – from ‘The Heretic’ (2011), a play by Richard Bean performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, February 4 – March 19, 2011.
Pages 115 ‘Pachaurigate has exposed the shady dealings of Dr. Rajendra Pachauri…’ – North, R., (2009) ‘A busy man’, EU Referendum, December 14. Available at: http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/12/busy-man.html [accessed 5 March 2011].
Page 116 ‘Why does [TERI] run a golf course in a parched district of India, using up to 300,000 gallons of water a day?’ – Watts, A. (2010), ‘Pachauri’s TERI institute golf course – water hog in a city desperate for fresh water’, Watts Up With That, February 20. Available at: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/20/pachauris-teri-institute-golf-course-water-hog-in-a-city-desparate-for-fresh-water/ [Accessed 23 January 2011].
Page 116 ‘Africagate, for example, has exposed its dubious claim that climate change could by 2020 cause yields from rain-fed agriculture in some African countries to fall by as much as 50 per cent.’ – North, R. (2010). ‘And now for Africagate’, February 7. http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/02/and-now-for-africagate.html [Accessed 5 March 2011]
Page 117 ‘Amazongate concerned another dodgy claim made in the [Fourth Assessment Report]’ – North, R. (2010), ‘And now for Amazongate’, January 25. http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/01/and-now-for-amazongate.html [accessed 5 March 2011]. See also ‘Amazongate: The Missing Evidence’, Telegraph Online, June 26. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/
columnists/christopherbooker/7856474/
Amazongate-the-missing-evidence.html
Page 117 ‘Most damaging, though, was Glaciergate.’ – Booker, C., (2010), ‘Pachauri: the real story behind the Glaciergate scandal’, Telegraph Online, January 23. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/
columnists/christopherbooker/7062667/
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Page 118 ‘Pachauri began back-tracking. First he claimed it was a slip-up…’ – Dunlop, W., G., (2010), ‘IPCC chief defends panel in Himalaya glacier flap’, AFP, January 19. Available at: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/
ALeqM5iYbUYSAqzBzVfNdFTN9EeP5gXbNg [Accessed 23 January 2011].
Page 119 ‘According to another IPCC author, however, it was no such thing.’ – North, R., (2010), ‘Glaciergate – Still a Long Way From The Truth’, EU Referendum Blog, January 31. Available at: http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/01/glaciergate-still-long-way-from-truth.html [Accessed 23 January 2011].
Page 119 ‘Obviously it was difficult on occasion to resist the temptation to gloat…’ – Delingpole, J., (2009), ‘Climategate goes uber-viral, Gor
e flees leaving evil henchmen to defend crumbling citadel’, Telegraph Online, December 4. Available at: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/
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Page 120 ‘The first, a cursory parliamentary investigation by the House of Commons Science committee…’ – House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, ‘The disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia’. Available at: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/
cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech/387/387i.pdf [Accessed 23 January 2011].
Page 120 ‘The second inquiry, though, made the first one look tougher than the Spanish Inquisition.’– Booker, C. (2010), ‘Can We Trust the Climategate Inquiry’, March 27. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/7530961/Can-we-trust-the-Climategate-inquiry.html [Accessed 23 January 2011].
Page 121 ‘The third inquiry, headed by Sir Muir Russell, was also a whitewash.’ – see Montford, A., (2010), ‘Slanted inquiries’, September 17. Available at: http://opinion.financialpost.com/2010/09/17/slanted-inquiries/ [Accessed 13 April 2011]
Page 123 ‘As Professor Bob Carter notes and summarises…’ – Carter, R., M., (2010), Climate: The Counter Consensus, (Turkey: Stacey International).
Page 125 ‘This open letter sent by 141 scientists to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon…’ – see: ‘Open Letter to UN Secretary-General’, 8 December 2009. Available at: http://www.copenhagenclimatechallenge.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1 [Accessed 23 January 2011].
Page 126 ‘In 1670, the French philosopher Pascal argued that even if there is no proof for the existence of God…’ – Pascal, B., (1996), Pensées, (England: Penguin Books).
Page 130 ‘Rising sea levels’ – Mörner, Nils-Axel (2010). ‘Some problems in the reconstruction of mean sea level and its changes with time’ Quaternary International, Volume 221, Issues 1–2, 1 July, pp. 3–8
Pages 130–131 Maldives – Mörner, Nils-Axel; Tooley, Michael; Possnert, Göran (2004). ‘New perspectives for the future of the Maldives’, Global and Planetary Change 40 (1–2): 177–182. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/
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Page 131 Flooding in Bangladesh– ‘River sediment may counter Bangladesh sea level rise’ (2010), SciDev.net, citing research by the Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services, Dhaka. Available at: http://www.scidev.org/en/news/river-sediment-may-counter-bangladesh-sea-level-rise.html
Page 131–132 Polar bears – IUCN (2009), Proceedings of the 15th Working Meeting of the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group, 29 June-3 July. Available at: http://data.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/SSC-OP-043.pdf. See also: http://www.animalinfo.org/species/carnivor/ursumari.htm
Page 132 Opening of the Northwest Passage – McKie, R., (2007), ‘Arctic thaw opens fabled trade route’, Guardian Online, September 16. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/
sep/16/climatechange [Accessed 23 January 2011].
Page 132 ‘Al Gore’s hero Bill McKibben grew similarly excited’ – McKibben, B., (2009) ‘Think Again: Climate Change’, Foreign Policy, January 1. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/
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Page 133 ‘As … Ian Wishart records’ – Wishart, I., (2009), Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming, (HATM Publishing).
Page 133 ‘According to the World Bank…’ – World Bank, (2007), ‘Development Actions and the Rising Incidence of Disasters’, Independent Evaluation Group. Available at: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTOED/
Resources/developing_actions.pdf [Accessed 23 January 2011]. See also: van der Vink, G., et al. (1998) ‘Why the United States is becoming more vulnerable to natural disasters’ EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, vol. 79, pp.533–537 November 3. Available at: http://seismo.berkeley.edu/~rallen/pub/1998ushaz/index.php
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Page 133 ‘And according to the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment report’ – IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. Available at: http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/
publications_and_data_reports.shtml#1 [Accessed 23 January 2011].
Page 134 ‘A press release from IPCC author Kevin Trenberth’ – see ‘Chris Landsea Leaves IPCC’, Prometheus Blog, 17 January 2005. Available at: http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/
science_policy_general/000318chris_landsea_1
Page 134 ‘Reuters reported’ – Fox, M. (2004). ‘Global warming effects faster than feared’, Reuters, October 24. http://www.planetark.com/
dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/27825/story.htm
Page 134 ‘Landsea wrote to Dr Pachauri’ – Landsea’s correspondence available at: http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/ipcc-correspondence.pdf [Accessed 23 January 2011].
Page 134 ‘The IPCC, wrote Landsea’ – Ferguson, R. (2010), ‘Dr Chris Landsea leaves the IPCC’, Science and Public Policy Institute Blog, January 20. Available at: http://sppiblog.org/news/dr-chris-landsea-leaves-the-ipcc [Accessed 23 January 2011].
Page 135 ‘The handy one they have settled on is ‘Ocean Acidification’, first popularised by a 2005 report by the (fanatically alarmist) Royal Society…’ – see ‘Ocean acidification due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide’, Royal Society, June 2005. Available at: http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/Caldeira%20downloads/RoyalSociety_OceanAcidification.pdf [Accessed 23 January 2011]. See also I.E. Hendriks, C., Duarte, M., and Álvarez, M., (2010), ‘Vulnerability of marine biodiversity to ocean acidification: A meta-analysis’ Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Volume 86, Issue 2, 20 January, Pages 157–164. From summary: ‘Active biological processes and small-scale temporal and spatial variability in ocean pH may render marine biota far more resistant to ocean acidification than hitherto believed.’ Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/
article/pii/S027277140900537X
Chapter Seven: Watermelons
Page 137 ‘Global Warming is the mother of all environmental scares…’ – Wildavsky, A. (1992), Foreword to The Heated Debate by Robert Balling (San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute).
Page 138 ‘the green movement as it chooses to represent itself in books such as Time’s Up…’ – Farnish, K., (2009), Time’s Up: An Uncivilized Solution To A Global Crisis, (Cornwall: Green Books).
Page 139 ‘One of these people is a guy named James Hansen…’ – Editorial Reviews, Time’s Up [ibid.] http://www.amazon.com/Times-Up-Uncivilized-Solution-Global/dp/190032248X/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1 [Accessed April 13, 2011]
Page 140 Hansen, J. (2009) ‘Coal fired power stations are death factories. Close them.’ The Observer, February 15.
Page 142 ‘But then again, when asked by the Radio Times which animal he wouldn’t mind seeing extinct…’ – Gallagher, W. (2009), ‘Autumnwatch’s Chris Packham: ‘Let Pandas Die’, Radio Times, 22 September. Available at: http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/745-news-autumnwatchs-chris-packham-let-pandas-die/ [Accessed 23 January 2011].
Page 143 ‘Consider this statement from the late professional 60s gambler-turned-zookeeper John Aspinall…’ – quoted in Gray, J. (1993), Beyond the New Right: Markets, Government and the Common Environment, (GB: Routledge), p. 178.
Page 144 ‘the Optimum Population Trust’– ‘Assuming the global bio capacity and average footprint remain stable at the 2003 level, then, to become sustainable, the world population needs to contract to a maximum of 5.1 billion’. Available at: http://www.optimumpopulation.org/opt.optimum.html [Accessed April 13, 2011]
Page 144 ‘I was first alerted to the green movement’s curiou
s psychopathology’ – see: BBC Radio 4 Any Questions. Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00m45d0/
Any_Questions_21_08_2009/ [Accessed 23 January 2011], from 35:00 onwards.
Page 146 ‘Without this book, the environmental movement might have been long delayed…’ – Gore, A. (1994), Introduction to Silent Spring. Available at: http://www.uneco.org/ssalgoreintro.html [Accessed 23 January 2011].
Page 147 ‘the Environmental Protection Agency’s seven-month hearing (and more than 9,000 pages of testimony) prior to the ban being enacted’ – Sweeney, Edmund (1972). ‘EPA hearing examiner’s recommendations and findings concerning DDT hearings’ 40 CFR 164.32. As cited in The Excellent Powder: DDT’s Political and Scientific History (2010) Donald Roberts, Richard Tren. (Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing).
Page 147 ‘On Earth Day in 2007, thirteen prominent environmentalists (among them Al Gore) paid tribute to her legacy in an essay collection called Courage to the Earth.’ – Matthiessen, P., eds. (2007), Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists Celebrate the Life and Writing of Rachel Carson, (USA: Houghton Mifflin Company).
Pages 148 ‘Ehrlich is best known for The Population Bomb, the 1968 bestseller which terrified hippies…’ – Ehrlich, P.R. (1971), The Population Bomb, (Cutchogue, N.Y.: Buccaneer Books).
Page 149 ‘Commoner propounded his theory in his 1971 bestseller The Closing Circle’ – Commoner, B. (1971), The Closing Circle: Nature, Man and Technology, (New York: Alfred Knopf).
Page 149 ‘Around the same time, the British research scientist James Lovelock was formulating his ‘earth feedback hypothesis’…’ – Lovelock, J., (1979) Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth. (Oxford University Press)
Page 150 ‘Lovelock spells it out in a recent book’ – Lovelock, J., (2007), The Revenge of Gaia: Why the earth is fighting back – and how we can still save humanity, (London: Penguin).
Page 150 ‘In an interview about the book, he crows’ – James Lovelock interviewed in Daily Mail, 22 March 2008, ‘We’re all doomed’. Available at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-541748/Were-doomed-40-years-global-catastrophe-theres-NOTHING-says-climate-change-expert.html [Accessed 13 April 2011]
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