The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism)

By Stephen Jay Gould

Book Overview

Global warming"
the Left's last best chance to gain a stranglehold on our political system and economy

For decades, environmentalism has been the Left's best excuse for increasing government control over our actions in ways both large and small. It's for Mother Earth! It's for the children! It's for the whales! But until now, the doomsday-scenario environmental scares they've trumped up haven't been large enough to justify the lifestyle restrictions they want to impose. With global warming, however, greenhouse gasbags can argue that auto emissions in Ohio threaten people in Paris, and that only "global governance" (Jacques Chirac's words) can tackle such problems.

Now, in The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Global Warming and Environmentalism, Christopher C. Horner tears the cover off the Left's manipulation of environmental issues for political purposes--and lays out incontrovertible evidence for the fact that catastrophic man-made global warming is just more Chicken-Little hysteria, not actual science. He explains why, although Al Gore and his cronies among the media elites and UN globalists endlessly bleat that "global warming" is an unprecedented global crisis, they really think of it as a dream come true. It's the ideal scare campaign for those who hate capitalism and love big government. For, as Horner explains, if global warming really were as bad as the Leftist doomsayers insist it is, then no policy imaginable could "solve" it. According to the logic of the greens' own numbers, no matter how much we sacrifice there would still be more to do. That makes global warming the bottomless well of excuses for the relentless growth of big government.

Horner (an attorney and senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute) reveals the full anti-American, anti-capitalist, and anti-human agenda of today's environmentalists, dubbing them "green on the outside, red to the core." He details how they use strong-arm legal tactics--and worse--against those who dare to point out the weakness of their arguments for global warming. Along the way, he explodes ten top global warming myths, carefully examining the evidence to determine how much warming there really is and what is actually causing it. He exposes the lies that the environmental lobby routinely tells to make its case; the ways in which it is trying to impose initiatives such as the Kyoto Protocol on an unwilling American public; and much more--including the green lobby's favorite politicians (John Kerry, John McCain, Joe Lieberman, and others).

It's time to stand up to the environmentalist industry and insist: human beings are not the enemy. In breezy, light-hearted, and always entertaining fashion, The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Global Warming and Environmentalism gives you the facts you need to do so.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596985011
• ISBN13: 9781596985018
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.2" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Global Warming Is Suuuuch a Hoax, it's the proverbial Emotionalism in place of Science and Ideology

Horner's politically incorrect book against both the myth and quasi-religion of global warming (on account it's based on nothing but philosophy as opposed to facts or science!) is a long overdue godsend and point-by-point refutation of Gore and environmentalist hysteria. The point with Horner's book is not that it totally massacres the talking point-propaganda from the liberals, it's the airtight specificity with which it...

A Refutation of Para-science

Mr. Horner did a very thorough analysis of current popular and widely believed commentary about global climate change. Due to the fact that the media tends to oversimplify the topic in order to create fear and impact for ratings, most of his work was about putting cogent, rational perspective into this debate. Science is complicated, tricky and slow and also its method is part of a long tradition of cautious inquiry. Suffice...

"Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing."

I am a former environmentalist. Quotes like the one in my title (from Tim Wirth, a former Clinton State Department official) pushed me to be a FORMER environmentalist. Now I am a conservationist. I do believe some wild spaces should be saved. I recycle (A lot!). I coordinate my school's paper recycling program. I own several of those little flourescent bulbs and I use them every day. I don't spray chemicals all over my...

Enviros Beware

What a shame that this penetrating, sarcastic yet accurate polemic has to be made available as something "politically incorrect". Since it was written by a Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Insitute, this by itself might have been enough to make an old "tree-hugger" avoid it. Part I is an exposé of the true motivations of today's self-proclaimed enviros, who are shown to take seriously the line: "We're from the...

Good overview of the flip side of the argument

As this book shows, the debate over global warming is not as one-sided as the media would have you believe. The authors do a great job showing that there is great debate on whether it even exists and the problems they have telling this version. As the book shows, there is still much on weather and climate scientists do not understand and can't be predicted. Al Gore's "An Inconvient Truth" is focused on, showing the various...