Move over red, white, and blue: America is going green! Green energy. Green technology. Green homes. Green cars. Green government. We've just elected our first Green president, Barack Obama, and numerous green senators and representatives. And the Greens' intentions seem good: they want us to live in a "sustainable" manner and be kind to the planet, shrinking our carbon footprints, stopping climate change and protecting wildlife and the wilderness from man’s destructive ways. They want us to end our addiction to oil by repowering America with clean, renewable energy. They want to create a healthy and just planet where people live in harmony with nature.

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According to Aristotle, the first principle of honest scientific inquiry is: "First we must seek the fact, then seek to explain." But in today's politically-charged debate over climate change, the "fact" of man-made global warming is considered scientifically proven only because various authorities and some scientists say so. Evidence no longer matters -- and any contrary work in peer-reviewed journals is just ignored. Now, in the runaway Australian bestseller Heaven and Earth: Global Warming -- The Missing Science, environmental scientist Ian Plimer mounts a withering scientific challenge to global-warming dogma and its dishonest, bullying and anti-scientific proponents.

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There's an old saying in journalism that "If it bleeds, it leads" -- or, to put it another way, "Bad news sells." But what happens when the media applies that principle to questions of scientific fact that have serious policy implications? According to climatologists Patrick Michaels and Robert Balling Jr., you get the kind of unbalanced scare-mongering that typifies today's "global warming" reportage. Now, in Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know

, Michaels and Balling explain how the political and scientific debate over climate change has become apocalyptic with rhetoric and flimsy with science.

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It's standard operating procedure for the global warming industry: they've ruined careers, blacklisted respected scientists, and knowingly spread lies about dissenters. Global warming fanatics have even called for the imprisonment of skeptics and used government pressure to cut off rivals' funding. As if all that weren't enough, one global warming skeptic has had the lug nuts on his tires secretly loosened when his rejection of climate change orthodoxy became public.

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The liberal environmental movement takes for granted that strict government regulation and public ownership is necessary for the preservation of the environment. Yet who, in the end, is responsible for the great environmental catastrophes of the recent past? According to Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the real answer is: environmentalists themselves. "The dogmatic ideologies and restrictive policies pushed on us by the environmental Left have harmed nature more than helped it," argues Murray, "but the environmentalists have never borne the blame." Now, in The REALLY Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don’t Want You to Know About – Because They Helped Cause Them, Murray reveals just how often and gravely liberal environmentalists have harmed the environment, how they have covered up this fact, and how conservatives can reclaim the environmental issue by stressing free-enterprise, private-property solutions.

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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 give the sinister prize they want most of all: total control of American politics, economic activity, and even individual behavior. Now, in The Politically Incorrect Guide 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. read more

To Al Gore and his disciples, global warming is man-made and dangerous, and unless we radically change human energy production and consumption, the results will be catastrophic for humans and all other species. But to S. Fred Singer -- founding dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences at the University of Miami -- the real question is not whether the Earth is warming -- but why and by how much. Now, in Unstoppable Global Warming, Singer and co-author Dennis T. Avery demonstrate that the earth’s current warming trend is a largely natural occurrence that we can’t do anything to stop – and which is not only harmless, but potentially beneficial.

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Former vice president Al Gore … excuse us, Oscar-winning documentarian, Nobel laureate, and shamelessly hypocritical mansion-dwelling, jet-setting energy pig Al Gore … says global warming is nothing short of a "planetary emergency" demanding elaborate and expensive actions that will cost hundreds of billions of dollars. But is the hysteria surrounding global warming rational? And would the solutions he has in mind make things better for mankind -- or worse? Now, in Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming, noted environmental expert Bjorn Lomborg draws on extensive studies and analysis -- including the UN's most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report -- to debunk numerous popular myths that are causing people to panic (and Al Gore to win prizes). read more

Rachael Carson's Silent Spring advice actually killed millions of birds? Trees cause more "air pollution" than cars? In Eco-Freaks, John Berlau shatters long-standing environmental myths with startling facts, and exposes the many ways that shortsighted environmentalism -- often based on pseudo-science or outright falsehoods -- has actually helped amplify the dangers of natural disasters, and destroyed the health, lives and property of millions of people. read more

The huge bureaucracy created by the rise in environmental regulation since the 1970s has created more waste and failure than innovation and success, say the contributors to this eye-opening book. Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy exposes the myths that have contributed to failed environmental policies and proposes bold alternatives that recognize the power of free-market approaches and the drawbacks of regulatory processes. Examining some of today's most hotly debated environmental issues -- including oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), global warming, endangered species, land use, and air quality -- Re-Thinking Green show how environmental quality can be enhanced more effectively by relying less on government agencies that are increasingly bureaucratized and unaccountable, and more on environmental entrepreneurship and the strict enforcement of private-property rights.

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Al Gore and the mainstream media tell us constantly that it's all settled: global warming is an established fact -- and it's a grave problem that it is rapidly getting worse, is caused primarily by human activity, and will lead to catastrophe if those activities continue unchecked. Says who? Why, the "experts" -- those who know directly what we can know only because they tell us. Doubtful? Go to them and ask. They have the right training and access to the best data. They understand the equations. Trust them. There are no dissenters sufficiently credible to make them worth taking seriously.

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As the first decade of the 21st century nears its end, there is ever more evidence to suggest that, thanks to global warming, the world may be heading towards an unprecedented catastrophe. But it is not the one which has been so widely and noisily predicted by the likes of Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore. The real disaster to be brought about by global warming, writes Christopher Booker, is not the technicolor apocalypse promised by Gore and his many allies -- melting ice sheets, rising sea levels, hurricanes, droughts, mass-extinctions. It will be the result of all those measures being proposed by the world's politicians in the hope that they can avert a nightmare scenario which, as many experts now believe, was never going to materialize anyway.

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