In Praise Of Carbon: How We've Been Misled Into Believing that Carbon Dioxide Causes Global Warming, Fourth Revised Edition

If you wring all the water out of us, you and I consist of a little over two thirds carbon dioxide, dry weight, as do all other living things on Earth. Still, more than a few people claim that if we pour this life-giving gas into our atmosphere, we'll burn up the planet. Is this really true? Many of those people would say, righteously, that I should be ashamed of myself for even asking the question, but that is, in fact, what this book is all about, asking that question.With "In Praise Of Carbon," I burrow beneath all the doomsday propaganda, scientific and otherwise, in search of the right answer to this question. In doing so, I've exposed some rather interesting things. Did you know, for example, that in 1900, the leading atmospheric physicist of the day, Knut ?ngstr?m, disproved Svante Arrhenius's theory of greenhouse warming with a series of careful experiments, and despite the loud protestations of its author, that theory was dismissed by the scientific climate community for 38 years? Then, in 1938, a climate hobbyist (!) pulled the theory out of the ash can and shouted to the world that "It should work!"Unfortunately, the world listened, and even though the theory of greenhouse warming has never been shown experimentally to work since then, it has, nevertheless, managed to become one of the most trusted and respected cornerstones of modern science. As a scientist, I looked somewhat askance at this, and decided to do my own due diligence, which, along with that of some others, is presented in this book along with some long overdue praise for that much-maligned substance, carbon dioxide, to which we all owe our existence.