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Friday, October 4, 2013

How Did Global Warming Evolve into Such a Contentious Issue?

by Nancy Thorner October 2, 2013
How appropriate that Rupert Darwell and his book, The Age of Global Warming: A History, should be featured by The Heartland Institute at its Author series on Thursday, September 26, the day before the release of the UN IPCCreport on global warming. The UN’s 2013 report followed the same set hypothesis as in prior years; namely, that the root cause of global warming was man-made and that its cause was CO2. Unexplained was how the probability factor of man-made global warming was cited as 95% in the 2013 IPCC report, while in the 2007 report it was five points lower at 90%.
About Rupert Darwell, he read economics and history at Cambridge, after which he worked at the Conservative Research Department and then in the City as an investment analyst and in corporate finance. He has written or leading publications in the UK and the US and for London-based think tanks.
This brief synopsis of Rupert’s book appears on its dust jacket:
Rachel Caron’s epoch-creating Silent Spring marked the beginnings of the environmental movement in the 1960′s, its “First Wave” peaking at the 1972 Stockholm Conference. The invention of ‘sustainable development’ by Barbara Ward, along with Rachael Carson the founder of the environmental movement, created an alliance of convenience between First World environmentalists and Third World set on rapid industrialization……To Read More...

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