Hacène Arezki
Climate, lies and propaganda
Climate, lies and propaganda
Paris, Thierry Souccar, 2010. 320 pages, 14 x 21 cm, softcover. - 97829168786071
issues ideological and economic colossal, an ordinary scientific controversy has grown bordering on hysteria. The fight against global warming has become a crusade, an obsession which adds to the confusion and kills the scientific debate.
Far from any lobby and all passion, the geographer Hacène Arezki offers a radical rethinking, by answering basic questions: What is the true extent of global warming? Is this warming unprecedented? Should we be alarmed? Apart from human activities, what other hypotheses may explain this serious? Beyond
aspects scientists, this book unveils the real political, economic and media debate on global warming. The investigation into the saga of Al Gore and the Climategate, among others, is eloquent. This book has a rare quality: making the climate debate accessible to all without sacrificing scientific rigor for a moment.
Hacène Arezki, geographer, lecturer for two years at the University of Paris 7, PhD, is defined not as a scientist locked in his beliefs, but rather as a researcher with an open mind. His book is more an investigation and reflection an indictment against "alarmist" who believe the inevitable global warming by attributing it to human activity. Hacène Arezki not deny, far away, a slow change of climate, but he believes the causes are multiple.
This is war! On one side of the climate alarmists who claim that the Earth is warming the fault of human activity. On the other, the climate skeptics for whom global warming has natural causes. Who to believe? Who to follow? Because it hides
issues ideological and economic colossal, an ordinary scientific controversy has grown bordering on hysteria. The fight against global warming has become a crusade, an obsession which adds to the confusion and kills the scientific debate.
Far from any lobby and all passion, the geographer Hacène Arezki offers a radical rethinking, by answering basic questions: What is the true extent of global warming? Is this warming unprecedented? Should we be alarmed? Apart from human activities, what other hypotheses may explain this serious? Beyond
aspects scientists, this book unveils the real political, economic and media debate on global warming. The investigation into the saga of Al Gore and the Climategate, among others, is eloquent. This book has a rare quality: making the climate debate accessible to all without sacrificing scientific rigor for a moment.
Hacène Arezki, geographer, lecturer for two years at the University of Paris 7, PhD, is defined not as a scientist locked in his beliefs, but rather as a researcher with an open mind. His book is more an investigation and reflection an indictment against "alarmist" who believe the inevitable global warming by attributing it to human activity. Hacène Arezki not deny, far away, a slow change of climate, but he believes the causes are multiple.
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