GLOBAL WARMING AND POLITICAL INTIMIDATION by Raymond S. Bradley ( 9781558498693 )

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GLOBAL WARMING AND POLITICAL INTIMIDATION
HOW POLITICIANS CRACKED DOWN ON SCIENTISTS AS THE EARTH HEATED UP

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Raymond S. Bradley

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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS

Pub. date:

21 June, 2011

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168

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A firsthand account of the political war on science and a primer on climate change that addresses the real questions at stake

Synopsis:

Global warming is the number one environmental issue of our time, yet some prominent politicians have refused to accept scientific evidence of human responsibility and have opposed any legislation or international agreement that would limit greenhouse gas emissions. A few have gone even further and have tried to destroy the reputations of scientists researching climate change by deliberately undermining the credibility of their research. These politicians have sought to sow seeds of doubt in the minds of the public and to weaken public and political support for the control of fossil fuel use.In this powerful book, highly respected climate scientist Raymond Bradley provides the inside story from the front lines of the debate. In clear and direct language, he describes the tactics those in power have used to intimidate him and his colleagues part of a larger pattern of governmental suppression of scientific information, politics at the expense of empirically based discourse.Speaking from his experience, Bradley exposes the fault lines in the global warming debate, while providing a concise primer on climate change. The result is a cautionary tale of how politics and science can become fatally intertwined.

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