Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything

Synopsis

In Lukewarming: The New Climate Science That Changes Everything, Michaels And Knappenberger, Two Scientists With More Than Half A Century Experience Between Them, Explore The Realities And Myths Of Global Warming--which Is More Likely To Be Lukewarm Rather Than Hot. --publisher A Little History -- The Lukewarm World -- Autumn In Paris -- Getting Real About The Greenhouse Effect -- Human Nature And Forecasting Models -- Grand Narratives, Availability Cascades, And Grandfalloons -- In The Availability Cascade, What Is Not Real Is Real -- The Availability Cascade Runs Amok -- Paris, December 1, 2015 -- California Cascade -- Outside The Cascade : Reality Bites -- Breaking Up With Your Forecast Is Hard To Do -- Is The Pause Just An Artifact Or Bad Data? -- Testing The Climate Models -- Paris, December 4, 2015 -- If You Explain Everything, You Explain Nothing -- Popper Vs. Knobs On The Climate Machine : Lukewarmers Choose Popper -- Does This Tail Make Me Look Fat? -- Some More Insensitivity About Global Warming -- The Sociology Of Climate Alarmism -- The First National Climate Assessment : Willful Violation Of Normative Science -- The Second National Climae Assessment : A Key Deliverable Of President Obama's Climate Action Plan -- Paris, December 10, 2015 -- U.s. Temperature Assessments : Cherries For The Picking -- Alternative Reality : The Lukewarmer's Greener World -- Back To The Genetic Garden Of Eden? -- Rational Optimism In The Lukewarm World -- Food To Burn -- Is Global Warming Making Us Ill? -- The Sexiest Storms On Earth -- How The U.s. Global Change Research Program Sees Hurricanes -- Typhoon Haiyan : Man Has Slapped Nature In The Face -- Are Floods Increasing? -- Tornado Warning! -- Quiz Time : Damages From Extreme Weather -- Polar Ice Extent : A Tale Of Two Hemispheres -- Death Of The Polar Bear? -- The End Of The Apocalypse -- Human Nature -- Climate Magicc -- Damn The Magicc, Full Speed Ahead -- Paris, December 12, 2015 -- Paris's Last Tango? Patrick J. Michaels And Paul C. Knappenberger. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.