Tim Flannery’s best seller under the spotlight of climate change realism
by
D Weston Allen
From our old blog: May 19, 2011.
- 400 pages
- 100 plus illustrations
- 300 plus peer-reviewed references
- well indexed
The Weather Makers Re-examined is the first comprehensive review and critique of The Weather Makers – the 2005 best seller that propelled Tim Flannery to become the Australian of the Year (2007) and now the Panasonic Climate Change Commissioner for the Gillard Government.
Leading IPCC reviewer, Vincent Gray PhD., calls Dr. Allen’s Re-examined “the most knowledgeable and comprehensive indictment of the global warming bandwagon.” A former Director in the US Department of Energy, William Happer PhD., tells the author, “The people of the world should collectively thank you, and maybe they will some day.”
Dr. Allen puts every chapter of Tim’ Flannery’s thesis on global warming alarmism under the spotlight of the most up-to-date scientific realism – in climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide, the reliability of the temperature records, sea levels, glaciers, the true state of the Arctic, Antarctic, Greenland, the Great Barrier Reef, extreme weather events, acidification of the oceans, oscillating Atlantic and Pacific currents and much more.
The Weather Makers is shown to contain
- 23 misinterpretations,
- 28 contradictory statements,
- 31 untraceable or suspect sources,
- 45 failures to reflect uncertainty,
- 66 over-simplifications or factual errors,
- 78 exaggerations and over a hundred unsupported dogmatic statements, many of them quite outlandish. (A brilliant Spreadsheet that documents all this available on request.)
Always a scholar and a gentleman, Wes Allen never uses ad hominem arguments, but treats Tim Flannery with courtesy and respect. His predilection for cautious understatement, however, makes for some humorous one-liners. For example, he says that after Flannery has diagnosed his beloved Gaia as suffering from a raging life-threatening fever, “he prescribes the equivalent of a homeopathic remedy.”
With CC Commissioner Flannery now leading the charge for a government carbon tax to mitigate runaway global warming, the timing for the publication reviewing the science of The Weather Makers Re-examined could not be better. There are few things more powerful than a quality book whose time has come. The Weather Makers Re-examined is such a book.
$39.60 posted free anywhere in Australia. Irenic Publications, 57 Duranbah Road, Duranbah NSW 2487. Order directly from www.irenicpublications.com.au
UPDATE
It appears that not one of the scientists who have gone into bat for the government’s program to stop Climate Change are willing to enter into discussion with Dr. Weston Allen. He has sent a copy of his book The Weather Makers Re-examined to Tim Flannery without a word of response. He has sent a copy of his book to one of the scientists, Professort Kurt Lambeck, who has put his name to a document put our by the Australian Academy of Science in defence of what is regarded as Climate Change orthodoxy. Dr. Allen has received no reply from this scientist either. In the view of these very authoritarian scientists, it appears they are insisting that their pronouncements are beyond argument or discussion. They support the steps being taken toward subjecting us all to a carbon dictatorship.
The points raised hereunder by Dr. Wes Allen are more or less a digest of some of the key points found in The Weather Makers Re-examined, a 400-page book that puts the theories and claims of Dr. Tim Flannery ( author of The Weather Makers) to the sword of the best peer-reviewed science.
Dr D Weston Allen
MBBS, FRACGP, Grad Dip Phys Med