文档介绍：The Great Global Warming Blunder
T H E G R E AT G L O B A L
WA R M I N G B L U N D E R
How Mother Nature Fooled
the World’s Top Climate Scientists
ROY W. S PE NC E R
E NCOU NTE R BO OKS
New York · London
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The great global warming blunder : how mother nature fooled
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Contents
Introduction & Background
vi i
C hapte r 1 · Climate Change Happens · 1
C hapte r 2 · “We Are Going to Destroy
the Creation”· 25
C hapte r 3 · Forcing: How Warming
Gets Started · 37
C hapte r 4 · Feedback: How Much Warming
Results from the Forcing · 54
C hapte r 5 · How Mother Nature Fooled the
World’s Top Climate Scientists · 64
C hapte r 6 · Global Warming: Satellite Evidence
for an Alternative Explanation · 104
C hapte r 7 · CO₂: Dangerous Pollutant or
Elixir of Life? · 1