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Taken for a ride?(Science And Environment; Taken by Storm)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

The American Enterprise

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Christopher Essex and Ross McKitrick, Taken by Storm, Key Porter Books, 2002 (keyporter.com)

Most books skeptical of global warming aim to dispute certain findings of, say, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Christopher Essex, a mathematician, and Ross McKitrick, an economist, instead, ask the really fundamental questions about global warming: Are the concepts worthwhile or knowable in the first place?

Take the global average temperature, fundamental to the question of whether the planet is warming. They point out that the concept is ...

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