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Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, The Missing Science is a nonfiction book written by Ian Plimer as a critique of what he sees as irrational elements within the environmental movement. He is critical of greenhouse gas politics and argues that extreme environmental changes are inevitable and unavoidable. He suggests that meteorologists have a huge amount to gain from climate change research, and that they have narrowed the climate change debate to the atmosphere - Plimer claims that the truth is more complex. He suggests that money would be better directed to dealing with problems as they occur rather than making expensive and futile attempts to prevent climate change.

He differs markedly from the climate change consensus in contending that the Great Barrier Reef will benefit from rising seas, that there is no correlation between carbon dioxide levels and temperature, that only 0.1 % of carbon dioxide emissions are due to human activities, and that 96% of the greenhouse effect is due to water vapour.

Plimer claims that the current theory of human-induced global warming is not in accord with history, archaeology, geology or astronomy and must be rejected, and that promotion of this theory as science is fraudulent, and that the current alarmism on climate change is not science. In 2009, Plimer released Heaven and Earth: Global Warming the Missing Science, a book in which he claims that climate models focus too strongly on the effects of carbon dioxide, rather than factoring other issues such as solar variation.

Criticisms

His book was criticised as unscientific and riddled with errors by computer scientist Tim Lambert, and Melbourne University climate change expert Professor David Karoly, inter alia. Professor Charlie Veron, former chief scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, said every original statement Plimer makes in the book on coral and coral reefs is incorrect, and that " serve up diagrams from no acknowledged source, diagrams known to be obsolete and diagrams that combine bits of science with bits of fiction."

Professor Barry Brook, Director of Climate Science at The Environment Institute, University of Adelaide, said that Plimer's assertions about man’s role in climate change were "naive, reflected a poor understanding of climate science, and relied on recycled and distorted arguments that had been repeatedly refuted".

References

1. Akerman, Piers (2007-04-12). "ABC scaremongering on the environment | Opinion". News.com.au. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
2. "Cool heads missing in the pressure cooker - Environment". smh.com.au. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
3. "Beware the climate of conformity". Smh.com.au. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
4. "The science is missing from Ian Plimer's "Heaven and Earth" : Deltoid". scienceblogs.com. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
5. "Ian Plimer 'can not recall' where his graph came from : Deltoid". scienceblogs.com. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
6. ^ "The sceptic's shadow of doubt". theage.com.au. Retrieved 2009-05-05. {{cite web}}: Text "theage.com.au" ignored (help)
7. "Ian Plimer - Heaven and Earth « BraveNewClimate.com". bravenewclimate.com. Retrieved 2009-05-05.

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