I've seen (on KPIX news) and listened (his radio show on KSFO and his podcast) to Brian Sussman for years and believe that he did a great job debunking the myth of global warming. I would hope he would update this book so everyone knows that global warming is still not happening. ( )

Brian Sussman writes a compelling book documenting the liberty-limiting goals of global warming alarmists. Work has been done in recent years to discredit weathermen as just five-day forecasters and television personalities, and therefore not to be looked to as experts on anthropogenic global warming (AGW). In fact, any scientist, be they experts in geology, hydrology, entomology or statistics have no credibility as long as they dispute man's continued domestic abuse of Mother Earth.

I can just imagine it now, AGW alarmists discredit Sussman, as a once trusted meteorologist who knew his place in science. For some reason, he snapped and became a right-wing radio talk show host broadcasting from a bunker. In his psychosis, he writes a book in between doses of antipsychotics, where he contends Karl Marx hopped in his black helicopter, that left a chemtrail on his way to America. Marx then strafed our continent with DDT impregnated with the seeds of antiAmericanism.

Brian Sussman does assign blame to the rising loss of freedom to disciples of Marx, but it is made easy due to the Marxist idea that money corrupts and other perceived laws of nature. Any "outlier" of "scientific consensus" is infected by money from environmental movement opponents. Never mind that environmental movement proponents could be buying like minded scientists who crunch numbers favorably and produce calamitous reports. Nope, it is now only experts who agree that can be trusted; science is no longer a discipline to push boundaries, it has been settled. Period.

Much of the scientific work cited as the impetus for drastic lawmaking does not portend what the legislators contend. Sussman shows that reading the next paragraph or supplemental interview of the researcher sheds light on the truth. In many cases, quotations put forward by a senator were merely acknowledgements by rational scientists that an alternative may be possible. However, these "proof-positive conclusions" do not actually represent what may have come about through research.

The first half of Climategate dismantles false claims based on myth and faulty research. Rachel Carson's research, hailed as giving birth to the modern environmental movement has been poked full of holes. This doesn't matter any more, her claims have become settled science, despite unsettling facts. Thinning bird egg shells and trout liver cancer are now known not to be DDT related, but that doesn't stop the near worldwide ban on this effective and life saving insecticide. Despite people practically bathing in DDT and consuming glass fully of it, respected authorities like Washington state's Department of Health warn of the short- and long-term exposure dangers of the chemical. Washington state even cites fish liver as a reason to be cautious of DDT use. Yet it was discovered later a fungal toxin, aflatoxin, caused the fishes ailment.

Sussman tries to get across the fact that carbon dioxide, the bad boy of AGW, accounts for 38/1000th of our atmosphere. Of this gas, even government bodies can attribute a scant 3% to being man-made. As with discrediting outlier scientists, I suppose the agricultural scholars who proved that tripling CO2 significantly shortened growing times of food crops were given truckloads of cash from Big Petroleum.

But, increasing the food supply is not the goal of the environmental elite. Neither is inexpensive energy. After a couple of chapters skewering Vice President Al Gore, and linking him to a proponent of Marxism (as well as Big Petroleum), Brian Sussman connects environmental activism to goals of making Earth one big commune.

The first two-thirds of the book lays the ground work that leads a frightful population to accept the liberty-stripping laws waiting for us. Agenda 21, condoning off large masses of America as biospheres, and legislating remotely controlled thermostats, we are loosing individual independence. Once fossil fuel energy sources are diminished, the alternative sources we turn to fail to meet demand.

This book is disheartening, as it successfully puts into context two seemingly incongruous movements connected out of public view by money. As we diminish the output of carbon dioxide, we can't estimate the decrease in food production. Our lives will soon regress to third-world status as the food stuff we rely on becomes fuel. Energy will become more expensive and controlled from afar. All in the name of saving Mother Earth. ( )