Inaccurate in most statements, and heavily distorts what things are correct. The hazards of when politics and science meet. ( )

I really wanted to like this book. I really did. And let me say this, I AGREE with EVERYTHING in it.

I saw Horner discussing the book on C-SPAN 2 and thought I'd like the book. But here are its problems: (1) Horner thinks that he's Ann Coulter. Problem is, he's not that funny and he's lacks her concision. Which brings us to (2), the book is a disorganized, overlong, sloppy mess. This is in the top ten list of books in dire need of an EDITOR! I think Horner took every story he could find on Google, copied it, and shotgun blasted it into Microsoft Word. A typical chapter has little tying it together, a hundred names are tossed out, often without elucidation and often accompanied by a snide joke, and two dozen stories that get the point across that something is fishy, but you don't quite know what the point is. Then there are a few pictures, charts, and side-panels, the last of which are incongruous with the text, and more akin to the little side-panels in the Politically Incorrect Guide series that publisher Regnery puts out. Since I do not have Horner's PIG guide to Global Warming, I wonder if any of these chapters are merely cut and pasted from that book.

That said, many things are cited, if you can find where anything is through the disorganized mess and unhelpful index. Many of the citations, however, are to websites. This book was written before the recent "ClimateGate" scandal and the general destruction of the IPCC's latest report. This would have made fine material for the book.

To sum up, Wikipedia and the afterword to Crichton's State of Fear provide a clearer, better, and more concise overview of the anti-Warming school of thought. It took me over a year to slowly slog through this book it was so muddled and unfunny. A perfect model of how a good idea and facts doesn't equal a great book when a great author and competent editor are missing.

Here is a similar review from Amazon that I found to be so on point that I am linking to it: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1SDKPE59SW3Y1/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm ( )