So upset they issued a press release. That’ll show ’em. Funny how they couldn’t delineate the title of the book in the text.
You can get the full story here at Marketwatch. But I see this as a rousing endorsement, likely to have the same opposite intended effect as the review by Dr. Peter Gleick on Amazon that backfired so badly on him when commenters pointed out he didn’t have any facts to back up his vitriol and many suspect he never actually read the book before writing a review. Dr. Gleick still has an open opportunity here to tell his side of the story on WUWT as I offered him a guest post slot on Judith Curry’s blog. So far silence in my inbox.
People are now buying the book in droves thanks to Gleick’s review saying on WUWT and Curry’s that they wouldn’t even have considered it until the fight broke out over his review.
Here are some other reviews:
Blooming brilliant. Devastating” – Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist
“…shines a hard light on the rotten heart of the IPCC” – Richard Tol, Professor of the Economics of Climate Change and convening lead author of the IPCC
“…you need to read this book. Its implications are far-reaching and the need to begin acting on them is urgent.” – Ross McKitrick, Professor of Economics, University of Guelph
Donna writes on her blog:
Two editions of my IPCC exposé are now available.
The Kindle e-book is here – at Amazon.com for the reasonable price of $4.99 USD.
UK readers may purchase it for £4.88 from Amazon.co.uk here.
German readers can buy it from Amazon.de for EUR 4,88.
French readers may buy it at the same price here at Amazon.fr.
If you don’t own a Kindle you can read this book on your iPad or Mac via Amazon’s free Kindle Cloud Reader – or on your desktop or laptop via Kindle for PC software.
Digital option #2 is a PDF – also priced at $4.99. Formatted to save paper, it’s 123 standard, printer-sized pages (the last 20 of which are footnotes). Delivered instantly, it avoids shipping costs and is a comfortable, pleasant read.
A 250-page paperback edition priced at $20 should be available by the end of next week from Amazon.com – which ships internationally.
Amazon has posted a sample of the book that extends well into Chapter 7. Click here to take a peek.
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Lets hope more people investigate the influence of WWF, Greenpeace and others on what the IPCC publishes
They didn’t read the book, either. It’s not about climate change denial. Plus, the second paragraph in the press release is grammatically nonsense. They must have been so rattled that they forgot how to write English. Atta Go, Donna! You gave them a drubbing.
Thanks Anthony
You can always tell when you are exposing truths that some would like to keep concealed, as the hysterical responses become, um, more hysterical. In Australian parlance like stirring up a bullants nest, angry and over excited to say the least!
I tried finding the press release at a WWF site via Google news. No luck. Pity this story didn’t bother to provide a link. Perhaps Marketwatch got an early leak via Email.
OTOH, Donna’s book is getting a fair amount of attention on the net, so that ‘s good.
So they can spell “ludicrous”. Big deal.
As always , you can rely on the ideologically opposed to be the best advocates. It was like when here is Australia , the Ex PM Kevin Rudd used to spruke at every chance that “Tony Abbot (opposition leader) reckons climate change is crap” and couldn’t understand why the opposition leader increased in popularity.
Okay Josh, have at it. The WWF (choose the polar bear or the panda) has its hand in the IPCC cookie jar and can’t extract it easily because it has a grasp on too many climate cookies (cooked up assertions) and though caught in the act still shouts out its innocence. A witness will say something like “You keep using the word ludicrous. I do not think you know what that word means.”
I am currently read on my Droid X, using the Kindle App. Very readable, keeps readers turning the page.
Because of Dr. Gleick’s rousing “anti-endorsement, I bought the pdf.
Excellent read and thanks Doc.
This is great!! The more argument, the more copies of this excellent book will be read.
A masterpiece!
“WWF Climate Witness Scheme”
Doesn’t the word “scheme” imply something is not on the up & up?
The Lucis Trsust has spawned many subsidiary companies including “World Goodwill”
From Dark Majesty, by Texe Marrs, pp. 139-40
The Secret Brotherhood has developed the social and political art of networking to a fine science. World Goodwill, in
its newsletter of 1986, No. 2, listed a number of groups that have participated in its World Service Forum. Such
groups include those that are connected with World Goodwill’s centers in London, New York, and Geneva. The list is
absolutely mind-boggling in its scope. In London, groups that have actively participated include the United Nations
Association, the Teilhardt Center, the International Broadcasting Trust, the Buddhist Society, the Scientific
and Medical Network, St. James’ Church (Piccadilly), Emerson College , International Health Research Network,
Habitat International Council, the Schumacher Society, the New Economics Foundation, World Health
Organization, Peace Through Unity, the British Holistic Medical Association, the *****World Wildlife Fund,***** and
World College.
In the middle of reading Donna Laframboise’s book at present. It’s very readable and well researched. I strongly agree with Ross McKitrick’s comments which you quote above (“…you need to read this book. Its implications are far-reaching and the need to begin acting on them is urgent”). Ms Laframboise ably exposes the unreliable and misleading “reporting” by the IPCC which forms the basis for the United Kingdom government committing its people to the expenditure of £ 2million per hour.
People like Peter Gleick who live in a goldfish bowl and are apparently unaware of the nature of the real world may be forgiven when their strenuous attempts to undermine and hopefully destroy Donna’s new book have the completely opposite effect. WWF on the other hand are one of the world’s largest propaganda organisations. They have access to billions, are staffed by professional media /PR types in their hundreds. There is nothing the don’t know about getting their message across. That being the case, it is odd that they should decide to emulate Dr. Gleick and pile in, which will only serve to promote the book’s sales still further. I’m not complaining of course, just curious. I think “The Delinquent Teenager” should have finished downloading on my wife’s Kindle by now so I will go off and read it.
I notice they use the word “ludicrous,” instead of the word “false.” Which suggests that they can’t actually disprove anything in the book.
Good old Gandi’s quote comes in again and again! “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
CoalsOfFire,
I have a very clear image in mind of a drawing or painting of a bear cub with one paw in either a beehive or a honey pot. It likely dates to before WW2, possibly even 19th century One would only need to add a caption.
Mike Bromley the Kurd says:
October 24, 2011 at 5:54 am
“They didn’t read the book, either. It’s not about climate change denial.”
Congrats for being the first to take the words out of my mouth Mike! Obviously they never read it! My how they are wriggling and the one thing that they do not get is that we wear the badge of “Denial” with honour!
11.Gary Pate says:
October 24, 2011 at 6:46 am
“WWF Climate Witness Scheme”
Doesn’t the word “scheme” imply something is not on the up & up?
***Soon, I expect we’ll start to see scientists entering the Climate Witness Protection Program.
An op ed to be sure, but it rings true: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/cult_of_global_warming_is_losing_influence
Their charges of ludicrous are risible.
Too many ludicrous’sssss seem to indicate panic and confusion.
One more and I am out…..Donna, you have made the Da Vinci Code upset look like a night out at the Comedy Store, bless you for you research!
Now…….I want to know how these organizations can still be recognized as charities and claiming the tax breaks they get? Time to hit them in the pocket? How much are they making?
The reviews on Amazon have attracted another activist (in addition to Peter Gleick) whose financial future is assuredly linked to propagating the myth of dangerous man-made global warming. In the link below we can see that Dr. Mark Boslough, Physicist at Sandia Labs “has turned his attention to climate change as a looming national security threat.” His attention seems to be focused squarely on attacking “denialists”.
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/mann_bites_dog_why_climategate_was_newsworthy
Mark Boslough wrote a scathing review (probably without having read the book) filled with ad hominems and then attacked on all the those who criticized his review.
I cannot see how Dr Boslough’s extremist view of “climate change as a looming national security threat” could possibly be consistent with the tenets of the CSI (Committee for Skeptical Inquiry) here – http://www.csicop.org/about/about_csi/
Kind of obvious that someone who’s first language isn’t english wrote the press release but the the choice of words (my emphasis) in one place “WWF’s climate witness scheme” is hilarious.
Scheme has a very negative connotation as a verb and it isn’t much improved as a noun with the second most common definition being:
scheme n. A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
Possibly a Freudian slip? You be the judge. LOL