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Here is a book with a twist – an eco gone rogue and self modified into a climate change “denier”. His experience parallels many, actually, including some of mine (though I’d never join Greenpeace, UPDATE: and now after having read his Kindle book, I’ll point out that I believe that CO2 has some effect, but far less than has been claimed, especially where feedbacks operate) – Anthony
From the description:
Paul Caruso once lived in an off-grid eco-community, grew much of his own food and was an active member of Greenpeace. However, over the past few years he has lost his faith in human induced climate change and become a denier!
He doesn’t really deny that the climate is changing – he has just come to the conclusion that it is natural variation.
It seems that increasing numbers of people are becoming sceptical about the human induced part of global warming and this book attempts to show climate scientists why and, perhaps more importantly, what they can do about it.
There are certain specific points that climate scientists are not currently answering and which they urgently need to answer if they want to convince people.
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“…specific points that climate scientists are not currently answering.”
Gosh, ya think?
Here is a further description:
You can get the book on Amazon here
h/t to reader Paul M
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I’m pretty sure claiming to want to be convinced it’s true is just an argument tactic, like Roger said. Caruso is showing himself to not just be a new found climate denier, he seems to have become quite the capitalist. $4 for 71 virtual pages?
Paul Caruso’s “conversion” demonstrates some people can only hold their breath and believe in the tooth fairy for so long. Fortunately, many people reach this point by about 6-7 years of age…
Re: ” (though I’d never join Greenpeace)”
I joined Greenpeace for a couple of years in the late 1970s, when their primary mission was to get Japan and the USSR to stop hunting whales. When mission creep set in, they lost me. The straw that broke the camel’s back was when they sent me an appeal letter with a return envelope with an actual USPS first class stamp on it, rather than no postage or permit reply mail. I figured any caritable non-profit that can waste that much money doesn’t need mine.
Quinn says:
October 30, 2013 at 1:32 pm
Interesting that you were a member of Greenpeace about the same time as I was – when they seemed tp have an actual environmental focus. They also lost me when their focus turned to activism with no science background. They became a business. They went from a local organization started in a basement in Vancouver to an organization that can spend multi-millions on protest ships. And they scream about the Koch brothers.
Mickey Reno says:
October 30, 2013 at 10:37 am
… I’m aware of no scientific treatise that tests THIS hypothesis and shows it to be incorrect. If anyone knows of any attempts, I’ appreciate a pointer, please.
That’s because among other issues, “our climate” could not exist in the absence of life. The atmosphere we breath is not in chemical equilibrium. Free oxygen for example could exist in the amounts present in the earth’s atmosphere without life. We’ld look a good deal more like Mars, very likely nearly as cold for longish terms as well. At present the planet is near the coldest it has been in the entire Phanerozoic. More serious than either “believing” or “disbelieving” in any given hypothesis, the “geoengineering” ideas being bruited to reverse global warming as a precaution are worrisome, very.
Caruso needs to see our chum Lewandowsky pretty quick – the diagnosis should be interesting!
Deadman said @ur momisugly October 30, 2013 at 11:43 am
You made that up you neologist :-)))
I am still looking for a bio / CV on the book’s author Paul Caruso. I tried locating his bio on Google and I tried to locate both a FB and Twitter contact for Paul Caruso. No luck.
Anyone else have info?
John
I got a song for Caruso.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=aiGg8D4hFLc&vq=medium
TinyCO2 said @ur momisugly October 30, 2013 at 9:11 am
The Git once visited one of those websites that enable you to calculate your “carbon footprint”. Much to his surprise, he discovered that his was rather larger than he thought. The Git grows his own organic food rather than buying it. He grows his own trees rather than paying someone else to do so. He purchase new clothes rather than second-hand from the op shop. Have you ever seen second-hand overalls in an op shop?
While his scepticism on-line has often enough aroused the ire of CAGWers, only rarely has this been so among his friends and acquaintances. Mostly I guess that this is because I’m not evangelical about my beliefs. A fully paid-up CAGWer and scientist who is a particular friend, when invited to debate the issue, declined on the basis that The Git knew far more about climatology than he did.
BTW, the “Good Life” is the good life for those of us living it. It’s why we chose to live it. A survey conducted back in the 70s showed 32% of the population preferred rural life, and only 16% preferred big city life.
Bob said @ur momisugly October 30, 2013 at 2:47 pm
This is Paul Caruso:
…though he’s rather dead I’m afraid.
Almost all of us were believers of CAGW at some stage, but have seen the light. We have seen through the sea of lies and the further we all look, the deeper the sea of deception(so that is where the missing heat magically disappeared to.) Our mission is to spread the word and get others to see through the tactics so eloquently spelled out by PSalmon. These are the tactics of the Left as well as habitual liars, who know that the truth is their mortal enemy. Hitler realized this too.The cost is outrageously high to read just one person’s path to enlightenment. We all have a story to tell. Perhaps we need a separate thread so we can write in our moments of enlightenment. With luck, someone smarter than myself can use this collection of triggers to come up with a good strategy to get in to the thick heads of those in la-la land.
John F. Hultquist says:
October 30, 2013 at 12:18 pm
“born and raised
converted to a green type
off-grid and active member of GP
changed views
searched for years for evidence of CO2 link
written a book
Seems Paul is both quite old and a slow learner.”
It’s the Ganja that does that. Blocks transmission of contents from short term to long term memory.
Hmm, California’s future will be interesting… They’ll be excited over each new iPhone, forgetting that it’s the same thing as the last time…
Deadman says:
October 30, 2013 at 11:43 am
“For Naomi Klein, sadly, and for others at the New Statesmen who wish project all their dislike of ordinary folk onto evil capitalism, “science is telling us all to revolt”.
Yep, science—not activists with a misanthracist grudge and a delightfully profitable cause, but science itself—would tell us, by way of its licensed hierophants, that “carbon reduction must be managed carefully through what Anderson and Bows describe as ‘radical and immediate de-growth strategies in the US, EU and other wealthy nations’.””
Luckily for Naomi, US and EU do pursue rather effictive anti-growth strategies. Why isn’t she dancing in the streets? Oh and Global Warming stopped and she climbs on that bandwagon now?
Is she giving her books away for free, being the anti capitalist that she is?
Does she refuse to market her products, being against the Shock Doctrin of marketing?
No and No? Dang, she’s stupid, bitter and a liar, I’m so disappointed.
Hope she at least gets Franny “exploding schoolkids” Armstrong to direct her mockumentary.
Return Of No Pressure; could make The Wheel Of The Worst!
( http://www.redlettermedia.com for those who don’t know. )
How to Cure a Climate Change Denier
Setting aside the stupid insult of ‘denier ‘ the answer is easy , practice good science, stick to the scientific method , let the data speak for itself and stop the sdo-relgions BS .
However , that would mean the AGW gravy train coming right off the rails to the carnage of some but to the joy of many. So the chances of these turkeys voting for Christmas is ?
DirkH said @ur momisugly October 30, 2013 at 3:22 pm
And the NSAIDs some of us old folks take for arthritic pain cause heart attacks. Which would you prefer?
The UN has already started up another franchise to scare us to global government….. meteor impacts Read about it in the LA Time…and elsewhere.
Downloaded it to my Kindle and read it this evening – it’s quite short, more an extended pamphlet – about 70 pages if it were a printed book. I didn’t get the impression that he really wanted to be (re-)convinced that AGW has a scientific basis – I think that’s just a rhetorical flourish. Apart from some rather superficial points and a few unconvincing analogies that I cringed at (like a group of naked people in a greenhouse after dark trying to create a sauna by breathing out CO2), overall the book’s on the money – he makes the same points that most of us here are making day and daily. He includes a link to WUWT, which he commends as a good source of information. Maybe a book to recommend to a warmist who’s beginning to have doubts.
I believe the usual explanation is, “CO2 causes the earth’s temperature to rise because SHUT UP!”
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Brian Davis,
Thank you for the book review.
Was any additional biographic info on Paul Caruso provided in the book other than being formerly a member of Greenprace?
Personally, I would like get a more clear understanding of his level of sincerity in his story of being a newly skeptical and enlightened pilgrim from CAGW land. Therefore I am trying to get corroboration of his sincerity from any contemporaneous blog postings of his?
John
Its possible to lament knowledge, I am taken back to a time when my son first learned that santa claus was not real and said to me, but daddy I want to believe in Santa. Of course he could never really do that, the spell was broken forever, but it shows that the child in you wants to believe and one must become an adult to advance to scepticism.
John, I’m afraid he says nothing more in the book about himself than you already know. I’m sure you’re right to be a little suspicious of exactly who he is and what he was doing previously.
Considering the billions of people on Earth who believe in complete nonsense, I’d say yes, they are just apparently looking for something to believe in.
Brian Davis says:
October 30, 2013 at 4:30 pm
Downloaded it to my Kindle and read it this evening – it’s quite short, more an extended pamphlet – about 70 pages if it were a printed book. I didn’t get the impression that he really wanted to be (re-)convinced that AGW has a scientific basis – I think that’s just a rhetorical flourish. Apart from some rather superficial points and a few unconvincing analogies that I cringed at (like a group of naked people in a greenhouse after dark trying to create a sauna by breathing out CO2), overall the book’s on the money – he makes the same points that most of us here are making day and daily. He includes a link to WUWT, which he commends as a good source of information. Maybe a book to recommend to a warmist who’s beginning to have doubts.
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Fair enough and good luck to him – I just get twitchy when reactions don’t feel right to me, but of course everyone is different. Call me jaded. 🙂
temp says:
October 30, 2013 at 9:49 am
I like your analogy. Yes, Greens recognizing reality is like a computer dividing by zero. Apparently, some of the Lefties are getting therapy and making adjustments. I was listening to Diane Rehm on NPR (temporarily stuck on campus) and she introduced her next topic as follows: How will the monarchy of Saudi Arabia adjust to Saudi women demanding the right to drive and the cold diplomatic winds that are now blowing from the US?
Quite a solution, huh? You just switch between topics as you watch the bouncing memes.