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An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming is a 2008 book by Nigel Lawson. In it, Lawson claims that, although global warming is happening, the science is far from settled. He opposes the scientific consensus as summarized by the IPCC.
- Nigel Lawson
- 2008
Lawson was involved with the climate change denial movement and believed that the impact of man-made global warming had been exaggerated. In 2004, along with six others, Lawson wrote a letter to The Times opposing the Kyoto Protocol and claiming that there were substantial scientific uncertainties surrounding climate change.
Apr 4, 2023 · As a member of the House of Lords Economics Affairs Select Committee, he carried out an inquiry into climate change in 2005 and recommended the Treasury take a more active role in climate policy.
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Jun 19, 2008 · Journeying through the science, politics, economics and ethics of climate change, Lawson challenges head-on the aspects of conventional wisdom that he believes to be flawed, and shines a...
- Sir John Houghton
- 2008
Nov 24, 2009 · The latest edition of Nigel Lawson's controversial bestseller which provides a trenchant critique of climate change policy. In recent years, sensational warnings about climate change have dominated the headlines.
Apr 3, 2023 · Challenging widespread perceptions of a severe threat of global warming, Mr. Lawson published a climate change manifesto in 2008 titled “An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming.”
Apr 3, 2023 · If anything, Lawson’s standing on the Tory right grew in the last decade of his life: he championed Brexit and was a leading sceptic of man-made climate change. Born to a Jewish family,...
