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159. For a representative complaint about the IPCC from a “skeptical”
perspective, see the discussion of Christopher Landsea's experience as a
contributor to the second IPCC report (1995) in Lawrence Solomon,
he
Deniers: The World-Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming
Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud
(R ichard Vigilante Books, 2010),
29-36. For a complaint from those who argue the IPCC is too cautious,
see the account of new assessments of the Greenland ice sheet by R ichard
Schlesinger and others in Fred Pearce,
With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists
Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
(Boston: Beacon Press, 2007), 39-45,
145-46; see also Glenn Scherer, “Eight examples of where the IPCC has
missed the mark on its predictions and projections,” The Daily Climate,
December 6, 2012, htp://www.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2012/12/
ipcc-prediction-fact-check.
160. For a representative statement, see R ichard S. Lindzen, “Resisting Climate
Hysteria: A Case Against Precipitous Climate Action,” htp://www.quadrant.
org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2009/07/resisting-climate-hysteria.
161. See the IPCC Third Assessment Report, Working Group I: The Scientific
Basis, Summary for Policymakers, page three, initial portal available at
htp://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc_tar/, and the IPCC Fourth
Assessment Report, Working Group I: The Scientific Basis, Summary
for Policymakers, Understanding and Atributing Climate Change,
htp://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/spmsspm-
understanding-and.html.
162 . Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling, Jr.,
Climate of Extremes: Global
Warming Science They Don' t Want You to Know
(Washington, D.C.: Cato
Institute, 2009), 195-209.
163. For a discussion of both efforts, see James Hoggan,
Climate Cover-up: The
Crusade to Deny Global Warming
(Berkeley: Greystone Books, 2009), 31-87.
164. Hoggan,
Climate Cover-up
, 81.
165. For another, particularly devastating treatment of these corporately funded
efforts to discredit climate change science, see George Monbiot,
Heat: How
to Stop the Planet from Burning
(Cambridge, Massachusets: South End Press,
2009), 20-42.
166. Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway,
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of
Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
(New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2010).
167. On Luntz, see Hoggan,
Climate Cover-up
, 72; on Ex xon, see Hoggan, 84.
168. President George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January
23, 2007, htp://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/
releases/2007/01/20070123-2.html.
169. Hansen,
Storms of My Grandchildren
, 55.