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Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming
Air Con is the new #1 bestseller from international award-winning investigative journalist Ian Wishart, breaking open the global warming debate into easily understood chapters that first explain the latest scientific discoveries and then explain the agenda behind the climate scare. Skeptical environmentalist recently described the groups pushing for action on global warming as "the climate industrial complex," and Wishart's investigations back that up - big business and big Green stand to make billions from climate change by sucking taxes and fees from ordinary householders in the biggest transfer of wealth in world history.
FROM THE BACK COVER: What you are about to read is the most up to date and easy to understand write-up on the global warming debate, and arguably the most important new book you'll read this year. That's because proposed new carbon cuts to be finalised this December are expected to eventually cost each household thousands in extra taxes and fees every year! This is your money - don't you want to be sure the problem is real? Whether you currently believe global warming is caused by humans, or whether you have nagging doubts, you'll find Air Con is a compelling read..
FROM THE BACK COVER: What you are about to read is the most up to date and easy to understand write-up on the global warming debate, and arguably the most important new book you'll read this year. That's because proposed new carbon cuts to be finalised this December are expected to eventually cost each household thousands in extra taxes and fees every year! This is your money - don't you want to be sure the problem is real? Whether you currently believe global warming is caused by humans, or whether you have nagging doubts, you'll find Air Con is a compelling read..
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296 pages, Perfect Paperback
First published May 4, 2009
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About the author
Ian Wishart
47 books19 followersIan Wishart is a multi-award winning investigative journalist and bestselling author of more than 20 books, who's now in his fourth decade in the news business. His writing style has often been compared to John Grisham by reviewers.
He's been a radio News Director, a Chief of Staff for TV3 News and a magazine editor. His work has featured in the Times of London, Daily Mail, New Zealand Herald and America's massive Coast to Coast radio programme - to name a few. His books Totalitaria, Air Con and Vitamin D became Amazon bestsellers worldwide.
While writing his first book, The Paradise Conspiracy, Wishart's TVNZ office was discovered to have been bugged, his home was broken into, the manuscript for the book stolen, and an attempt was made on his life. Needless to say, he survived to write the story.
The first four chapters of The Paradise Conspiracy inspired movie director Geoff Murphy ("Young Guns II", "Under Siege 2") to produce the movie "Spooked" starring Cliff Curtis ("Runaway Jury", "Live Free or Die Hard") in a loose portrayal of Wishart's role as an investigative journalist.
He's been shot at, tear-gassed and stalked, but Wishart says his motivation remains telling the stories that "need to be told", whether its new leads on cold case murders, or government espionage.
As well as writing books, Wishart also divides his time between operating the http://www.investigatedaily.com and http://www.ianwishartpublishing.com websites - the latter catering to his writing and publishing clients.
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August 30, 2011
Lots of good information...shows the climate debate is not over, as the media makes it appear.
November 1, 2016
Best book I ever read. Fully exposed the global warming scandal. GET RECKED POLITICIANS, GET RECKED OBAMA, GET RECKED BERNIE
January 4, 2017
Great book that gets to the truth about climate change
May 6, 2021
I have tried to disregard my personal opinions of the climate change debate in order to give an objective review of the book. Therefore, I cannot give it more than 2 stars as it is not, unfortunately, a very readable book. I struggled through it and I think it is because Wishart tries very hard to justify every statement he makes and instead overcrowds the reader with information, quotes, names etc. which I found very difficult to follow and in fact largely irrelevant to the points he was trying to make. A little judicious editing would have gone a long way here, but the publication of the book seems to have been rushed. He freely admits he was writing the final pages in April 2009, and the book was certainly on the shelves by the middle of the year.
Ian Wishart claims to be objective in his evaluation of the debate, but I found the book infuriating in the sensationalist language used to make his points. He may have been objective once upon a time but it is evident from page 1 on which side of the fence he now sits - which is fine, but this to me is Daily Mail journalism at its worst. Phrases like "The High Priests of climate change" only made me bristle and desperately want to disagree with his viewpoint as he seemed incapable of making a point without being exaggeratedly sarcastic about it.
There are many useful, hard facts in the book and it is for this I have awarded it more than the 1 star that the writing deserves. For example, the evaluation of the long-term CO2 levels in the earth's atmosphere, evidence for (or lack of) glacial melt and discussion of solar activity I found to be extremely compelling evidence for the whole climate change debate to have been overblown. But he spoils his own arguments by talking about the extreme cold of the 2009 European winter and implying this is evidence that global warming is not happening. He himself freely admits we have to look at longer term trends to identify global warming. One cold winter does not constitute a counter argument for global warming.
The final chapters which discuss the motivations for politicians and industry to hype up climate change had the potential to be the most compelling in the whole book but instead became embroiled in strange convoluted arguments about the drug trade and back-alley friendships which seemed to be weakly conveyed. When he implied that supporting a green viewpoint would land Asian children in brothels and the rest of us turning to cannibalism it was clear he had missed the point a bit. But this was, as another reader commented, the most enjoyable part of the book so if you get bored early on, skip to the final chapters.
An interesting argument, poorly packaged. A shame as a better journalist could have made much more of this material.
(One of my old reviews which I am consolidating on Goodreads).
Ian Wishart claims to be objective in his evaluation of the debate, but I found the book infuriating in the sensationalist language used to make his points. He may have been objective once upon a time but it is evident from page 1 on which side of the fence he now sits - which is fine, but this to me is Daily Mail journalism at its worst. Phrases like "The High Priests of climate change" only made me bristle and desperately want to disagree with his viewpoint as he seemed incapable of making a point without being exaggeratedly sarcastic about it.
There are many useful, hard facts in the book and it is for this I have awarded it more than the 1 star that the writing deserves. For example, the evaluation of the long-term CO2 levels in the earth's atmosphere, evidence for (or lack of) glacial melt and discussion of solar activity I found to be extremely compelling evidence for the whole climate change debate to have been overblown. But he spoils his own arguments by talking about the extreme cold of the 2009 European winter and implying this is evidence that global warming is not happening. He himself freely admits we have to look at longer term trends to identify global warming. One cold winter does not constitute a counter argument for global warming.
The final chapters which discuss the motivations for politicians and industry to hype up climate change had the potential to be the most compelling in the whole book but instead became embroiled in strange convoluted arguments about the drug trade and back-alley friendships which seemed to be weakly conveyed. When he implied that supporting a green viewpoint would land Asian children in brothels and the rest of us turning to cannibalism it was clear he had missed the point a bit. But this was, as another reader commented, the most enjoyable part of the book so if you get bored early on, skip to the final chapters.
An interesting argument, poorly packaged. A shame as a better journalist could have made much more of this material.
(One of my old reviews which I am consolidating on Goodreads).
October 24, 2012
Cherry-picked data, deliberately misinterpreted sources (or just sheer stupidity I suppose, who knows), and a large dose of pseudo-science from the get go. There may be truth in the argument, but this guy isn't going to be the one who'll give it to you.
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September 12, 2016DNF a few chapters in because it got a bit too science-y for me. I got the message, though, and it was a good read. I recommend it for anyone wanting to know the truth about the Global Warming theory.
August 16, 2010
A must read
May 1, 2012
LOL REACTIONARIES
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September 11, 2013AMAZING - EVERYONE SHOULD READ!!!
August 26, 2010
Pseudo-science with its own political agenda. Pure tripe.
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