{"id":13094,"date":"2017-11-27T08:16:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T14:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13094"},"modified":"2017-11-27T08:16:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T14:16:20","slug":"book-review-a-global-warming-primer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/11\/27\/book-review-a-global-warming-primer\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: A Global Warming Primer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a primer on the climate change hypothesis, including the basic science from which it starts, and including the basic retorts to the objections raised by the, ah, &#8220;skeptics&#8221;, you could do far worse than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Global-Warming-Primer-Answering-Consequences\/dp\/1937548783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A Global Warming Primer: Answering Your Questions About The Science, The Consequences, and The Solutions<\/em><\/a>, by Jeffrey Bennett. I skimmed it on the way home from Michigan and found it nicely confirmed what I knew, added in more details, derails the skeptics&#8217; objections while noting where knowledge is weak and how error bars are important, and delves into how to resolve the problem without destroying the world economy. All in common English, a few charts, and that lack of hysteria denoting an academic (in this case, a PhD astrophysicist) who&#8217;s here to solve a problem, not defend entrenched interests.<\/p>\n<p>If I had known nothing going in, I would have learned a lot. And, finally, recommended to me by a retired climate scientist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a primer on the climate change hypothesis, including the basic science from which it starts, and including the basic retorts to the objections raised by the, ah, &#8220;skeptics&#8221;, you could do far worse than A Global Warming Primer: Answering Your Questions About The Science, The Consequences, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/11\/27\/book-review-a-global-warming-primer\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13094"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13100,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13094\/revisions\/13100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}