Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.73874560973
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Dutton Adult
Manufacturer: Dutton Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: December 27, 2007
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Sales Rank: 61786
Studio: Dutton Adult

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
From acclaimed writer and physicist Mark Bowen, Censoring Science tells the true story of the Bush administration’s censorship of the world’s preeminent climatologist, and the science behind global warming that they do not want you to know.

The facts don’t lie:
• 2005 was the warmest year since the invention of the thermometer.
• 2006 is on track to become the hottest year ever recorded in the United States.
• The six hottest years on record have occurred in the last eight years, and the twenty-two hottest years on record have occurred in the last twenty-six years.

Preeminent climatologist and leading NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen has been studying climate for over three decades. It was his testimony to a Senate committee in 1988 that first brought the threat of global warming to the world’s attention. In January 2006, news broke that the Bush administration had been attempting to censor Dr. Hansen—obscuring his message and suppressing the vast body of his scientific work, which unequivocally demonstrates the reality and immense danger of global warming.

Now, for the first time and with unfiltered access, writer and physicist Mark Bowen finally tells the exclusive story of Hansen’s decades-long battle to bring the truth about global warming to light. Censoring Science illuminates the real science behind global warming and maintains that we can still prevent environmental disaster, while both strengthening our economy and our national security. In the tradition of Ron Suskind’s blockbuster bestseller, The Price of Loyalty, Censoring Science exposes the truth behind the administration’s spin doctors, and shares the inside story of one of the most important and influential scientists of our time.




Rating: - excellent after the first 100 pages
I would caution the reader not to be discouraged by the first 100 pages which are a detailed account of the back and forth exchange of memos and directives handed down from NASA public relations as they attempted to reign in the scientists from making scientific statements that were interpreted as critical the coal and petroleum industry. Clearly we can solve a lot of our problems by burning NASA PR hacks instead of coal. If however you are employed by a government agency where your work could be ... Read More

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Rating: - Important Story on Suppression of Global Warming Science
I have had the opportunity to hear James Hansen deliver a lecture, and he is truly inspiring to many of us in the environmental field. Certain politicians simply did not want to hear what he had to say about global heating, so they tried to censor his message. A very important story that has finally seen the light of day.

If you've followed general environmental news for the past few years, the revelations within this book may not come as a big surprise, but I still found the actual ... Read More

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Rating: - Extremely tedious but informative.
I struggle trying to decide what to write about this book. On the one hand, large portions of it are extremely tedious to get through and seem like overkill. On the other hand, a few parts are some of the best writing on the global warming issue I have read recently. The book begins with a section that covers about the first half, which is basically an almost blow-by-blow accounting of all sorts of censorship, editing, distortion, and intimidation by political appointees in NASA. I suspect many people ... Read More

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Rating: - The Bad Liquor of Censorship
It used to require bad drugs or hard liquor if one wished to hide from reality and get wasted. Now the federal government quite intentionally shields everyone from frustrating and embarrassing reality. In response to NASA findings, for example, they hire a college failure to correct punctuation, and in so doing, the failure edits scientific papers that are of ultimate consequence and importance. For example, "melting perennial ice and replacement with thinner ice" becomes "melting perennial ice and ... Read More

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Rating: - Administrators Without Conscience!
Living in Phoenix and continually experiencing record-setting temperatures, I don't need another book to remind me of global warming. That, however, was only a portion of the material in "Censoring Science."

The initial focus is on Dr. James Hansen, director of NASA's Climate Research Center for 25 years, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences for ten. Despite over 95% of credible climate scientists agreeing that average temperatures have been climbing at an accelerating, and nearly ... Read More

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