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Red Hot Lies Al Gore U.S. $27.95 Can. $29.95 (continued from front flap) Red Hot Lies Horner Hot Lies Red Chris Horner: “Climate criminal.” —Greenpeace flowing. In the name of “saving the planet,” any- Praise for Red Hot Lies thing goes. LIARS “If I had to choose one global warming skeptic to go mano-a- But why the nasty tactics? Why the cover- Al Gore. ups, lies, and intimidation? Because Al Gore mano against the best of the alarmists in a winner-take-all, rumble-in-the-jungle debate to the death to settle the climate The United Nations. and his ilk want to use big government at the controversy once and for all, my pick would be Chris Horner. Red The New York Times. local, state, federal, and global level to run your Hot Lies shows why. Horner’s astonishing depth and breadth of The global warming lobby, relentless in its life, and they can brook no opposition. But the knowledge is crisply and cleverly articulated and packs amazing push for bigger government, more spending, and actual facts, as Red Hot Lies makes clear, aren’t punch. It’s no wonder the alarmists fear him.” more regulation, will use any means necessary —Steven Milloy, nearly as scary as their fiction. to scare you out of your wits—as well as your tax publisher, JunkScience.com dollars and your liberties—with threats of ris- Red Hot ing oceans, deadly droughts, and unspeakable Praise for Christopher C. Horner future consequences of “climate change.” Christopher C. Horner is and his New York Times bestseller, In pursuing their anti-energy, anti-capi- the author of the New York Times TM bestseller The Politically Incor- The Politically Incorrect Guide to talist, and pro-government agenda, the global rect GuideTM to Global Warming. Global Warming and Environmentalism How Global warming alarmists—and unscrupulous scien- He is a senior fellow at the Com- “Finally, someone has written a definitive resource to debunk Warming tists who see this scare as their gravy train to petitive Enterprise Institute, an global warming alarmism.” Alarmists federal grants and foundation money—resort to acknowledged expert on global Lies —Senator James Inhofe (R.-Okla.), Use Threats, dirty tricks, smear campaigns, and outright lies, warming legislation and regulation, and has testi- former chairman of the abandoning scientific standards, journalistic fied before Senate committees and given numer- Fraud, and Environment & Public Works Committee ous addresses in the European Parliament. Horner Deception How Global Warming Alarmists integrity, and the old-fashioned notions of free was included in Greenpeace’s “A Field Guide to speech and open debate. “Chris Horner has been a staunch champion for common sense to Keep You Climate Criminals” distributed at the UN climate In Red Hot Lies, bestselling author Christo- in the face of mounting media hysteria about the climate.” Misinformed meeting in Montreal in December 2005. —Roger Helmer, Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception pher Horner—himself the target of Greenpeace member of European Parliament dirty tricks and alarmist smears—exposes the to Keep You Misinformed dark underbelly of the environmental move- ment. Power-hungry politicians blacklist scien- tists who reject global warming alarmism. U.S. A Main Selection of the Conservative Book Club senators threaten companies that fund climate- change dissenters. Mainstream media outlets openly reject the notion of “balance.” The occa- sional unguarded scientist candidly admits the ISBN 978-1-59698-538-4 Christopher C. Horner need to twist the facts to paint an uglier picture in order to keep the faucet of government money NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR jacket design: Christopher Tobias Author Photo: Richard Morrison Current Events (continued on back flap) U.S. $27.95 Can. $29.95 Red Hot Lies Red Hot Lies How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed Christopher C. Horner Copyright © 2008 by Christopher C. Horner All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be repro- duced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any informa- tion storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, or broadcast. Cataloging-in-Publication data on file with the Library of Congress ISBN 978-1-59698-538-4 Published in the United States by Regnery Publishing, Inc. One Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20001 www.regnery.com Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Books are available in quantity for promotional or premium use. Write to Director of Special Sales, Regnery Publishing, Inc., One Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001, for information on discounts and terms or call (202) 216-0600. CONTENTS PREFACE vii CHAPTER 1 Media on a Mission: Lies, Distortions, Cover-Ups, and the Reporters Who Push Them 1 CHAPTER 2 Fear and Loathing: Alarmist Scare Tactics, Demonization, and Threats 55 CHAPTER 3 The Establishment Attacks: Woe to Dissenters 89 CHAPTER 4 Stifling Everyone’s Speech: Even Their Own 141 CHAPTER 5 Poisoning the Little Ones: Propagandizing Your Children 181 CHAPTER 6 Big Government: How Government, Politicians, and Alarmists Abuse Power in the Pursuit of Power 209 v vi Contents CHAPTER 7 Stupid Science Tricks: Keeping that Gravy Train Chugging 257 CHAPTER 8 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: The UN’s Four-Alarm Liar 293 CONCLUSION Heretics, Speak Out 339 NOTES 341 INDEX 399 PREFACE Greenpeace Steals My Trash It was spring. Young men’s hearts turned to fancy. And Green- peace started stealing my trash. I noticed that my garbage was getting collected much more effi- ciently than normal—and late the night before it was scheduled to go. I also noticed that soon, the media revealed a secret cabal I orchestrated from my basement. At least, that’s how London’s left-wing Guardian wrote the story, cobbled together from unre- lated, offal-smeared pages plucked from my refuse. If I ever ques- tioned the hippies’ dedication to their cause, no more: in those steamy summer months of mystery trash abductions, I rededi- cated myself to strict obeisance of local requirements to collect the weekly output of my two large breed dogs. “You too!?” howled the amused wife of a White House aide when we realized we both enjoyed the same, selectively hyper-effi- cient, midnight garbage service. Apparently Greenpeace was just certain that her husband, who in fact hardly spoke to me, was part of my cabal. Soon, European Greenpeace franchises were issuing press releases in German about who had lunch with me in Brussels, and spinning phony tales to Spanish newspapers of secret meetings I supposedly had with pretty much anyone they found problematic. vii viii Preface I had arrived. If they would spend so much energy to, well, trash me, I must be important, right? But I soon learned from others that this is standard operating procedure for the global warming industry—which regularly does much worse things. They have tried to ruin careers, blacklisted sci- entists, knowingly spread lies about dissenters, called for the imprisonment of skeptics, and used government pressure to cut off rivals’ funding. One scientist has had the lug nuts on his wheels secretly loosened when publicly voicing his rejection of climate orthodoxy. Threats now regularly issue against individuals, and the broader idea of free thought and expression. Which got me thinking: shouldn’t the public know about this? Are these tactics consistent with the environmentalists’ image as philanthropic, self-sacrificing, earth-lovers? Doesn’t their despera- tion reflect a fundamental weakness in the truth of their arguments and the soundness of their proposals? Wouldn’t the media expose such tactics by the other side? Isn’t it relevant to the debate about global warming that the alarmist side engages in this systematic campaign consisting of intimidation and threats, wheels falling off cars, abuses being inflicted on schoolchildren, demands of censorship, revising his- tory, and telling flat-out lies? Well, yes. People should know. And now they will. CHAPTER 1 Media on a Mission Lies, Distortions, Cover-Ups, and the Reporters Who Push Them “I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is.” Al Gore A STRANGE THING HAPPENED RECENTLY. A shark ate a kangaroo. Here’s the odd part: the media didn’t blame “global warming.”1 Today’s press breathlessly touts any occurrence—no matter how tenuously connected to the weather—as the result of Man- made global warming. A 2007 Reason Foundation paper aptly summarized the media coverage: Global warming causes everything. A brief perusal of stories from the last several years reveals that warming has been blamed for a huge array of problems, including increased teenage drinking, stray cats, poison ivy, and sharks. More seri- ously, global warming has also been blamed for widespread malnutrition and outbreaks of disease, Hurricane Katrina, and the crisis in Darfur.2 1 2 RED HOT LIES Don’t forget impoverished fashion houses,3 hard times for Bulgar- ian brothels,4 and attacks by big cats.5 It causes summer frost in Africa6 and freezing penguin chicks,7 poorly rising bread dough,8 “makes island kids bony, stunted,”9 contaminates transfusion blood,10 and causes more landslides,11 and stronger earthquakes.12 It caused the 2008 salmonella outbreak,13 and an increase
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