The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming: (and Environmentalism) is a book by Christopher C. Horner

Christopher C. Horner

Christopher C. Horner is an attorney in Washington, D.C., a Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and the author of three books on global warming....

, who has appeared on The Daily Show

The Daily Show

The Daily Show , is an American late night satirical television program airing each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central. The half-hour long show premiered on July 21, 1996, and was hosted by Craig Kilborn until December 1998...

, Fox News, Point of View

Point Of View (radio show)

Point of View is a syndicated, daily talkshow heard on Christian and conservative radio stations throughout the continental U.S.A. It was founded by Marlin Maddoux, who was the show's main host until 2003, when the co-host, Professor Kerby Anderson, became the main host, with Penna Dexter as co-host...

, and The Jim Bohannon

Jim Bohannon

James E. "Jim" Bohannon is an American broadcaster who has worked in both television and radio.During the 1980s he was a fill-in for Larry King when King had his popular nighttime national radio program. He also does much work with the Smithsonian Associates...

 Show to promote the work.

Horner is an attorney

Lawyer

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 and does not claim any scientific qualifications. He received his Juris Doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations...

 where he received the Judge Samuel Breckenridge Award for Advocacy. He is a fellow of the Competitive Enterprise Institute

Competitive Enterprise Institute

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is a non-profit think tank founded on March 9, 1984 in Washington, D.C. by lobbyist Fred L. Smith, Jr to advance economic liberty and fight over-regulation by big government...

, and is not to be confused with the environmentalist and filmmaker, Chris Horner

Christopher Horner (director)

Christopher Horner was born in 1955 in Los Angeles. Before graduating high school, Christopher had already studied anthropology and been involved in exchange programs on Hopi Reservations. Graduating from UC Berkeley in 1976 with a degree in architecture and environmental design, Chris accepted a...

 (who, contrarily, has produced films warning of the effects of global warming

Effects of global warming

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.

In the book, Horner states the following:

• Global temperature fluctuation has always occurred in the Earth's past and is nothing new.
• CO₂
  Carbon dioxide
  Carbon dioxide is a naturally occurring chemical compound composed of two oxygen atoms covalently bonded to a single carbon atom...
  
   levels increase after temperature rise.
• Temperature changes align more closely to solar activity.
• Contrary to global warming
  Global warming
  Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...
  
   claims, heat has always benefited life when the Earth
  Earth
  Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
  
   has been warmer in the past.
• The sea level rose approximately one foot in the last century, and, contrary to Al Gore
  Al Gore
  Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....
  
  's claims, the sea level is not predicted to rise more than a foot or two in the next century.
• The Hockey Stick
  Hockey stick controversy
  The hockey stick controversy refers to debates over the technical correctness and implications for global warming of graphs showing reconstructed estimates of the temperature record of the past 1000 years...
  
   graph has been discredited.
• Temperature readings from land-based weather stations are inaccurate, and satellite data should be used instead because it is more uniform.
• During the past decade, temperature rise has leveled off, contrary to predictions by global warming models.

See also

• Climate model
  Climate model
  Climate models use quantitative methods to simulate the interactions of the atmosphere, oceans, land surface, and ice. They are used for a variety of purposes from study of the dynamics of the climate system to projections of future climate...
  
  
• Current sea level rise
  Current sea level rise
  Current sea level rise potentially impacts human populations and the wider natural environment . Global average sea level rose at an average rate of around 1.8 mm per year over 1961 to 2003 and at an average rate of about 3.1 mm per year from 1993 to 2003...
  
  
• Global warming denial
• Politicization of science
  Politicization of science
  The politicization of science is the manipulation of science for political gain. It occurs when government, business, or advocacy groups use legal or economic pressure to influence the findings of scientific research or the way it is disseminated, reported or interpreted. The politicization of...
  
  
• The Great Global Warming Swindle
  The Great Global Warming Swindle
  The Great Global Warming Swindle is a polemical documentary film that suggests that the scientific opinion on climate change is influenced by funding and political factors, and questions whether scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming exists....
  
  

External links

• Christopher Horner interviewed by the Daily Show