Review of Inconvenient Facts, Part 1 - CO2 & Paleoclimate
This is part 1 of a two part book review. A few years ago, a man named Gregory Wrightstone appeared in several of the Facebook groups I participate in. He participated in debates with other members over issues related to climate change, frequently using graphs that he had made. It turns out he was working on a book, and as best I can tell, he was testing his content in debate groups to hear objections to his claims before self-publishing the book. That's a bit of speculation on my part, but I noticed that his book sometimes was changed from what he had posted in the discussion groups, and I like to think that he altered his arguments as a result of conversations with others. He self-published his book under the sufficiently political title, Inconvenient Facts: The Science Al Gore Doesn't Want You to Know .[1] The not-so-subtle implication here is that Al Gore misrepresented the facts and science of climate change and doesn't want you to be informed, but Mr. Wrightstone is...