Ian Plimer
Auteur de Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science
A propos de l'auteur
Ian Plimer, twice winner of Australia's highest scientific honor, the Eureka Prize, is professor in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at The University of Adelaide and is author of six other books written for the general public in addition to more than 120 scientific papers.
Crédit image: Picture by 'Barrier Daily Truth', Broken Hill (www.bdtruth.com.au)
Œuvres de Ian Plimer
A journey through stone : the Chillagoe story, the extraordinary history and geology of one of the richest mineral… (1997) 6 exemplaires
How to Get Expelled from School: A Guide to Climate Change for Pupils, Parents and Punters (2012) 5 exemplaires
Minerals and rocks of the Broken Hill, White Cliffs and Tibooburra districts : a guide to the rocks and minerals of the (1994) 2 exemplaires
Heaven and Earth 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1946-02-12
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Australia
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Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 13
- Membres
- 292
- Popularité
- #80,152
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 9
- ISBN
- 18
Those reviews were was enough to convince me to put the book down, and instead look for books written by people who do actual climate science, and without links and conflicts of interest with coal mining operations.
For example, one review from Sourcewatch (ref: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ian_Plimer#Conflicts_of_interest) pointed out and documented numerous errors and misrepresentations in Plimer's book. They noted that Plimer's denialist book on global warming was published in 2009 and sold about 20,000 copies in Australia and a similar amount in the USA. The book was universally panned by scientists as full of errors and even accused of plagiarism. One reviewer, Ian Enting, compiled an extensive "list of errors" for the book (Ian Plimer’s ‘Heaven Earth’—Checking the Claims) which makes for an interesting review for anyone interested in proving the point.
After the publication of his book met with harsh criticism from The Guardian's George Monbiot, who derided the book, saying that "Since its publication in Australia it has been ridiculed for a hilarious series of schoolboy errors, and its fudging and manipulation of the data". Plimer and Monbiot eventually crossed swords on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation program Lateline in December, 2009. The video showed Plimer obfuscating, refusing to answer questions, and clearly discomforted when his erroneous scientific statements about global warming were directly challenged. Peter Jackson of the Canadian paper, The Telegram, summarised the debate as follows: "For Plimer, it was an unmitigated disaster. He fudged and distracted at every turn like a senile old goat. In the end, he refused to answer a single question put to him by Monbiot or the moderator. His credibility - and that of his book - withered away into oblivion."… (plus d'informations)