Not just one book this week, but TWO. As it's Climate Week I thought I'd treat you all to a selection of our climate related books.
Let Them Eat Carbon, by Matthew Sinclair
Ordinary people are paying a ruinous price for the attempts politicians make to control greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change policies dramatically raise electricity bills, make it much more expensive to drive to work or fly abroad, put manufacturing workers out of a job and put pounds on the cost of a weekly shop. Climate change is big business. Much of the money so-called green policies cost us goes straight into the pockets of a bewildering range of special interests. Around the world, companies are making billions out of the schemes governments have put in place, saying they will curb global warming and protect us from the threat of climate change. There is little evidence that those policies are an efficient way to cut emissions. They simply do not represent good value and the public is right to be sceptical. In Let Them Eat Carbon Matthew Sinclair looks at the myths perpetuated by the burgeoning climate change industry, examines the individual policies and the potentially disastrous targets being put into place by ambitious politicians, and proposes a more realistic alternative.
N.B. Let Them Eat Carbon is currently on special offer, at £4.99!
Watermelons, by James Delingpole
If global warming isn’t real then how come the ice caps are melting? Why would all the
world’s top scientists lie to us? What exactly is so wrong with biofuels, wind farms, carbon taxes, sustainability and preserving scarce resources for future generations? And what about Bangladesh, the drowning Maldives and all those endangered polar bears? James Delingpole has all the answers – and they’re not the ones Al Gore would like you to hear. In Watermelons, Delingpole tells the shocking true story of how a handful of political activists, green campaigners and voodoo scientists engineered the world’s biggest, most expensive and destructive outbreak of mass hysteria – one that threatens the very fabric of Western Civilisation. As the world stands on the brink of a new Great Depression, Delingpole’s message could not be more timely or urgent. In order to save our planet must we really surrender to the green movement’s misanthropic tyranny? Or might there be a better way?