Global warming has been described as the mother of all environmental scares. For years the fear of global warming has continued to inspire a series of articles ... » 

Global warming has been described as the mother of all environmental scares. For years the fear of global warming has continued to inspire a series of articles and books. What is the cause of this hysteria?In imagining the future, human beings like to project onto it an exaggerated view of some tendency already evident in their own time. For well over a decade, observers have noticed that the peculiar passion with which many enthusiasts for the man-made global warming thesis argued their case fitted a very recognisable ideological pattern. Blame for the perceived catastrophe that now hangs over the world should be attibuted to the greed and materialism of the richer Western nations in general, and on the USA and the giant corporations in particular. This book is a most perceptive and subtle study of such moods in the collective unconcious, based not on assertion, but on incontrovertible scientific fact.Global warming, this book demonstrates, is a myth. «