Kind of a boring interview. I think John had a muzzle on her promoting the book
http://www.amazon.com/This-Moment-Earth-Todays-Environmentalists/dp/1586484311/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-9791794-9780002?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175579036&sr=1-1
I did like these reviews.
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9 of 21 people found the following review helpful:  Totally Wrong, April 1, 2007
Items in point include: The authors laud Rachel Carson as a far sighted benefactor. Yet her campaign against DDT in her book Silent Spring was not only fallacious but resulted in policies that caused the deaths of millions of people in Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. The first chapters present a wide range of anecdotes about various types of pollutants. Yet these chapters are entirely misleading. Nowhere do the authors present the dose of each pollutant that is harmful to human and/or animal life, the dose that is actually received, and the effects found from the overdosing if any. The authors seem to have no conception that it is the dose that makes the poison. Too much of almost any material can be harmful, including too much water. On page 7 the authors claim "the planet is headed for a crisis". Yet genuine scientists such as Bjorn Lomborg have found that pollution has declined in recent decades. The authors claim that in the case of global warming the almost complete scientific consensus is that human carbon dioxide emissions are causing significant warming of the earth. This assertion is totally wrong. One of the main props behind their assertion is the report of Naomi Oreskes stating that of the 928 scientific articles mentioning "global climate change" since 1973 three fourths supported the human created global warming hypothesis while the rest did not mention it. Oreskes neglected over ninety percent of the scientific papers dealing with climate change. And in actuality her results were wrong. British social scientist Dr. B. J. Peiser found on examination that only 13 of articles (under two percent) actually endorsed human created global warming. A few debunked the concept. Most took no position. On page 122 the authors quote someone named John Holden to the effect that consensus exists because climate skeptics have not explained how earth warming is occurring. Again false. Critics of the human created global warming hypothesis have pointed to the strong relationship between the solar magnetic field and earth temperatures. And there are other factors influencing global temperatures such as water vapor, a greenhouse gas much more abundant than carbon dioxide. The authors on page 120 state: the "earth very probably [is] hotter today than at any time in at least the past one thousand years". This assertion is bunk. Numerous scientists have discovered a Medieval warm period circa 1000AD with earth temperatures several degrees warmer than today. On page 139 the authors state that the United States is the human main carbon dixoide emitter. They do no mention that China is becoming number one and emissions from India are rapidly increasing. And all of humanity has released under one percent of the total atmospheric carbon dioxide. The authors pretend nuclear energy can not substitute readily for hydrocarbon fuels because the nuclear waste problem has not been solved. In actuality the problem has been solved (incorporation into borosilicate glass) but the environmentalists and the politicians beholden to them will not let us proceed with the solution in the United States. These are only some of the errors and misrepresentations in this work. In sum the book is disinformation, not information. To inform himself/herself, the reader needs to go elsewhere. A start would be Christopher Horner The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Ed Hiserodt Underexposed.  Comment (1) | Was this review helpful to you?
 
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8 of 27 people found the following review helpful:  I don't trust the authors!, March 31, 2007
Consider their dwelling places. "The Kerrys own five palatial mansions: a $7-million, 88-acre estate in Fox Chapel, Pa., near Pittsburgh that includes 14 bedrooms, 12 baths, a swimming pool, and a 9-room carriage house; a 12 room, $13-million townhouse on Boston's Beacon Hill; a $12-million beach house in Nantucket; a $15-million ski chalet in Ketchum, Idaho, near Sun Valley, ... and a 23 room, $4.7-million townhouse in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C." (From _Human Events_, August 30, 2004) I'm confident that the Kerrys create a larger "carbon footprint" with their Ketchum compound alone than I do with my Idaho hovel, and I live here all year 'round! Furthermore, they're not getting from place to place in public transportation, or a Prius, but rather a Gulfstream V jet. What's next? A book by David Duke on diversity? A tome by Bill Clinton on faith and fidelity in marriage? Like Al Gore, the Kerrys are obviously shameless posers. Amazingly, the partisan supporters of both Gore and Kerry are perfectly happy to give 'em a pass. These celebrity enviro-preachers are somehow exempt from doing anything in a personal way. They've fulfilled their personal obligations to the environment, by preaching The Word to the unwashed masses, and telling everybody else what to do. I'll take my advice, and get my inspiration, from somebody who's in the game, rather than a sidelines-stander. And I don't think I'll be reading this book. Comments (2) | Was this review helpful to you?
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16 of 90 people found the following review helpful: Politicians and Science ??, March 29, 2007
Unfortunately, the 'New Environmentalists and Their Vision' is often an obvious, or even subtle statement of political philosophy as much as taking sides with one group of scientists and disbelieving another group. It seems strange that another self-proclaimed 'New Environmentalist' Al Gore claimed loudly that George Bush 'deceived this country, he played on our fears' due in part to Bush's reliance on one group of intelligence experts over another group of experts. A clear parallel should be seen by any careful student of history that Al Gore, and now John Kerry, are relying on one group of experts and ignoring another group, and they are equally guilty of engaging in a deception and an effort to play on our fears. Not that long ago concern was over the permafrost layer moving south, and predictions of another ice age. Even further back in history, grapes were being grown on Greenland, when the earth was warmer. Now try to grow grapes on Greenland. If we buy into the 'New Environmentalists' and ignore the more obvious problems like overpopulation, or radical religious groups trying to destabilize the western world, it would be like dealing with a medical problem by altering the X-ray, or changing the diagnosis to promote an alternative treatment program. Beware of liberal politicians promoting their vision of the future. Comments (5) | Was this review helpful to you?
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