Dad, Why Are You A Global Warming Denier?: A Short Story That’s Right for the Times

by Bob Tisdale

I penned the following short-story, set in the year 2017, as a series of conversations between a twentysomething daughter and her mid-50s father. The father is a heretic of the church of catastrophic human-induced global warming/climate change. The daughter, Anna, is a believer. This work includes quotes from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and a well-respected politician. It also includes 22 illustrations, most of which are in color. And there are hyperlinks for those of you using Kindle readers where hyperlinks will work.

123 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 5, 2018

Reviews

[Jim Hunter · Rating 5 out of 5]

The More You Learn

Interesting format for describing a complex subject.
While it serves to reinforce the opinions of those skeptical of climate change orthodoxy, I am afraid it will do little to change closed minds...

[Buddha6 · Rating 5 out of 5]

First Rate

Excellent treatment of the failure of totalitarian climate comrades to actually apply the the time tested and accepted scientific.method with regard to climate "predictions".

Proof that "climate change" is not about actual science but rather the imposition of Marxist control over society.

I'm certain that all of the climate hacks see themselves, down the road, as the nouveau climate nomenklatura.

[Michael A. Simmons, Sr. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loaded with data!

A good book, written conversationally, that demolishes the so called "settled science" of the global warming mavens. Loaded with data it looks at each facet of the climate change myth that is being foisted upon a gullible public. Highly recommended!!

[Kevin Dee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting presentation

I thought this discussion was presented in a unique and learnable manner. The point I have taken away from this and other texts on climate is that the science does not match the message. I understand the media and political agendas can be hard to combat but surely there is a way to find a path to the truth.

[Reader852 · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very poorly written, Misquoted. Even with El Niño, this summer is still the hottest on record, and recent trends do play a part.

[Jo · Rating 1 out of 5]

Have you always missed having a father who expounds on topics he doesn't understand in a condescending tone while randomly throwing in digs against well-functioning political systems that he just happens to personally disagree with when it's totally unrelated to the point at hand? Then get your fill of it here!!

I grabbed this book for a dollar without paying any attention as a gag gift for my father, who does at least understand some of the science behind climate change, but still kind of has a "no big deal attitude". Before I realized what it was. Which is: hot garbage.

Some other reviews said it has "lots of data". Well no, compared to the hundreds and hundreds of recent scientific articles that experts in the field have read (I'm in a tangentially related field), it has almost none. Just a few cherry picked graphs from a couple of the myriad aspects of this complex phenomenon. And it is not using this data well, but giving a small dash of inane commentary on the data, amidst the ideological rambling.

This reads like a poorly educated man drank a bit too much and decided to spew off his unfounded ideas in the format of a father-daughter fantasy where he can live out being the wise sage to the ditsy offspring he always wanted.

The reference list is all just websites. For a book claiming to comment on science, you would expect at least a handful of scientific articles to be referenced.... But it definitely sounds as if he's never even read one.

All that said, it will be a fabulous piece of confirmation bias for anyone who feels the need to support their worldview of choice with a written text, regardless of credibility. For me, it was the only book I ever disposed of.