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An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
eBook by Glenn Beck
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eBook Description:  FUNNY.OUTRAGEOUS.TRUE. Have you ever wondered why some of the biggest problems we face, from illegal immigration to global warming to poverty, never seem to get fixed? The reason is simple: the solutions just aren't very convenient. Fortunately, radio and television host Glenn Beck doesn't care much about convenience; he cares about common sense. Take the issue of poverty, for example. Over the last forty years, America's ten poorest cities all had one simple thing in common, but self-serving politicians will never tell you what that is (or explain how easy it would be to change): Glenn Beck will (see chapter 20). Global warming is another issue that's ripe with lies and distortion. How many times have you heard that carbon dioxide is responsible for huge natural disasters that have killed millions of people? The truth is, it's actually the other way around: as CO2 has increased, deaths from extreme weather have decreased. Bet you'll never see that in an Al Gore slide show. An Inconvenient Book contains hundreds of these same "why have I never heard that before?" types of facts that will leave you wondering how political correctness, special interests, and outright stupidity have gotten us so far away from the commonsense solutions this country was built on.As the host of a nationally syndicated radio show, The Glenn Beck Program, and a prime-time television show on CNN Headline News, Glenn Beck combines a refreshing level of honesty with a biting sense of humor and a lot of research to find solutions that will open your eyes while entertaining you along the way.
eBook Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc./Simon & Schuster
Fictionwise Release Date: November 2007
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Microsoft Reader ISBN, eReader (recommended) ISBN: 9781416580041
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Chapter 1
Global Warming, Storming, and Conforming THE SKYLINE OF MIAMI is a spectacular sight, but not because of the lights, the sunsets, or even the flesh-covered plastic that's wrapped in bikinis lying on the beaches in the distance. It's the cranes. There are dozens of them. It looks as if every two buildings in the city are divided by one that's under construction, topped with a crane like the star on top of a Christmas tree. It truly is southern Florida's capitalist equivalent of the birth of Christ. In the next few years alone, approximately 100 skyscrapers will be somewhere between the stages of just finished or about to be started—and that's just in downtown Miami. Drive across to Miami Beach or down to Fort Lauderdale, and you'll see similar, if not quite as dramatic, development. Even 60 miles north of Miami, the far-from-fabulous, overly underwhelming oceanfront Briny Breezes trailer park has caught the eye of developers. They offered to buy the land from the 411 Briny Breeze residents for $510 million, a deal that would have made all of them instant millionaires. Of course, South Florida is also a haven for the rich and famous. Lenny Kravitz, Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias, Anna Kournikova, Diddy (or "The Didster," as I call him), Gloria Estefan, Beyoncé, Matt Damon, Calvin Klein, Hulk Hogan, and Rosie O'Donnell are just a few who own houses there. Yes, the overwhelming scientific consensus is that people want to live in Miami. The question is…why? Have they not seen An Inconvenient Truth? Don't they know the risks of global warming? Why are people so passionate about living in a place that will soon be under water? There seems to be an incredible disconnect between what Al Gore says and what people do. Why is that? Some, of course, will blame a mass disinformation campaign (funded by Evil Big Oil) that can only be deciphered by the enlightened 21 percent of Americans who think that greenhouse gases are the most important factor causing global warming. But the truth is that most people never even hear honest questioning on this issue because, when it comes to global warming, dissent has its price. Here are just a few quick highlights of what "the enlightened" say about those who dare to ask logical questions about global warming: A.D.D. MOMENT It may be time to review exactly what the word fascist means, since it's now being constantly thrown around. First of all, I have not killed anywhere near 7 million Jews. In fact, I can't personally remember even killing 1 million. I did drink quite a bit back in the day, but I think I'd remember something like that. Second, one of the key elements of fascism was controlling public thought by using fear to silence dissent. Hmm…which side of the argument is doing that? Those who are encouraging questions and debate or those who refer to the Holocaust when they run into disagreement? I'd say RFK Jr. is a fascist, but I doubt he's killed any Jews either. Let me know if I'm wrong on that one, Bob. Heidi Cullen, climatologist at The Weather Channel, suggested disagreement should mean a loss of meteorological certification: "If a meteorologist can't speak to the fundamental science of climate change, then maybe the AMS shouldn't give them a Seal of Approval." Ellen Goodman, from the Boston Globe, wrote: "Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future." David Roberts, of climate website Grist, wrote: "When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards—some sort of climate Nuremberg." In fact, the Nazi references are quite popular with this crowd; I was even called "CNN's chief corporate fascism advocate" by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. When asked by the Washington Post why I was a fascist (or a fascism advocate), Kennedy said that he recalled that I was "voicing doubts about global warming a few weeks back." How dare I! But the fact is that RFK Jr. "recalled" (translation: some blog told him) incorrectly. I simply asked questions about whether or not man is primarily responsible, which, as you'll see, is an entirely reasonable question. Since I know that I'll be taken out of context and made to say what I don't believe, let me try to make my position perfectly clear. 1. Yes, I think the globe has warmed a bit! Approximately 0.74 degree Celsius (+/– 0.18 degree) in the last 100 years. (0.74 +/– 0.18? Isn't that a 26 percent margin of error?) 2. Yes, I think that man might be responsible for some part of that warming, although I'm not 100 percent convinced of how much (126 percent margin of error). 3. I believe that natural changes are also playing a part in the warming and that the only thing constant about the climate is change. Copyright © 2007 by Mercury Radio Arts, Inc.
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