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Stanley Feldman. Global Warming and Other Bollocks
CONTENTS
AUTHOR PROFILES
THE DOOMSDAY VIEW OF THE WORLD
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
Belief, hypothesis and fact
Defining our terms
The germ theory of disease
Causation versus coincidence
This book
CO2 AND GLOBAL WARMING
GLOBAL WARMING
Birth of the greenhouse analogy
A new ice age?
GREENHOUSE GASES
The importance of water
A year without summer
THE HISTORY OF THE ATMOSPHERE
Evidence from ice-core samples
Predicting future global temperatures
Global-warming predictions
Climate modelling
Is the world getting warmer?
How the scare started
Carbon dioxide
IS GLOBAL WARMING MANMADE?
Medieval warming
Equivocal evidence
Evidence for and against human activity as the cause of global warming. For
Against
Conclusion
A final word
THE GLOBAL ICE CAPS
The Arctic ice cap
What about the Antarctic?
THE ECONOMICS OF A WARMER EARTH
Effect on wind and rain
Economic consequences
Energy
Biofuels
Feeding the world
Keeping warm
Floods
Sustainability
Cost
Rio, Kyoto and Bali
CO2 trading
THE EPIDEMIC OF OBESITY AND MATTERS OF HEALTH
GOOD FOODS, BAD FOODS
Healthy lifestyles
Bad foods?
Junk food
Salt
Can food be bad for you?
The food we eat
AN EPIDEMIC OF OBESITY?
Body shape
Corpulence
Is there an ‘ideal weight’?
Ideal weight tables
Measuring obesity
Obesity in childhood
Adverse health effects of obesity
Gross (true) obesity
Hormones and obesity
Harm due to obesity
Prevention and treatment
Conclusions
HEALTH FOODS & SUPER FOODS
Health foods
Physiology and pathology
The adulteration of food
Opposition and objections
Essential ingredients
Freshness
THE FOOD WE EAT
Carbohydrates
Fats
Proteins
Minerals
Water
Vitamins
LABELLING & LEGISLATION
Substances added to food
Toxins already present in food
Food labelling
Understanding food legislation
The supply and distribution of food
Conclusion
WHAT REALLY CAUSES HEART ATTACKS?
A lesson from history
The cholesterol/heart attack story
What really causes coronary heart disease?
The statins
METALS & MYTHS
Metals and health
Mercury
Methyl mercury in seafood
Mercury in dental amalgam
Chelation-challenge tests
Hair analysis
Ethnic remedies and food supplements
Organic foods
Degenerative disease and metals
Summary
THE NEXT GREAT PLAGUE?
What is influenza?
The complexities of influenza A
What are the prerequisites for pandemic influenza?
Modern medicines and influenza
Vaccines
Antiviral drugs
Conclusions
ELECTRICITY AND LEUKAEMIA
Reactions to pylons in the environment
EMFs and fright factors
From Russia – with a good deal of anxiety
The New York blackouts and their aftermath
EMF research and the New York Power Lines Project
Precaution becomes the policy
Science and the development of precautionary policies
GRIDLOCKED BRITAIN: A TRANSPORT POLICY?
INTRODUCTION
A POLICY FOR TRANSPORT?
The background
The 10-Year Plan
Public transport
What have they done?
Has there been anything to cheer about?
Speed on the roads
Sustainable and integrated?
Scheme evaluation
Climate change and emissions
ROAD VERSUS RAIL
Safety
Capacity
Productivity
Vital to the nation?
Fuel and emissions
Social equity
The costs, profits and losses
Capital for the track
Track maintenance
Rolling stock
Signalling
Profits from roads, losses from rail
The dimensions of the national rail and strategic road networks
The costs of conversion
Speed and journey length
The past
The future
LIGHT RAIL, TRAMS & HIGH-SPEED TRAINS
High-speed rail
QUESTIONABLE DOGMA
RECYCLING RUBBISH
UNSUSTAINABLE ARGUMENTS
THE ETHICS INDUSTRY
Ethical products
Foreign policy
Duress and torture
Ethics in hospitals
The nationalisation of morality
GLOBALISATION
A historical perspective?
The good
The bad
The balance
EFFICIENCY OR EFFECTIVENESS?
‘Your call is important to us’
A personal case study
Machines and computers
Exception reporting
POPULATION
Energy and food
The number of people
The limits to population growth
Population size
Family planning
Why limit the size of families?
Abortion
Does population growth matter?
The ethics and morality of population control
WHY DO WE BELIEVE IT?
Governments
Pressure groups
The media
The public
APPENDIX. Global Warming
Greenhouse Gases
The History of the Atmosphere
The Global Ice Caps
The Economics of a Warmer Earth
FURTHER READING. An Epidemic of Obesity
Electricity and Leukaemia
The Next Great Plague
Unsustainable Arguments
Efficiency or Effectiveness?
Population
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