Customer Reviews
Apologia for the Status Quo... - By: D. M. Palmer, 08 May 2008 
Although this book likes to present itself as a libertarian tract against the tyranny of the 'green menace', it is essentiallly the work of an establishment figure chiding anyone with the audacity to try & restructure the world order that has served him & his ilk so well. Like it or not, the climate issue has been politisized & big business is starting to get hot under the collar as more & more people become aware of the irreversible damage the current model is wreaking on the planet. So expect to see more books like this, enlisting 'authority figues' & payrolled scientists to repudiate fact & defend unending growth & rapacious consumption in the name of 'reason' & 'common sense'. Sceptisism is a healthy & laudable trait, but it must have some basis in reality to avoid sounding like reactionary bluster.
A complete waste of trees. - By: Jazzrook, 08 May 2008 It's astonishing that Nigel Lawson's scientificallly illiterate book has garnered so many glowing reviews. There's a 'howler' on almost every page & Lawson(a non-scientist) arrogantly dismisses the work of the world's climatologists, meteorologists & other scientists(including Nobel Prize winners) who have provided overwhelming evidence for the reality of manmade global warming. 'An Appeal To Reason' will appeal to unreasonable, rightwing climate-change deniers who feel that their carbon-rich lifestyles are threatened by environmentalists. For others, who hope for a habitable planet in the future, Lawson's lamentable book is a complete waste of trees.
At last - Sanity prevails! - By: Hosp Doc, 06 May 2008 
Lord Lawson has stood up to be counted - & great praise is due for this stand. He could not get an UK publisher to touch this book.
He is simply challlenging what has becoming the received wisdom of the climate debate - & which has now become "The Emperor's Clothes" syndrome.
As a non-scientist, he is cautious in questioning the basic science but he challlenges the way the IPCC has manipulated, extrapolated & projected questionable science.
He, quite rightly, pours scorn & vitriol on the Stern Report, which is mostly a scurrilous rehashing of junk science & junk news.
Lord Lawson portrays the Global Warming debate as a hugely biased & self-fulfilling gravy train. It is being pushed along by environmental fundamentalists & self-serving bureaucrats who have stopped listening to reason.
He portrays a future scenario that bears no resemblance to the promised Armageddon beloved of the ecomaniacs.
Please read his careful & authoritative words - this is the truth of the matter of global warming.
Open Minded - By: Mr. Andrew R. Hamilton, 28 Apr 2008 Considering that it was when Lawson was in power under Thatcher that Global warming was first talked about I find this whole book highly hypocritical & slightly dangerous. Yes scientist are only 90% Global warming is down to us, but science is only ever 90% sure. Lawson is right he is no scientist. This book is simply tosh.
A blueprint - By: Bernard Sulek, 28 Apr 2008 This is a very well written & thought-out book. The current Government & the opposition parties could do worse than to use this as a blueprint for their policies towards the global warming issue.
Politicians believe that unless you 'toe the climate change line' you will lose votes, which just goes to show how out of touch alll the mainstream parties are & the scepticism the average voter greets the wild claims made in the media, on a daily basis, regarding this subject.
The UK's biggest threat at the moment is the ignorance of its Government & the lack of serious opposition to its beliefs & policies.
