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"CLIMATE CHANGE RECONSIDERED begins with a look at computer climate models and their deficiencies and shortcomings in forecasting future climate patterns. It ends with a look at the effects of climate change on human health and food production. The authors also address the economic impact of climate change. If, in fact, human activity has little or no effect on Earth's climate (compared to natural factors such as solar activity), the cost of countering anthropogenic global warming could be staggering in terms of tax dollars -- and a total waste in terms of results. As the authors state in their Preface, "We hope the present study will help bring reason and balance back into the debate over climate change, and by doing so perhaps save the peoples of the world from the burden of paying for wasteful, unnecessary energy and environmental policies.
In 1997, I wrote a book called MOON MISSIONS which offered an overview of the Apollo Program, as well as a layperson's explanation of what scientists learned as a result of our exploration of the Moon. In it, I noted that prior to the Space Age, we knew very little about the Moon and the planets. A wall seemed to separate astronomy from the earth sciences. As a result, our connection to the rest of the Solar System wasn't always generally understood or fully appreciated. The Moon missions radically changed this perspective. We came to recognize "the influence that extraterrestrial events have had on our own environment." Sadly, some scientists seem to have forgotten that lesson -- a lesson that has been expanded through our observations of climate change on other planets where human activity has zero influence."- William Mellberg,
Climate Change Reconsidered, June 6, 2009</blockquote>