FALSE ALARM Climate change from a scientific perspective

The climate issue is being discussed at an increasingly high level. In the book "FALSE ALARM - the climate issue from a scientific perspective", Gösta Pettersson, professor emeritus of biochemistry, methodically goes through several of the sub-issues under discussion and provides the reader with information on how he and others view them. The intention is to help the reader in the search for truth in a heated and not always balanced debate.

In recent years, the mass media have fed us almost daily the alarming message that global climate change is underway and could have catastrophic effects. We have been told that the overwhelming majority of the world's climate scientists agree on what is causing and will cause this climate change: The Earth is warming because of our emissions of greenhouse gases in general and carbon dioxide in particular. Unless we drastically reduce CO2 emissions, the world will continue to suffer from natural disasters of all kinds. But it has also become clear that the hypothesis of catastrophic man-made global warming has been strongly criticized on scientific grounds. Skeptical objections have been raised not only by climatologists themselves, but also by geologists, chemists, physicists, astronomers, statisticians and mathematicians.

Gösta's interest in this scientific controversy was seriously aroused when he realized that the criticisms made were justified in problem areas in which he himself specialized as a scientist. He then decided to form his own opinion on the climate issue in its entirety and finally also to present it in book form.The main purpose of this book is to provide those who want to familiarize themselves with the climate issue with basic information about the climatological observations and problems discussed, where the scientific controversies consist, and how Gösta as a scientist reasoned in his attempts to take a position on the controversies.The intention has been that no more than ordinary general knowledge should be required to keep up with the presentation. If you have been following the climate debate for a long time, you probably already know much of what is said in the book.

The title of the book was initially accompanied by a question mark. It was removed along the way with the conviction that the current state of scientific knowledge gives no cause for concern that our greenhouse gas emissions are causing catastrophic climate change. You shouldn't scream "The wolf is coming" as soon as you see a four-legged animal. But above all, the book's title refers to the falsity with which climate alarmists have presented their message to policy makers and the general public, presenting several examples of what must be considered misleading alarmist climate information, and in many cases, deliberately misleading for political purposes. You should definitely not shout "The wolf is coming" when you don't see any animals at all, but just want to discourage people from being outdoors. "Believe those who seek the truth, distrust those who have found it" wrote the novelist André Gide.

This book doesn't provide many definitive answers to the sub-questions raised, but you will learn a great deal about the answer options. The hope is that it will help you in your own search for the truth.