The inquisition of climate science / James Lawrence Powell.

New York : Columbia University Press, [2011], ©2011.

x, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Science and potemkin science -- Adventure in Denierland -- The evidence for consensus -- Discovery of global warming -- The greenhouse effect : from curiosity to threat -- Globalwarming: all you really need to know in one chart -- Tobacco tactics: the scientist-deniers -- Fear of state: the nonscientists -- Toxic tanks -- An industry to trust -- Balance as bias: how the media missed "the story of the century" -- Science under attack -- Greatest hoax in history -- Climategate: much ado about nothing -- Anatomy of denial -- Escalating tactics -- Earning trust.

Includes bibliographical references and index.