Grant R. Jeffrey

Imagine a conspiracy so vast that it involves the leaders and political establishments of the world's nations, as well as the most prominent scientists from throughout the globe. Their evil plan is to take control of the planet and establish a Marxist (sic) regime that will enslave the world's peoples. And to promote these goals, they have promulgated a terrible lie -- claiming that the earth's climate is rising due to human activity and that this climate change must be dealt with before it show more threatens us all. You might think this the stuff of wacky, late- night sci -fi television, or the paranoid delusions of conspiracy advocates. Perhaps, but it is also believed by a substantial percentage of the US populace, and clearly by the author of The Global-Warming Deception.

Grant Jeffrey's book attempts to promote these claims in order to advance a religious agenda. The author (now deceased) was a Bible teacher and television preacher, not a scientist, and thereby unqualified to write a book on this subject. To no great surprise, his book is a political screed, written without a logic or consistency, and worst of all, one that is scientifically illiterate. Outlining its misconceptions and outright distortions would take another book. Suffice to say, readers seeking a temperate, sober examination of the evidence for and against anthropogenic climate change should seek elsewhere. The Global-Warming Deception will be convincing only to those whose minds are already made up, and those seeking ammunition for their arguments.

What if the world's scientists are right? What if global climate change (and the rapid melting of Antarctica) will cause a catastrophic rise in ocean levels in the next few decades, drowning coastal cities worldwide? Surely we owe it to our descendants to examine the evidence? This book will be of no help to those seeking a dispassionate investigation of the issues and their implications, and is not recommended. show less

As a staunch environmentalist, I chose to read this book as an opposing viewpoint. Even if I hadn't started with the introduction, my response to Grant R. Jeffrey's book would still be "what a load of garbage". But the introduction sets the tone for the whole book. Jeffrey blindly refuses to acknowledge the one obvious component about the environment - whether you believe global warming is aggravated by human activity or not, what harm is there is USING LESS. Use less energy, less fossil show more fuels, have fewer children, eat less, just stop taking so much from the planet.

The most incomprehensible thing is that Jeffrey never addresses the fact that fossil fuels are NOT renewable - we ARE going to run out. I wonder, what will happen then? Many of the "facts" cited in the book are from sources that are 10 or more years old - that's pretty poor science, considering how quickly things change nowadays. And, as a Marine scientist, some of his information is flat out incorrect.

Jeffrey makes a strong case that Christians are right and everyone else is wrong. He is a conspiracy theorist to the nth degree, whose bias shows from the first page of the introduction. As a non-Christian, I found much of his opinion downright demeaning.This book is not an opposing viewpoint, it is one pompous man's dim view of everyone who doesn't think (or worship) the way he does. show less

I hated this book. Part of it wasn't the book's fault; I saw it on LibraryThing's Early Reviewer's list and thought it would be interesting to read a book challenging the accepted thoughts on global warming. The book described itself as non-fiction, and I read it as a popular science book. But it relies heavily on editorials and the Christian bible for its evidence, which makes it really quite a different kind of book.

I kept struggling to be fair -- just because an argument is bad doesn't show more mean that what it is arguing is false. If biblical prophecies agree with science, that doesn't make the science wrong. But it was very hard. Jeffrey keeps referring to the global conspiracy that is pushing global warming as a way of enforcing a world government, but he never identifies who or what is behind this conspiracy. Maybe really rich people. Maybe those liberal establishment types who regretted the fall of the USSR. Maybe Al Gore, or the Catholic Pope, or the third world dictator types who rule the UN. He constantly refers to magazine or newspaper editorials or blog essays to back up his science. I was particularly unimpressed with his horror over the Economist endorsing the total elimination of humanity in an editorial, since it was apparent even from his selective quote that irony was involved but completely missed by Jeffrey.

The book works only to preach to the converted; if you also believe that global warming is nothing to worry about because God says men cannot destroy the earth, then this book will warm your heart. But if you prefer science to revelations, this book doesn't have much to say. F show less

I had to stop reading when I made the mistake of reading the back cover. The whole coming of an economic crisis as wrought by the antichrist was just too much. Minus that comment, the book had been a rather quaint albeit paranoid look at the rolling over of the numbers in 2000. Not much happened. Yes, a few ATMs and credit card machines had trouble reading the cards that expired with dates as 2000 and higher and some mortgages caculated payments incorrectly but these problems were fixed.

No show more lights went out. There's no reason for them to have. The power grid predates computers by 60 or more years! The power grid is far more vulnerable to trees, weather and animals. Train switching systems may be automated but they don't care what date it is! I could go on but there's no point. show less