We are so-called climate sceptics. That is to say, we doubt that there is such a thing as man-made (or anthropogenic) global warming, which will lead to all kinds of disasters for mankind, such as a rise in the sea level with flooding, greater weather instability, higher land temperatures accompanied by major droughts or extreme precipitation with negative consequences for agriculture, migration of tropical insects to northern latitudes with harmful implications for human health, an increase in the frequency and intensity of storms, etc. We believe that there is simply not sufficient scientific evidence to substantiate those claims. Moreover, we believe that, even if the problem is real, the Kyoto Treaty, which provides for mandatory reductions of emissions of CO ₂ and other greenhouse gases, to counter man-made global warming, is utterly ineffective, while its cost-benefit ratio is such that it implies the squandering of scarce resources which could be used for better purposes.

This book is an enhanced and updated amalgam of numerous articles which we have published on the issues at hand over the past few years, both in the Netherlands and abroad. In the Netherlands, they have been published in quality newspapers and periodicals, such as the weekly news magazine Elsevier; internationally, they have been published on the website of TechCentralStation ( Where free market meet technology ) ^[1] and in Energy & Environment . Moreover, we have presented both positive and negative reactions which we received from readers. The book does not only cover the climatological aspects...