Gregory Wrightstone is a man of true science, firmly in the tradition of al-Hay- tham. His mission in this book is not to prop up some failed Party Line willy-nilly, nor—on the other hand—unthinkingly to oppose that Party Line merely on the basis that it is as scientifically disagreeable as it is histrionically hysterical. His mission is to distinguish what is from what is not in the climate debate. He has splendidly succeeded.The reader will find the book easy to read, logically structured, clearly expressed, well illustrated, compellingly supported by evidence and, above all, authoritative. This is not an academic work. For one thing, it is written in plain English. Yet it is as comprehensively referenced as any scientific book, and its conclusions are more reliable than those of the small number of “scientific” papers about climate change that the mainstream news media find expedient to mention.One of the many remarkable things about this book is how startlingly numerous, relevant and compelling are the Inconvenient Facts that it presents, and yet how unbecomingly few of these facts have ever appeared in any mainstream news medium.