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''Heaven and Earth: Global Warming – The Missing Science'' is a popular science book published in 2009 and written by Australian geologist, professor of mining geology at Adelaide University, and mining company director Ian Plimer. It disputes the scientific consensus on climate change, including the view that global warming is "very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic (man-made) greenhouse gas concentrations"〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=IPCC AR4 Summary for Policymakers )〕 and asserts that the debate is being driven by what the author regards as irrational and unscientific elements. The book received what ''The Age'' newspaper called "glowing endorsements" from the conservative press. ''The Australian'' said it gave "all the scientific ammunition climate change skeptics could want." Other reviewers criticised the book as unscientific, inaccurate, based on obsolete research, and internally inconsistent. Ideas in it have been described as "so wrong as to be laughable".〔 ''Heaven and Earth'' was a bestseller in Australia when published in May 2009, and is in its seventh printing, according to the publisher.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Heaven and Earth Global Warming... Ian Plimer - $39.95 : Connor Court Publishing, Australian Publisher )〕 The book has also been published in the United States and the United Kingdom.〔 == Background == ''Heaven and Earth'' is a sequel to a previous work by Plimer called ''A Short History of Planet Earth''. Published in 2001, ''A Short History'' was based on a decade's worth of radio broadcasts by Plimer aimed mainly at rural Australians. It became a bestseller and won a Eureka Prize in 2002.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://eureka.australianmuseum.net.au/7F923342-9A53-0F79-BF02023316166B60 )〕 However, Plimer was unable to find any major publisher willing to publish his follow-up book. He attributed this to there being "a lot of fear out there. No one wants to go against the popular paradigm." Plimer turned to Connor Court Publishing. The company has a history of publishing books on "culture, justice and religion", including many books on Christianity and Catholicism in particular. It has also published fellow Australian climate change skeptic Garth Paltridge's book, ''The Climate Caper'', which likewise criticises the climate change consensus and the "politicisation of science". ''Crikey,'' an Australian webzine, commented that the publication of ''Heaven and Earth'' was a coup for conservatives, and said of the publisher: "The conservatives have a new friend in publishing". According to Plimer, he wrote ''Heaven and Earth'' after being "incensed by increasing public acceptance of the idea that humans have caused global warming" and set out to "knock out every single argument we hear about climate change." Although he does not dispute that climate change is happening, he argues that "It's got nothing to do with the atmosphere, it's about what happens in the galaxy" and that climate is driven by the sun, the Earth's orbit and plate tectonics rather than the levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Plimer says his book is for the "average punter in the street" who can "smell something is wrong in the climate debate but can't put a finger on what." Critics have regularly questioned Plimer about his commercial interests in the mining industry, but he defends the independence of his views, saying that these commercial interests do not colour his arguments, which are based on pure science. Critics note that Plimer has opposed a carbon trading scheme in Australia, saying that "it would probably destroy (mining industry ) totally".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lateline Business - 11/11/2008: Ian Plimer joins Lateline Business )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heaven and Earth (book)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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