Introduction.- UNEP/IPCC history.- Conclusions of IPCC.- The message through the media.- The greeenhouse effect.- The climate models.- The possible causes of climate change.- The general circulation of the atmosphere.- The observational facts: palaeoclimatology.- The observational facts: present temperature.- The observational facts: present rainfall and weather.- The sea: its level and oceanographical 'explanations'.- GHE and drought in the tropical margins.- GHE and 'oscillations': NAO; NPO.- GHE would increase frequency of El Niño.- Real warming: a disaster or a benefit.- The true priorities of climatology.- Conclusions.

This book seeks to separate fact from fiction in the global-warming debate. The author begins by describing the history of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and many other conferences, and their dire predictions on global temperatures, rainfall, weather and climate, while highlighting confusion and sensationalism media reports. He then lays out the "heretical" scientific case of the sizable skeptical scientific community who challenge the accepted wisdom.