Into the dustbin

"According to activists, climate change is a planetary emergency. But the more one learns about the man in charge of the United Nations body that examines climate issues, the harder it is to believe that that's really the case ... The climate world is one in which kernels of truth are routinely magnified, amplified, and distorted - by scientists, activists, public relations specialists, and reporters - until they bear almost no resemblance to empirical reality."--Introduction.