S. Fred Singer was the founding dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences at the University of Miami, the first director of the U.S. National Weather Satellite Service, and served five years as vice chairman of the U.S. National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmospheres. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books and monographs, including Global Climate Change (Paragon House, 1989) and Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate, (Independent Institute, 1997).

Dennis T. Avery has been a senior fellow of the Hudson Institute since 1989. Prior to that, he was a senior analyst in the U.S. Department of State (1980-88), where he won the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement in 1983. Avery's book Saving the Planet With Pesticides and Plastic: The Environmental Triumph of High-Yield Farming (Hudson) was first published in 1995, with a second edition in 2000.

Chapter 1 Prologue
Chapter 2 List of Graphs
Chapter 3 Earth's Climate Timeline
Chapter 4 1. Is Humanity Losing the Global Warming Debate?
Chapter 5 2. How Did We Find the Earth's 1,500-year Climate Cycle?
Chapter 6 3. Shattered Glass in the Greenhouse Theory
Chapter 7 4. The Baseless Fears: Sea Levels Will Surge, Bringing Floods and Devastation
Chapter 8 5. The Treaty That Would Change Earth's Climate-Or Maybe Not
Chapter 9 6. The Baseless Fears: A Million Wild Species Will Be Lost Forever
Chapter 10 7. Warming and Cooling in Human History
Chapter 11 8. The Baseless Fears: Warming Brings Famine, Drought, and Barren Soils
Chapter 12 9. The Earth Tells Its Own Story of Past Climate Cycles
Chapter 13 10. The Baseless Fears: More Frequent and Fiercer Storms
Chapter 14 11. How Far Can We Trust the Global Climate Models?
Chapter 15 12. The Baseless Fears: Abrupt Global Cooling
Chapter 16 13. The Sun-Climate Connection
Chapter 17 14. The Baseless Fears: Millions of Human Deaths from Warming
Chapter 18 15. Powering the Future: Can We Depend on Renewable Energy?
Chapter 19 16. The Ultimate Failure of the Kyoto Protocol
Chapter 20 Glossary
Chapter 21 About the Authors