This book tells for the first time one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe from runaway global warming, and how today this has persuaded the politicians to land us with what promises to be the biggest bill in history.<BR>Christopher Booker interweaves the story of the science of global warming with that of its ever more costly political consequences, showing how just when the politicians are passing laws which threaten to change our Western way of life beyond recognition, the scientific evidence behind the theory that CO2 is causing a world-threatening rise in temperatures is coming under challenge as never before.<BR>The book exposes the myth that the global warming theory is supported by a 'consensus of the world's top climate scientists'. It shows how the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is run by a small group of 'global warming' zealots, who have repeatedly rigged the evidence to support their theory.