"Updated and Expanded." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one: the 1500-year climate cycle -- How did we find the Earth's 1,500-year climate cycle? -- Sun-climate connection -- Warming and cooling in human history -- Earth tells its own story of past climate cycles -- Part two: Predicting future climates -- Shattered glass in the greenhouse -- Fraud and deceit in selling man-made global warming -- How far can we trust global climate models? -- Part three: Baseless fears about global warming -- Rising sea levels -- Species extinction -- Famine and drought -- More violent weather -- Human deaths -- Part four: responding to global warming -- Kyoto protocol -- Alternative energy -- Conclusion. Argues that global warming is a natural, cyclical phenomenon that has not been caused by human activities and that its negative consequences have been greatly overestimated.