The physical phenomena in climate and weather are among the most complex in nature, and science can say very little about what they will do in the future. Yet a large international policy framework has been built precisely on the assumption that we know what is happening and how to control it. In Take by Storm, Christopher Essex and Ross McKitrick prove this assumption false, carefully explaining the science of climate change and deconstructing the widespread myth of global warming. They argue that the connection between science and society is disintegrating, and they propose a vital first step toward repairing this relationship. From Chapter 10 of Taken by Storm: It is understandable that people think only a handful of marginal critics have doubts {about global warming}. The critics, when not dismissed as contrarians, are often referred to as skeptics. They have also been called dissidents, bringing to mind internal opponents of the Cold War Soviet Union. Lately, the terms deniers and climate criminals have become more common as the political nastiness has grownWe have shown, page after page, that certainty on the subject of the future direction of climate is impossiblethat anyone who thinks we can predict the climate only courts the laughter of the gods.