Inconvenient Facts: The Science That Al Gore Doesn’t Want You to Know

“Great is truth and mighty above all things.” That maxim drives Inconvenient Facts: The Science That Al Gore Doesn’t Want You to Know, a book that places climate change claims in context and confronts the alarmist narrative head-on. Wrightstone challenges the popular refrain that “the science is settled” by marshaling sixty verifiable points of evidence — what he calls inconvenient facts — drawn from peer-reviewed studies, government data, and decades of geological perspective. This book rejects the politics of fear and equips readers to evaluate climate change without surrendering to propaganda.

Each chapter dismantles a central pillar of climate alarmism. Greenhouse gases are reframed not as a looming threat but as Earth’s essential security blanket. Carbon dioxide is revealed as the foundation of life, feeding plant growth and agricultural bounty. Droughts are declining, not expanding. Forest fire trends fail to support panic headlines. Polar bears, the mascot of climate tragedy, are in fact thriving. Even the oft-repeated “97% consensus” proves to be a manufactured talking point rather than a measured reality.

Wrightstone also documents the political uses of tragedy — how hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods are seized upon to advance sweeping agendas. He tackles sea-level rise and ocean acidity with data that rarely make headlines, noting where natural cycles dwarf human inputs. Again and again, he rebuts catastrophic predictions with evidence that a warmer climate has historically correlated with human flourishing, while cold spells have brought famine and death.

The book speaks directly to non-experts — the people Scott Adams labeled victims of the “non-expert problem.” Wrightstone’s aim is to put powerful, understandable data into their hands so they can answer confidently when confronted with climate orthodoxy. The facts, presented clearly and without jargon, strip the veneer from what Huxley once called “a beautiful theory slain by an ugly fact.” For readers weary of being told to panic, Inconvenient Facts offers grounding, context, and the tools to push back. (2017, 158pp, pb)