An Inconvenient Truth is so last year! Al Gore’s book may have been #1 in 2006, but the global warming deniers and delayers are outselling everyone this year.

Of course, Bj¸rn Lomborg’s collection of cherry-picked misinformation, Cool It, is the top-selling book in four categories: Climatology, Climate Changes, Public Policy, and even Conservation.

But who knew that the top book in both Meteorology and Weather was the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) — a book whose title would be accurate if only the word “Politically” were removed?

And the #2 book in both Climate Changes and Weather is coauthored by world-class denier Fred Singer — Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years. Sounds like disaster movie dialogue: “It’s unstoppable, I tell, you, unstoppable.”

And the #4 book in Climate Changes (as of today) is a delightful piece of long-discredited disinformation, The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change: “The authors explain their theory that sub-atomic particles from exploded stars have more effect on the climate than manmade CO2.” Not.

And let’s not forget the #1 book in the land — by champion delayer Alan Greenspan — The Age of Turbulence.

I guess I should have gone contrarian, maybe titled my book: Global Warming: A New Heaven on Earth.

The President has a two-day summit of the major greenhouse gas polluters this week. It will no doubt be full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. What are the top 10 clues?

10. Dinner Entree: Grilled Polar Bear.

9. Transportation is by stretch Hummer.

8. The air conditioning is set to 60 degrees.

7. The corporate sponsor is ExxonMobil.

6. The only celebrity you can get is Carrot Top.

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I will be blogging from the Clinton Global Iniative (CGI) this week. So you will get first-hand impressions of the remarks of everyone from Tony Blair to Brad Pitt to Jane Goodall. The full agenda with all the speakers is here — one of the four tracks is climate change.

One reason I’m going to CGI in NY instead of attending Bush’s summit here in DC (aside from the fact that I wasn’t invited) is that the summit will not have any news — nothing will be accomplished. But you can only attend CGI if you’re willing to commit to substantive action.

I’ve never gotten press credentials before, so I really don’t know what this will be like, but I hope to snag some interviews, even if Climate Progress is not exactly national media. I hope to do some (relatively) live blogging Wednesday and Thursday, with wrap-ups in the evenings. If Bush’s climate speech is broadcast on Friday morning, I’ll try to cover that, too.

Here are excerpts from the CGI press release:

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