Introduction:
The purpose of
this website is to provide an archive of
resources - scientific articles, news articles,
films, videos, books, interviews, debates,
commentary and analysis - pertinent to the
current controversy over global warming. This is
a web site "in progress" so at any given point
in time it may or may not be complete in terms
of the currency or expanse of material
reflecting both sides of the global warming
debate (i.e. those supporting and opposing the
CO2 explanation).
The website
seeks to challenge and refute the
assertion appearing above from
critics like
Laurie David that erroneously seek
to mislead people into believing
that there is no significant degree
of dis-consensus among scientists,
researchers and policy analysts
regarding the contribution of CO2 to
so-called anthropogenic global
warming. Instead, this website takes the
position that there is a dis-consensus
among scientists and policy makers regarding the
adequacy of the CO2 theory of global warming.
Consequently it refutes the assertion by some
that "the debate is over." I encourage
those who peruse these pages to
realize that herein lies HUNDREDS of
peer-reviewed scientific articles
spanning many years that effectively
dismantles the currently dominate
CO2 theory of anthropogenic global
warming
Assertions such as those proffered
by Laurie David
are premature and
are intended to
stifle inquiry. The site is predicated upon
the position that the ratification of Kyoto would
have been premature - based upon the
dis-consensus that persists among experts as
well as on the basis of the perverse features of
Kyoto that would be harmful to the U.S. economy.
Moreover, it asserts that the
current efforts by the Obama
administration and those pursuing
Cap-And-Trade policies to curb the
unproven theory of anthropogenic
global warming is not only
premature, it is wantonly reckless
and dangerous to this nation and its
citizens.
However, whatever the philosophical leanings of
the reader may be on this subject, the website is
intended for use by a variety of persons, to
include students, researchers and lay people. It
is not a site designed to "winnow" out the most
important research and at any moment in time may
or may not be "fair and balanced" in terms of
reflecting both sides of the disagreement.
It does seek to present research
representative of the variety of experts who
have studied this issue - on both sides of the
controversy - although in an effort to refute
the dismissive attitude of many toward so-called
climate change skeptics, it disproportionately
reflects dissenting opinions.
Even
so, it strives to include
policy analysis, news articles, media coverage
and films and video that pertain to the debate.
Likewise, since some of the scientific
literature pertinent to this topic is dated and
difficult to come by, I have sought to whenever
possible provide links to abstracts or original
articles so that readers may peruse these with
ease and will not have to spend the countless
hours I have invested finding some of this
documentation. Ultimately, I leave it to the
reader to sort out the relative importance of
each article and research finding. Nevertheless,
I have sought to demonstrate in this website
that their are bona fide experts on both sides
of this debate who do professional research and
who disagree. In that regard, I take issue with
my colleagues who simply dismiss the so called
"skeptics" "dissenters" or "contrarians" (as
they are called) as a group of ill-informed,
cantankerous scientific mavericks who in most
cases have been bought out by "big oil" or some
"conservative" political issue. Even a cursory
review of the work and credentials of these
academics demonstrates that these people are
qualified to make their assertions and should be
given the scientific benefit of the doubt and
not be vilified.
Finally, the reader should
understand that my professional
perspective on this issue is as a
policy analyst. I am not a scientist
in the classical sense of the term -
approaching this issue as a "social
scientist." I look for consensus and
dis-consensus on issues and where I
find consensus I generally counsel
informed actions. However, where I
see dis-consensus, such as that
evident in regard to this policy
issue, I always caution a careful
and incremental approach to policy
intervention and action. For the
moment, I am urging all those who
look at this issue to proceed
cautiously and in the spirit of
collegiality with those who
disagree. If a clear consensus
eventually emerges, one way or
another, then I hope this website
becomes an interesting historical
artifact of more conflictual times.
If you need to reach me, or have
additional articles, videos or links
that might usefully be added to this
site, please contact me at
twimber@fgcu.edu.
Thanks! (July 4, 2009)
Books,
etc.: (Reflecting a Range of Opinion)
1.
Allegre, Claude (2006) My
Truth About the Planet. Paris, FR: Ediciones
Paidos Iberica. (Third Edition).
2.
Beckerman, Wilfred (1996) Through
Green-Colored Glasses: Environmentalism Reconsidered,
Washington, DC: The Cato Institute.
3.
Crichton, Michael (2004) State
of Fear. New York, NY: Harper Collins.
4.
Gale, Thomas (1998) Climate
of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry About Global Warming,
Washington, DC: The Cato Institute.
5.
Gore, Albert (2007) An
Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global
Warming and What We Can Do About It. New
York, NY: Rodale Publishers.
6.
Goreham,
Steve (2010) Climatism!:
Science, Common Sense, and the 21st Century's Hottest Topic. New Lenox, IL: New Lenox Books
7.
Horner, Chris (2007) The
Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming.
Washington, DC: Regenery Press.
8.
Houghton, John (2004) Global
Warming: The Complete Briefing. New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press.
9.
Imbrie, John & Katherine (1979) Ice
Ages, Solving the Mystery. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press.
10.
Jaccard, Mark, Nyboer, John, and Sadownik, Bryn (2002) Kyoto?
the Cost of Climate Policy. Vancouver, BC:
University of British Columbia Press.
11.
Leroux, Marcel (2005) Global
Warming - Myth or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology.
New York, NY: Springer Press. 20.
12.
Lomborg, Bjorn (2001) The
Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of
the World. New York, NY: Cambridge University
Press.
13.
Michaels, Patrick J. (2005) Shattered
Consensus: The Status of Global Warming.
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
14.
Michaels, Patrick J. (2005) Meltdown:
The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists,
Politicians, and the Media. Washington. DC:
Cato Institute.
15.
Michaels, Patrick J. (2000) The
Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air About Global Warming. DC:
Cato Institute.
16.
Pilkey, Orrin and Pilkey-Jarvis, Linda (2007) Useless
Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the
Future. New York, NY: Columbia University
Press.
17.
Plimer, Ian (2009) Heaven
and Earth: Global Warming the Missing Science.
New York, NY: Taylor Trade Publishing.
18.
Reed, Alan (2006) Precious
Air: The Kyoto Protocol and Profit in the Global Warming
Game. Kansas City, MO: Leathers
Publishing.
19.
Singer, Fred S. and Avery, Dennis (2007) Unstoppable
Global Warming - Every 1,500 Years. Lanham,
MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
20.
Svensmark, Henrik and Calder, Nigel (2007) The
Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change.
Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Totem Books.
21.
Victor, David G. (2004) The
Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow
Global Warming. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press
22.
Global
Warming Archive (Newspapers)
Films
and Video: (Reflecting a Range of
Opinion)
1.
American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2007) Global Climate Change.
Washington, D.C.
2.
ABC
News (2006) Global
Climate Change.
3.
Arthus-Bertrand, Yann (2009) Home, Europacorp, Elzevir
Films. (Film
Website)
4.
Attenborough,
David (2006) The
Truth About Climate Change, CBC News.
5.
Audi Motors (2010) Audi 2010 Green Car Super Bowl Commercial,
Green Police Foam Cup Bust, Green Police Anteater,
Green Police Napkin,
Green Police Interactive Challenge,
Green Police PSA - Power Strip," January 7.
6.
Avery,
Dennis of the Hudson Institute and co-author of Unstoppable
Global Warming with Fred Singer (2006) Global
Warming Every 1,500 Years presented at the
Heartland Institute.
7.
Bader,
David (2007) Climate
Change: What We Know and What We Need to Learn,
Science on Saturday. Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory.
8.
Bailey, Ron (2004) Climate Change
Debate: Will Green Put us in the Red?Anthropogenic
Climate Change: Science, Economics and PolicyAnthropogenic
Climate Change: Science, Economics and Policy
9.
Ball, Timothy (2009) Climategate: Dr. Tim Ball on the hacked CRU emails,
10.
BBC (2007) IPCC
Warming Report Blames Humans, February 2.
11.
BBC (2007) The Big Chill (Part 1, Part
2, Part
3, Part
4, Part
5)
12.
Baliunas, Sallie (2007) On Global Warming and the Climate of Fear.
The Independent Institute.
13.
Beck, Glenn (2007) Exposed:
Climate of Fear, CNN Headlines News.
14.
Burkitt, Dave (2007) The Great Meltdown. Journeyman
Films.
15.
Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) (2006) The
Denial Machine.
16.
CBS
News (2010) 60 Minutes - Climate
Change Debate, Part
I, Part
II
17.
Capra, Frank (1958) Unchained Goddess,
18.
Carlin, George (2008) Riff on Global Warming.
19.
Carter, Bob (2008) Testing the Hypothesis of Dangerous
Human-Caused Global Warming. Part 1, Part
2.
20.
CATO
Institute (2010) What
to Do About Climate Change, FORATV.
21.
Cicerone, Ralph (2010) Climate
Change and Scientists, Roger Revelle
Centennial Symposium.
22.
Cinchester, Bob (2008) Unstoppable Solar Cycles
The Idea Channel
23.
CNET.News (2008) Climate
Change: Why All the Argument? New
York, NY.
24.
C-Span (2009) Climate of Extremes. Part 1, Part 2, Part
3
25.
Coleman, John (2010) Global Warming The Other Side.
Part
1, Part
2, Part
3, Part
4, Part
5
26.
Coleman, John (2009) Roger
Revelle - Originator of the CO2 Global Warming Theory Admits
It Was Wrong Before He Died March 29, KUSI
News Meterologist.
27.
Coleman, John (2008) Global
Warming: the Greatest Scam in History. Sppech
delivered to the Annual Meeting of Doctors for Disaster
Preparedness, Phoenix, AZ.
28.
Copp, Duncan and Sington, David (2006) Global
Dimming. (A five part film series also
available at Google)
London, UK: Horizon Films, Distributed by BBC Films.
29.
Council on Foreign Relations (2009) Tackling Climate Change,
Washington, DC.
30.
Crichton, Michael (2007) States
of Fear: Science or Politics? The Independent
Institute and Environmentalism
as Religion, C-SPAN-2, Students and Leaders
Series.
31.
Discovery Channel (2007) Beyond
Global Warming.
32.
Durkin, Martin (2007)
The
Great Global Warming Swindle (Available
in 9 parts at Youtube. Also available in one
continuous piece at Documentary Wire , Veoh, LiveVideo, MetaCafe, Vimeo, InCom, TuTV, VoPod, ToDou,
Garage TV and Ustream TV.
The film is also critiqued by CBC News.
by Glenn
Beck (and Beck's interview
with the film's director Durkin) with another
portion of data
drawn from the film also available as a 10 minute
clip with Google) Presented in the United Kingdom and
produced as a rejoinder to An Inconvenient Truth.
33.
Dyson, Freeman (2007) Stratospheric Cooling & Global
Warming, part
one and part
two.
34.
Fox News (2009) Suppressed" Climate Change Report
Author Speaks Out on Fox News.
35.
Fox News (2006) Global
Warming: The Debate Continues.
36.
Gelbspan, Ross and Seed, John (2006) Climate
Change: Despair and Empowerment,
37.
Gore, Albert (2008) Al
Gores New Thinking on the Climate Crisis.
TED Talks.
38.
Gore, Albert (2007) An
Inconvenient Truth. Produced by David
Guggenheim, Hollywood, CA: Paramount Films (Also see Al
Gore's Congressional
Testimony on Global Warming, an interview
with Diane Sawyer and the CBC interview with Al Gore).
39.
Gore, Al (2009) Al
Gore Warns On Latest Climate Trends, TED
Talks.
40.
Gore, All (2009) Al
Gore on Climate Crisis, TED Talks.
41.
Gore, Al (2007) Gore
On Nightline, ABC News.
42.
Gore, Al (2006) "15 Ways to Avert A Climate Crisis,"
February, TED Talks. Gray, William (2008) Climatology,
Circulate and Climate Change, International
Conference on Climate Change. New York, NY, (March).
43.
Griffith, Saul (2009) Climate Change Recalculated. Long Now Foundation.
FOR A.tv
44.
Heller, Thomas C. and Schneider, Stephen H. (2006) Stanford Experts on Climate Change and Carbon Trading
45.
History Channel (2007) Global
Warming, Global Warming, Global Warming, Megafreeze.
46.
Idea Channel (2008) Unstoppable
Solar Cycles.
47.
Inhofe, James (Sen) (2007) Senate Hearings: Climate Change and the
Media and "What If I'm Wrong, What if They're Right,"
U.S. Senate, Environment and Public Works Committee,
Washington, DC.
48.
Institute of Ideas (2009) The
Science and Politics of Climate Change, FOR
A.tv.
49.
Intelligence Squared U.S. (2007) (Town Hall Debate) The
Global Warming Debate (A ten part set of
debate clips) broadcast on PBS and NPR.
50.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
Federations (2008) The
Human Face Of Climate Change. New
York, NY.
51.
Jacoby,
Henry D. (2010) The Great Climategate Debate,
MIT
52.
Keith,
David (2000) Can We Afford to Prevent Global Warming? Making Sense
of Global Climate Change
53.
Klaus, Vaclav (2008)
Climate
Change and Freedom, New York Climate Change
Conference.
54.
Lawson, Hillary (1990) The
Greenhouse Conspiracy. The Lavoiser Group.
55.
Leahy, Dour (2007) Climate
Catastrophe Canceled (2007) Friends of
Science (Canada) (Also available on Youtube.com)
56.
Light,
Andrew (2009) Andrew Light on
Climate Change.
57.
Lomborg, Bjorn (2005) "An Economists View of Saving the World,"
February, TED Talks (Canada), University of
Copenhagen.
58.
Lovelock,
James (2007) James Lovelock - Climate change on the living Earth
59.
MacCracken, Michael (2007) Global
Warming and the IPCC; The Kyoto Protocol and Us;
Citizens Listening to Climate Scientists
and the U.S.
Climate Assessment Report (Dr. MaCracken is
Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs with the Climate
Institute in Washington DC.
60.
McKelhinney, Ann (2009) Not
Evil, Just Wrong.
61.
McKelhinney, Ann (2009) Lecture:
Not Evil, Just Wrong.
62.
McKeowen, Bob (2006) The
Denial Machine.
CBC.CA, The Fifth Estate.
63.
Mendelsohn, Carol (2006) The
Climate Change Denial Industry (2006) Global TV News.
64.
Meyer, Warren (2007) What
is Normal? Climate Video. Part
1, Part
2, Part
3, Part
4, Part
5, Part
6
65.
Miller, Dan (2009) A
Really Inconvenient Truth.
66.
Monckton,
Christopher (Lord) (2009) Lord Christopher Monckton Speaking in St.
Paul on Global Warming, Minnesota Free Market
Institute, St. Paul.
67.
Monckton, Christopher (2009) Lord
Monckton on Climategate.
68.
Mortensen, Lars O. (2008) The Cloud Mystery. 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
TV2-Denmark.
69.
Mortensen, Lars O. (2004) Global Warming - Doomsday Called Off
. (Also available at Google)
Copenhagen, DK: Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK).
70.
National Geographic (2007) A
Way Forward: Facing Climate Change,
71.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and The
University of Washington, (2008) Climate
Change: A Wakeup Call. 2008 Lecture
Series, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and
Ocean, UWTV, Seattle, WA.
72.
Nordhaus,
Ted (2008) Climate Change, UNUChannel.
73.
Orsekes, Naomi (2008) The American Denial of Global Warming,
University of California, San Diego
74.
Pachauri,
Ragendra (2008)
Pachauri on Climate Change,
Wallace Wurth Lecture, University of New South Wales.
75.
Pinkel, Robert (2008) Ice
Ocean and Eddies: An Arctic Perspective on Climate Change,
Perspectives on Ocean Science: Perspective on Climate
Change. University of California Television, La Jolla,
CA.
76.
Plimer, Ian (2009) Human Induced Climate Change, (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5).
77.
Pilmer, Ian (2008) Environmentalism
is the New Religion, FOR A.tv
78.
Prinn, Ronald (2007) Anthropogenic
Climate Change: Science, Economics and Policy Anthropogenic Climate Change
79.
Prinns,
Gwyn (2008) Climate Change, UNUChannel.
80.
QuantumShift, (2007) Soil: The Secret Solution to Global
Warming, Rodale Institute.
81.
Robinson, Art (2008) "Global Warming Lecture,"
The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, Cave Junction,
OR.
82.
Sackur, Stephen (2007) Getting
a Grip on Greenlands Future, BBC
Production.
83.
SBS Television (2007) The
Greenhouse Conspiracy. CH4 UK
84.
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) (Institute of
Ideas) (2008) The
Science and Politics Climate Science. London,
UK.
85.
Scripps Research Institute (2009) Revelle Centennial: Climate Change and
Scientists. Roger Revelle Centennial
Symposium Series, La Jolla, CA.
86.
Severinghaus, Jeff (2008) Climate
Change Clues Frozen in Time, UCTV, La Jolla,
CA.
87.
Singer,
Fred (2009) Singer on Climate Change.
Independent Institute.
88.
Singer, Fred (2008) Response
to Climate Change - Is CO2 the cause?
Part
1, Part
2
89.
Solomon, Lawrence (2008) Climategate
Prescience: Lawrence Solomon "The Deniers"
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
90.
Sommerville, Richard (2007) Global
Warming: Climate Change, and Public Policy.
Osher Lecture Series, University of California Santa
Barbara, UCTV.
91.
Soon, Willie (2009) Dr Willie Soon on Global Climate Change.
International
Climate Change Conference, New York
92.
Sourcecode (2007) Cost of Carbon Trading and
Climate
Change is Real, Washington, DC.
93.
Stern,
Nicholas (2007) Climate Change: The Economics of and
Prospects for a Global Deal, MIT World.Climate
Change: The Economics of and Prospects for a Global
DealClimate Change: The Economics of and Prospects for a
Global Deal
94.
Stossel, John (2009) John
Stossel Tackles Global Climate Change / Climategate,
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
95.
Stotts, Phillip (2008) Global Warming Is A Myth.
Lecture at IQ-Squared Conference on the Environment from
Professor of Biogeography at the School of Oriental and
African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
96.
Svensmark, Henrik (2008) Part One: On Global Warming. Part
Two: On Global Warming. Part
Three: On Global Warming. Part
Four: On Global Warming. Part
Five: On Global Warming.
97.
Taylor, Jerry (2007) The Global Warming Report.
Washington, DC: The Cato Institute.
98.
United Nations (2007) Ethical Dimensions Of Climate Change.
United Nations Panel on Ethics and Climate Change, New York,
NY.
99.
University of California, Berkeley (2006) Business
Perspectives on Climate Change, UCTV,
La Jolla, CA.
100.
University of California, Berkeley (2006) China-U.S.
Climate Change Forum: What's at Risk? Economic, Social and
Political Impacts and Adaptation Costs, UCTV,
La Jolla, CA.
101.
Watson, Robert (2006) World Bank Chief Scientist Part One
Interview. November, 20 (Parts
Two and Three).
102.
WGBH Science (2008) Global Warming (Part 1 - Is it Getting Warmer?;
Part 2 - Climates of the Past;
Part 3 - Man Made or Natural?
and Part
3 Extension, Part
4 - Consequences and Climate Models, Part 5 - What Can We Expect?)
Public Broadcasting Service
Climategate
Films (Serious and Humorous)
1.
BBC
(2009) Climategate
(Part 1)
2.
BBC
(2009) Climategate
(Part 2)
3.
Ball,
Tim (2009) Climategate:
Dr. Tim Ball on the Hacked CRU Emails
4.
Discolse.TV
(2009) Scientists
Change Facts For Climategate
5.
Fox
News (2009)
'Climategate'
Probe
6.
Minnesotans
for Global Warming (2009) Climate
Decline
The
Apocalyptic Media: Global Cooling &
Earlier Stories of Global Warming:
3.
Fisher,
John (2008) Bias
in Media Coverage, The
New American. (August 4), pj. 24-28.
6.
Ifft, George Nicholas (1922) The
Changing Arctic, Monthly Weather Review. (November).
12.
Peterson, Thomas C., Connolley, William N. and Fleck, John (2008)
The
Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus, Bulletin of the American
Meteorological Society. Vol. 89, Iss. 9, p. 1325-1337.
14.
Schmeck, Harold M. (1975) "Climate
Changes Called Ominous," New
York Times, June 19, p. 35f.
17.
Time Magazine (1974)
"Another
Ice Age," June 24.
Monographs,
Papers, Presentations, Reports, Stories,
Letters and Articles: (Championing the
CO2 Theory of Global Warming)
1.
Allegre,
Claude and Schneider, Stephen H. (2005) "The Evolution of Earth," (Pro-Anthropgenic Global
Warming Article). Scientific American.
2.
Allegre,
Claude (2006) The Snows of Kilimanjaro, LExpress. Sept.
21
3.
Eccleston,
Paul (2008) "Himalayan glaciers are at risk of disappearing completely by 2035,"
Telegraph.co.uk.
4.
Farley,
John W. (2008) The
Scientific Case for Anthropogenic Global Warming,
Monthly Review. (July August)
5.
Hansen,
James (1999) "The Global Warming Debate, " NASA Goddard Institute for
Space Studies.
6.
IPCC,
(2007) Climate Change 2007. (Working
Group II) (Also see IPCC Reports).
7.
Knutson,
Thomas R. and Tuleya, Robert E. (2004) Impact of CO2 Induced Warming on Simulated Hurricane Intensity and
Precipitation: Sensitivity to the Choice of Climate Model
and Conversion Parmaterization, Journal
of Climate, Vol. 17, No. 18, pp. 3477-3495.
8.
Mann,
M.E. and Emanuel, K.A. (2006) Atlantic Hurricane Trends Linked to Climate Change, EOS,
Vol. 87, No. 24 (June 13), pp. 233-244.
9.
NASA,
(2002) Global Warming, Earth Science Enterprise Series,
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
10.
National Public Radio (2007) NASA Administrator Not Sure Global Warming A Problem, Space
Daily, May.
11.
Wang, James and Oppenheimer, Michael
(2007) Latest Myths and Facts on Global Warming. Environmental
Defense Fund.
12.
Webster, P.J. et al., (2005) Changes in Tropical Cyclone Number, Duration, and Intensity in a Warming
Environment, Science. Vol. 309, No.
5742, pp. 1844-1846.
13.
Worldwatch Institute (2008) "Questions and Answers about Global Warming and Abrupt Climate Change,
Washington, D.C.
Articles
Critical of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth
4.
Michaels, Patrick J. (2007) "Inconvenient
Truths,"
National Review Online. (Feb. 23).
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