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An Archive of Resources on
Global Warming

Division of
Marine Sciences and Ecological Sciences
College of Arts
& Sciences
Florida Gulf
Coast University
Fort Myers,
Florida
Edward T.
"Terry" Wimberley, Ph.D., Professor
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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 does take 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." Such an assertion
would appear to be premature and intended to
stifle inquiry. The site is also predicated upon
the position that the ratification of Kyoto at
this time would be 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.
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.
However, it does seek to present research
representative of the variety of experts who
have studied this issue - on both sides of the
controversy. Moreover 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! (June 20, 2007)
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Books: (Reflecting a Range of
Opinion)
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Allegre, Claude (2006)
My Truth About the Planet.
Paris, FR: Ediciones Paidos Iberica. (Third
Edition).
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Crichton, Michael (2004)
State of Fear. New
York, NY: Harper Collins.
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Imbrie, John & Katherine (1979)
Ice Ages, Solving the Mystery.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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Jaccard, Mark, Nyboer, John, and Sadownik, Bryn (2002)
Kyoto? the Cost of Climate Policy.
Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press.
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Films and Video:
(Reflecting a Range of Opinion)
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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.
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BBC (2007)
Why an Ice Age May Come To Britain,
(Excerpts from the documentary The Big Chill - a
four part video clip).
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Beck, Glenn (2007)
Exposed: Climate of Fear.
(A Six-Part Link) CNN Headlines News.
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Burkitt, Dave (2007)
The Great Meltdown.
Journeyman Films.
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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.
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Dyson, Freeman (2007)
Stratospheric Cooling & Global Warming,
part one
and
part two.
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Intelligence Squared U.S. (2007) (Town Hall Debate)
The Global Warming Debate
(A ten part set of debate clips) broadcast on PBS and
NPR.
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Lomborg, Bjorn (2005) "An
Economists View of Saving the World,"
February, TED Talks (Canada), University of
Copenhagen.
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Mortensen, Lars O. (2004)
Global Warming - Doomsday Called
Off . (Also available at
Google) Copenhagen, DK:
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK).
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Robinson, Art (2008) "Global
Warming Lecture,"
The
Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, Cave Junction,
OR.
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Taylor, Jerry (2007)
The Global Warming Report.
Washington, DC: The Cato Institute.
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1970's Reports on Global Cooling:
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Gwynne, Peter (1975) "The
Cooling World," Newsweek. April 28.
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Time Magazine (1974)
"Another
Ice Age,"
June 24.
Monographs,
Papers, Presentations, Reports, Stories, Letters and
Articles: (Championing the CO2 Theory of Global Warming)
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Allegre, Claude and Schneider, Stephen H. (2005)
"The
Evolution of Earth," Scientific American.
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Allegre,
Claude (2006)
The
Snows of Kilimanjaro, LExpress. Sept. 21
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Cockburn,
Alexander (2007)"Global
Warming Sin?" "Merchants
of Fear," "Explosion
of the Fearmongers," "Sources
and Authorities," Counterpunch.
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Eccleston,
Paul (2008) "Himalayan
glaciers are at risk of disappearing completely by 2035,"
Telegraph.co.uk.
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Hansen, James (1999) "The
Global Warming Debate,"
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
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NASA, (2002) Global Warming,
Earth Science Enterprise Series, NASA Goddard Institute
for Space Studies.
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NOAA (2007) Global Warming:
Frequently Asked Questions,
National Climate Data Center, (June).
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Webster, P.J. et al., (2005) Changes
in Tropical Cyclone Number, Duration, and Intensity in a Warming
Environment, Vol. 309, No.
5742, pp. 1844-1846.
Articles Critical of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth
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Michaels,
Patrick J. (2007) "Inconvenient
Truths,"
National Review Online. (Feb. 23) .
General Articles Critical of CO2 Theory of Global Warming
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Akasofu, Syun-Ichi (2007) Is
Earth Still Recovering form the Little Ice Age?
Anchorage, AK:
International Artic Research Center, University of
Alaska, Anchorage.
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Baliunas, Sallie and
Soon, Willie (2001) "Climate
History and the Sun,"
Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon, June 5, Washington, DC:
The Marshall Institute.
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Baliunas, Sallie and Soon
Willie (2000) "The
Sun Also Warms,"
March 24, Washington, DC: The Marshall Institute.
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Baliunas, Sallie
and Soon, Willie (1997) "A
Scientific Discussion of Climate Change,"
November 1, Washington, DC: The Marshall Institute.
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Carter, Robert M., de Freitas, C.
R., Goklany, Indur M., Holland, David, Lindzen, Richard
(2007) The
Stern Review: A Dual Critique (Part 1: The Science),
World Economics, Vol. 7, No. 4.
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Christy, J.R. and R.W.Spencer (2005) Correcting
temperature data sets, Science, 310, 972.
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Clark, Ian (2000) Seasonal contributions to baseflow in
a charr spawning watershed of the western Arctic: A
model for monitoring the hydrological impacts of climate
warming. Canadian Geophysical Union Scientific Meeting,
May 23-27, Banff.
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Freitas, C.R. (1987) "Perspectives on the impact of
short-term climatic change in New Zealand," New
Zealand Geographer, 43, 169-176.
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Freitas, C.R. and A.M. Fowler (1989) "Identifying
sensitivity to climatic change at the regional scale:
the New Zealand example," Proceedings of 15th.
Conference New Zealand Geographical Society,
R. Welch (ed.), New Zealand Geographical Society
Conference Series, No. 15, Dunedin, 254-261.
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Freitas, C.R. (1991) "The greenhouse crisis: myths and
misconceptions," Area (Institute of British
Geographers), 23 (1), 11-19.
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Freitas, C.R. (1994) "A critical appraisal of the global
warming debate," New Zealand Geographer, 50
(1), 30-33.
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Freitas, C.R. (2000) "Greenhouse: a diversion from
environmental needs," PESA Bulletin.
12.99/01.00, 57-60.
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Freitas, C.R. (2000) "Global Warming as a classroom
topic: New perspectives on the climate change debate,"
New Zealand Journal of Geography, 110, 16-23.
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Essex, Christopher, Andresen, Bjarne and
Ross McKitrick (2006) Does
a Global Temperature Exist? Journal of
Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics, Vol., 32 No. 1.
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Fowler, A.M. and C.R. de Freitas (1990) "Climate impact
studies from scenarios: help or hindrance?" Weather
and Climate, 10, 3-10.
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Gagosian, R.B. (2002) Abrupt
Climate Change, The President of Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution discusses the Global Ocean
Conveyer.
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Hansen and Sato (2001) Trends
of Measured Climate Forcing Agents,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (US)Vol.
98, Issue 26, 14778-14783, December 18.
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Jaworowski, Zbigniew
(2004)
Climate
Change: Incorrect information on pre-industrial CO2,
Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation, Washington, D.C., March.
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Legates, David R., (2005)
Climate and Water: Precipitation, Evapotranspiration, &
Hydroclimatological Aspects, in
J. Norwine, J. Giardino and S. Krishnamurthy's (eds.)
Water for Texas.
College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press,
149152.
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Legates, David R. (2003) Revising
1,000 Years of Climate History,
NCPA Brief. National Center for Policy Analysis,
Washington, D.C. August 8.
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Lindzen, Richard S. (2001)
"The Press Gets It Wrong",
WSJ.com Opinion Journal, 11 June.
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Lindzen, Richard S. (2001) "On
the Climate Change Debate,"
U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public
Works, May 2, 2001.
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Lindzen, Richard (1998)"A
Contrarian Voice,"
by Richard Lindzen, Regulation, Vol. 21, No. 2,
Spring, p. 10f.
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Lindzen, Richard S. (1997) "Reflections
on Kyoto," Los
Angeles Times, December 12, 1997.
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Lindzen, Richard S. (1997) "Statement
Concerning Global Warming,"
U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public
Works, July 10, 1997.
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Lindzen, Richard S. (1991) "Statement
on Global Climate Change,"
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science,
Space and Technology, October 8, 1991.
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Lucarini, V. (2002) Towards
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McIntyre, Stephen and Ross McKitrick
(2005) Hockey
Sticks, Principal Components and Spurious Significance,
Geophysical Research LettersVol. 32,
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Murton, J.B., C.A. Whiteman, R.I.
Waller, W. Pollard, I.D. Clark and S.R. Dallimore
(2005) Basal
ice facies and supraglacial melt-out till of the
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Quaternary Science Reviews, 24: 681-708.
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Patterson, Tim (2005) The
Geologic Record and Climate Change,
Risk:
Regulation and Reality Conference, October 7, Toronto,
Ontario.
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Pielke, Jr., R.A.,
Landsea, C., Emanuel, K., Mayfield, M., Laver, J., and
Pasch, R. (2005) Hurricanes
and Global Warming,
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Segalstad, Tom
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Shaviv, Nir J. (2004) Cosmic
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Soon, Willie (2000) "Comments
on New Danish Solar Study,"
April 2, Washington, DC: The Marshall Institute.
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Soon, Willie (2000) "Solar
Variability and Climate Change,"
January 10, Washington, DC:
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Spencer, R.W., and J.R. Christy, (2003)
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Tennekes,
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Vergano, Dan (2007) Study:
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Global Warming Produces Increased Storm Intensity and Frequency
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