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.
Horner, Chris (2007)
The
Politically Incorrect Guide to
Global Warming.
Washington, DC: Regenery Press.
7.
Houghton, John (2004)
Global
Warming: The Complete Briefing.
New York, NY: Cambridge University
Press.
8.
Imbrie, John & Katherine (1979)
Ice
Ages, Solving the Mystery.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press.
9.
Jaccard, Mark, Nyboer, John, and Sadownik, Bryn (2002)
Kyoto?
the Cost of Climate Policy.
Vancouver, BC: University of British
Columbia Press.
10.
Leroux, Marcel (2005)
Global
Warming - Myth or Reality?: The
Erring Ways of Climatology.
New York, NY: Springer Press. 20.
11.
Lomborg, Bjorn (2001)
The
Skeptical Environmentalist:
Measuring the Real State of the
World. New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press.
12.
Michaels, Patrick J. (2005)
Shattered Consensus: The Status of
Global Warming.
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
13.
Michaels, Patrick J. (2005)
Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion
of Global Warming by Scientists,
Politicians, and the Media.
Washington. DC: Cato
Institute.
14.
Michaels, Patrick J. (2000)
The
Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air
About Global Warming. DC:
Cato Institute.
15.
Pilkey, Orrin and Pilkey-Jarvis, Linda (2007)
Useless
Arithmetic: Why Environmental
Scientists Can't Predict the Future.
New York, NY: Columbia University
Press.
16.
Plimer, Ian (2009)
Heaven
and Earth: Global Warming the
Missing Science. New
York, NY: Taylor Trade Publishing.
17.
Reed, Alan (2006)
Precious
Air: The Kyoto Protocol and Profit
in the Global Warming Game.
Kansas City, MO: Leathers
Publishing.
18.
Singer, Fred S. and Avery, Dennis (2007)
Unstoppable Global Warming - Every
1,500 Years. Lanham,
MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
19.
Svensmark, Henrik and Calder, Nigel (2007)
The
Chilling Stars: The New Theory of
Climate Change. Blue
Ridge Summit, PA: Totem Books.
20.
Victor, David G. (2004)
The
Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and
the Struggle to Slow Global Warming.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press
21.
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.
Attenborough, David (2006) “The
Truth About Climate Change,”
CBC News.
4.
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.
5.
Bader, David (2007) “Climate
Change: What We Know and What We
Need to Learn,”
Science on Saturday. Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory.
6.
BBC (2007)
IPCC Warming Report Blames Humans,
February 2.
7.
BBC (2007) The Big Chill (Part
1,
Part 2,
Part 3,
Part 4,
Part 5)
8.
Baliunas, Sallie (2007)
On Global Warming and the Climate of
Fear.
The Independent Institute.
9.
Beck, Glenn (2007)
Exposed: Climate of Fear,
CNN Headlines News.
10.
Burkitt, Dave (2007)
The Great Meltdown.
Journeyman Films.
11.
Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) (2006)
The Denial Machine.
12.
Carlin, George (2008)
Riff on Global Warming.
13.
Carter, Bob (2008) Testing the Hypothesis of Dangerous
Human-Caused Global Warming.
Part 1,
Part 2.
14.
Cinchester, Bob
(2008)
Unstoppable Solar Cycles
The Idea Channel
15.
CNET.News (2008)
Climate Change: Why All the Argument?
New York: NY.
16.
C-Span (2009)
Climate of Extremes.
Part 1,
Part 2,
Part 3
17.
Coleman, John (2009)
Roger Revelle - Originator of the
CO2 Global Warming Theory Admits It
Was Wrong Before He Died
March 29, KUSI News Meterologist.
18.
Coleman, John (2008)
Global Warming: the Greatest Scam in
History. Sppech delivered to the Annual Meeting of Doctors for Disaster
Preparedness, Phoenix, AZ.
19.
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.
20.
Council on Foreign Relations (2009) “Tackling
Climate Change,”
Washington, DC.
21.
Crichton, Michael (2007)
States of Fear: Science or Politics?
The Independent Institute and
Environmentalism as Religion,
C-SPAN-2, Students and Leaders
Series.
22.
Discovery Channel (2007)
Beyond Global Warming.
23.
Durkin, Martin (2007)
The Great Global Warming Swindle
(Also available at
Google and 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.
24.
Dyson, Freeman (2007) Stratospheric Cooling & Global Warming,
part one and
part two.
25.
Fox News (2009) “Suppressed"
Climate Change Report Author Speaks
Out on Fox News.
26.
Fox News (2006)
Global Warming: The Debate Continues.
27.
Gelbspan, Ross and Seed, John (2006) “Climate
Change: Despair and Empowerment,”
28.
Gore, Albert (2008)
Al Gore’s New Thinking on the
Climate Crisis.
TED Talks.
29.
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).
30.
Gore, Al (2009) “Al
Gore Warns On Latest Climate Trends,”
TED Talks.
31.
Gore, All (2009) “Al
Gore on Climate Crisis,”
TED Talks.
32.
Gore, Al (2007) “Gore
On Nightline,” ABC
News.
33.
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).
34.
History Channel (2007)
Global Warming, Global Warming,
Global Warming, Megafreeze.
35.
Idea Channel (2008)
Unstoppable Solar Cycles.
36.
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.
37.
Institute of Ideas (2009) “The
Science and Politics of Climate
Change,” FOR A.tv.
38.
Intelligence Squared U.S. (2007) (Town Hall Debate)
The Global Warming Debate
(A ten part set of debate clips)
broadcast on PBS and NPR.
39.
International Federation of Red
Cross and Red Crescent Federations
(2008)
The Human Face Of Climate
Change. New York, NY.
40.
Lawson, Hillary (1990)
The Greenhouse Conspiracy.
The Lavoiser Group.
41.
Leahy, Dour (2007)
Climate Catastrophe Canceled
(2007) Friends of Science (Canada)
(Also available on
Youtube.com)
42.
Lomborg, Bjorn (2005) "An
Economists View of Saving the World,"
February, TED Talks (Canada),
University of Copenhagen.
43.
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.
44.
McKeowen, Bob (2006)
The Denial Machine.
CBC.CA, The Fifth Estate.
45.
Mendelsohn, Carol (2006)
The Climate Change Denial Industry
(2006) Global TV News.
46.
Meyer, Warren (2007)
What is Normal? Climate Video.
Part 1,
Part 2,
Part 3,
Part 4,
Part 5,
Part 6
47.
Mortensen, Lars O. (2008) The Cloud
Mystery.
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6, TV2-Denmark.
48.
Mortensen, Lars O. (2004)
Global Warming - Doomsday Called Off
.
(Also available
at
Google) Copenhagen, DK: Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK).
49.
National Geographic (2007)
“A
Way Forward: Facing Climate Change,”
50.
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.
51.
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.
52.
Plimer, Ian (2009) “Human Induced Climate Change,” (Part
1,
Part 2,
Part 3,
Part 4,
Part 5).
53.
Pilmer, Ian (2008) “Environmentalism
is the New Religion,”
FOR A.tv
54.
QuantumShift, (2007)
Soil: The Secret Solution to Global
Warming,
Rodale Institute.
55.
Robinson, Art (2008) "Global
Warming Lecture," The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, Cave Junction,
OR.
56.
Sackur, Stephen (2007) “Getting
a Grip on Greenland’s Future,”
BBC Production.
57.
Science
and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
(Institute of Ideas) (2008)
The Science and Politics Climate
Science. London, UK.
58.
Scripps Research Institute (2009)
Revelle Centennial: Climate Change
and Scientists.
Roger Revelle Centennial Symposium
Series, La Jolla, CA.
59.
Severinghaus, Jeff (2008) “Climate
Change Clues Frozen in Time,”
UCTV, La Jolla, CA.
60.
Sommerville, Richard (2007)
Global Warming: Climate Change, and
Public Policy. Osher Lecture Series, University of California Santa Barbara,
UCTV.
61.
Sourcecode (2007)
Cost of Carbon Trading and
Climate Change is Real, Washington, DC.
62.
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.
63.
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.
64.
Taylor, Jerry (2007)
The Global Warming Report. Washington, DC: The Cato Institute.
65.
United Nations (2007)
Ethical Dimensions Of Climate Change.
United Nations Panel on Ethics and
Climate Change, New York, NY.
66.
University of California, Berkeley
(2006) “Business
Perspectives on Climate Change,”
UCTV, La Jolla, CA.
67.
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.
68.
Watson, Robert (2006)
World Bank Chief Scientist Part One
Interview. November,
20 (Parts
Two and Three).
69.
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
The
Apocalyptic Media: Global Cooling &
Earlier Stories of Global Warming:
1.
Anderson, R. Warren and Gainor, Dan (2006) “Fire and Ice:
Journalists have warned of climate
change for 100 years, but can’t
decide weather we face an ice
age or warming,” Business and Media
Institute, Alexandria, VA.
2.
Butler, Myke (2009) “Representations of the Apocalypse
3.
Fisher, John (2008) “Bias in Media Coverage,” The New American.
(August 4), p. 24-28.
4.
Gwynne, Peter (1975) "The Cooling World," Newsweek. April 28,
p. 64
5.
Harley, W. S. (1978)
"Trends
and Variations of Mean Temperature
in the Lower Troposphere,
" AMS Monthly Weather Review,
Vol. 106, No. 3 (March), pp.
413-416.
6.
Hogan, James (2007) “Familiar
Tunes (On Climate Change),”
Jamesphogan.com
7.
Ifft, George Nicholas (1922) “The
Changing Arctic,”
Monthly Weather Review.
(November).
8.
Mitchell, J. Murray, Jr. (1971). "The Effect of Atmospheric Aerosols
on Climate with Special Reference to
Temperature near the Earth's
Surface." J. Applied Meteorology
10: 703-14.
9.
Mitchell, J. Murray, Jr. (1975). "A Reassessment of Atmospheric
Pollution as a Cause of Long-Term
Changes of Global Temperature." In
Global Effects of Environmental
Pollution, edited by S. Fred
Singer. Dordrecht: Reidel.
10.
New York Times (1895) “Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up
Again,” February 24.
11.
New York Times (1912) “Sees Glacial Era Coming: Prof. Schmidt Warns
Us of an Encroaching Ice Age,”
October, 7.
12.
New York Times (1933) “America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776:
Temperature Line Records a 25 Year
Rise,” May, 27.
13.
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.
Reeves, Robert W. et al., (2004) "Global Cooling and the Cold War -
And a Chilly Beginning for the U.S.
Climate Analysis Center?" NOAA,
National Weather Service, paper
presented at the International
Commission on the History of
Meteorology, July 8.
15.
Schmeck, Harold M. (1975) "Climate Changes Called Ominous," New
York Times, June 19, p. 35f.
16.
Schmeck, Harold M. (1974) "Climate Changes Endanger World's Food
Output," New York Times,
August 8, p. 35.
17.
Sullivan, Walter (1975) "Scientists Ask Why World Climate is
Changing," New York Times,
May 21.
18.
Time Magazine
(1974) "Another Ice Age," June 24.
19.
Tutt, Bryan (2009) “Frames In Reports and In Reporting: How Framing
Affects Global Warming Information
in the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change’s “Summary For
Policymakers” And In Documents
Written About The Report,”
Journal of
Technical Writing
and Communication.
Vol. 39(1) 43-55.
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,”
L’Express. Sept. 21
3.
Eccleston, Paul
(2008) "Himalayan
glaciers are at risk of disappearing
completely by 2035,"
Telegraph.co.uk.
4.
Hansen, James (1999)
"The
Global Warming Debate,"
NASA Goddard Institute for Space
Studies.
5.
IPCC, (2007)
Climate Change 2007.
(Working Group II) (Also
see
IPCC Reports).
6.
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.
7.
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.
8.
NASA, (2002) “Global
Warming,” Earth
Science Enterprise Series, NASA
Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
9.
National Public Radio (2007) “NASA
Administrator Not Sure Global
Warming A Problem, ”
Space Daily, May.
10.
Wang, James and Oppenheimer, Michael (2007)
Latest Myths and Facts on Global
Warming.
Environmental Defense Fund.
11.
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.
12.
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
1.
Bailey, Ronald (2006) “An
Inconvenient Truth: Gore as Climate
Exaggerator,” Reason
Magazine. (June 16).
1.
Haines, Allison (2007) "U.K.
judge rules Gore film 'exaggerated,"
National Post (Canada),
November 5.
2.
Harris, Tom (2006) “Al
Gore, Global warming, Inconvenient
Truth: Scientists respond to Gore's
warnings of climate catastrophe (The
“Inconvenient Truth is Indeed
Inconvenient to Alarmists),”
Canada Free Press.
(June 12)
3.
Michaels, Patrick J. (2007) "Inconvenient
Truths," National
Review Online. (Feb. 23).
4.
Monckton, Christopher (2007) "35
Inconvenient Truths: The Errors in
Al Gore's Movie," Science
and Public Policy Institute.
Washington, D.C., October 18.
5.
Singer, Fred (2003) "The
Revelle-Gore Story: Attempted
Political Suppression of Science,"
in M. Gough's The Alchemy of
Policymaking. Washington, DC:
Hoover Press.
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