An Archive of Resources on Global Warming

"No credible peer-reviewed scientist in the world disagrees any longer that
the globe is warming and that humans are causing it."


- Laurie David, Producer 'An Inconvenient Truth'

 

 

"Political decisions based on the statement 'the science is settled' have a guaranteed short life."

 

Ian Plimer - Geologist and Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, and

author of Heaven and Earth: Global Warming the Missing Science (2009)

 

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

twimber@fgcu.edu

 

 
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.      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.

4.      BBC (2007) IPCC Warming Report Blames Humans, February 2.

5.      BBC (2007)  The Big Chill (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)

6.      Baliunas, Sallie (2007) On Global Warming and the Climate of Fear. The Independent Institute.

7.      Beck, Glenn (2007) Exposed: Climate of Fear, CNN Headlines News.

8.      Burkitt, Dave (2007) The Great Meltdown. Journeyman Films.

9.      Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) (2006) The Denial Machine.

10.  Carlin, George (2008) Riff on Global Warming.

11.  Carter, Bob (2008) Testing the Hypothesis of Dangerous Human-Caused Global Warming. Part 1, Part 2.

12.  CNET.News (2008) Climate Change: Why All the Argument? New York: NY.

13.  C-Span (2009) Climate of Extremes. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

14.  Coleman, John (2009) Roger Revelle - Originator of the CO2 Global Warming Theory Admits It Was Wrong Before He Died March 29, KUSI News Meterologist.

15.  Coleman, John (2008) Global Warming: the Greatest Scam in History. Sppech delivered to the Annual Meeting of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, Phoenix, AZ.

16.  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.

17.  Crichton, Michael (2007) States of Fear: Science or Politics? The Independent Institute and Environmentalism as Religion, C-SPAN-2, Students and Leaders Series.

18.  Discovery Channel (2007) Beyond Global Warming.

19.  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.

20.  Dyson, Freeman (2007) Stratospheric Cooling & Global Warming, part one and part two.

21.  Fox News (2009) “Suppressed" Climate Change Report Author Speaks Out on Fox News.

22.  Fox News (2006) Global Warming: The Debate Continues.

23.  Gore, Albert (2008) Al Gore’s New Thinking on the Climate Crisis. TED Talks.

24.  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).

25.  Gore, Al (2006) "15 Ways to Avert A Climate Crisis," February, TED Talks.

26.  History Channel (2007) Global Warming, Global Warming, Global Warming, Megafreeze.

27.  Idea Channel (2008) Unstoppable Solar Cycles.

28.  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.

29.  Intelligence Squared U.S. (2007) (Town Hall Debate) The Global Warming Debate (A ten part set of debate clips) broadcast on PBS and NPR.

30.  International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Federations (2008) The Human Face Of Climate Change. New York, NY.

31.  Leahy, Dour (2007) Climate Catastrophe Canceled (2007) Friends of Science (Canada) (Also available on Youtube.com)

32.  Lomborg, Bjorn (2005) "An Economists View of Saving the World," February, TED Talks (Canada), University of Copenhagen.

33.  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.

34.  Mendelsohn, Carol (2006) The Denial Machine. Canadian Broadcast Corporation and The Climate Change Denial Industry  (2006) Global TV News.

35.  Meyer, Warren (2007) What is Normal? Climate Video. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

36.  Mortensen, Lars O. (2008) The Cloud Mystery. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, TV2-Denmark.

37.  Mortensen, Lars O. (2004) Global Warming - Doomsday Called Off . (Also available at Google) Copenhagen, DK: Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK).

38.  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.

39.  QuantumShift, (2007) Soil: The Secret Solution to Global Warming, Rodale Institute. 

40.  Robinson, Art (2008) "Global Warming Lecture," The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, Cave Junction, OR.

41.  Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) (Institute of Ideas) (2008) The Science and Politics Climate Science. London, UK.

42.  Scripps Research Institute (2009) Revelle Centennial: Climate Change and Scientists. Roger Revelle Centennial Symposium Series, La Jolla, CA.

43.  Sommerville, Richard (2007) Global Warming: Climate Change, and Public Policy. Osher Lecture Series, University of California Santa Barbara, UCTV.

44.  Sourcecode (2007) Cost of Carbon Trading and Climate Change is Real,  Washington, DC.

45.  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.

46.  Svensmark, Henrik () 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.

47.  Taylor, Jerry (2007) The Global Warming Report. Washington, DC: The Cato Institute.

48.  United Nations (2007) Ethical Dimensions Of Climate Change. United Nations Panel on Ethics and Climate Change, New York, NY.

49.  Watson, Robert (2006) World Bank Chief Scientist Part One Interview. November, 20  (Parts Two and Three).

 

 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.      Gwynne, Peter (1975) "The Cooling World," Newsweek. April 28, p. 64

3.      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.

4.      Hogan, James (2007) “Familiar Tunes (On Climate Change),” Jamesphogan.com

5.      Ifft, George Nicholas (1922) “The Changing Arctic,” Monthly Weather Review. (November).

6.      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.

7.      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.

8.      New York Times (1895) “Geologists Think the World May Be  Frozen Up Again,” February 24.

9.      New York Times (1912) “Sees Glacial Era Coming: Prof. Schmidt Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age,” October, 7.

10.  New York Times (1933) “America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776: Temperature Line Records a 25 Year Rise,” May, 27.

11.  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.

12.  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.

13.  Schmeck, Harold M. (1975) "Climate Changes Called Ominous," New York Times, June 19, p. 35f.

14.  Schmeck, Harold M. (1974) "Climate Changes Endanger World's Food Output," New York Times, August 8, p. 35.

15.  Sullivan, Walter (1975) "Scientists Ask Why World Climate is Changing," New York Times, May 21.

16.  Time Magazine (1974) "Another Ice Age," June 24.

17.  U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Minority Report (2008) "More than 650 International Scientists Dissent over Man-Made  Global Warming Claims - Scientists Continue to Debunk "Consensus" in 2008"

 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). 

2.      Haines, Allison (2007) "U.K. judge rules Gore film 'exaggerated," National Post (Canada), November 5. 

3.      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). 

4.      Michaels, Patrick J. (2007) "Inconvenient Truths," National Review Online. (Feb. 23).

5.      Monckton, Christopher (2007) "35 Inconvenient Truths: The Errors in Al Gore's Movie," Science and Public Policy Institute. Washington, D.C., October 18.

6.      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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