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

 

 

 Global Warming and Increased Frequency and Intensity or Storms: Scientists Disagreeing with the Premise that Global Warming Produces Increased Storm Intensity and Frequency 

1.      Balling, R. C. and R. S. Cerveny, (2003) "Compilation and discussion of trends in severe storms in the United States: Popular perception vs. climate reality," Natural Hazards, Vol. 29, pp. 103-112.

2.      Changnon, Stanley A., Changnon, David,  Fosse, E. Ray, Hoganson, Donald C., Roth Sr., Richard J., and James M. Totsch, James, M.  (1997) “Effects of Recent Weather Extremes on the Insurance Industry: Major Implications for the Atmospheric Sciences,” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Vol. 78, Issue, 3, p. 425-435. 

3.      Emanuel, Kerry, Sundararajan, Ragoth, and Williams, John (2008) "Hurricanes and Global Warming: Results from Downscaling IPCC AR4 Simulations," Journal of the American Meteorological Society, (March), p. 347-367.

4.      Emanuel, K.A. (2006) "Anthropogenic Effects on Tropical Cyclone Activity," January, MIT. 

5.      Keim, Barry, D., Muller, Robert A., Gregory W. Stone, Gregory W. (2004) “Spatial and temporal variability of coastal storms in the North Atlantic Basin,” Marine Geology. Vol. 210, p. 7-15. 

6.      Khandekar, M. L. (2002) Trends and Changes in extreme weather events: An assessment with focus on Alberta and Canadian Prairies. Rept. Prepared for Alberta Environment, ISBN:0-7785-2428-0, October 2002, 56 p.   

7.      Knutson, Thomas R., Sirutis, Joseph J., Garner, Stephen T., Vecchi, Gabriel A. and Held, Isaac M. (2008) "Simulated Reduction in Atlantic Hurricane Frequency Under Twenty-First Century Warming Conditions," Natural Geoscience, (June), Vol. 1, p. 359-364.

8.      Korty, Robert L., Emanuel, Kerry A., and Scott, Jeffery R. (2008) "Tropical Cyclone - Induced Upper-Ocean Mixing and Climate: Application to Equable Climates," Journal of Climate, Vol. 21, p. 638-654. 

9.      Landsea, Christopher W. (2007) “Counting Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Back to 1900,” Science, Vol. 88 No. 18, (May) pp. 197-208.

10.  Landsea, C.W., B.A. Harper, K. Hoarau, and J.A. Knaff (2006) "Can we detect trends in extreme tropical cyclones?," Science Vol. 313, pp. 452-454. 

11.  Landsea, C. W. (2005) "Hurricanes and global warming," Nature, Vol. 438, ppl. E11-13.

12.  Landsea, C. W. (2005) “Open Letter to IPCC,” (Response to release of the IPCC report on global warming, Jan. 17.

13.  Michaels, P. J., P. C. Knappenberger, and C. W. Landsea (2005) "Comments on "Impacts of CO2-Induced Warming on Simulated Hurricane Intensity and Precipitation: Sensitivity to the Choice of Climate Model and Convective Scheme," Journal of Climate. Vol.18, pp. 5179-5182.

14.  Nyberg, Johan Malmgren, Björn A., Winter, Amos, Jury, Mark R., Kilbourne, K. Halimeda and Quinn, Terrence M. (2008) “Is Recent Major Hurricane Activity Normal? Nature. Vol. 451, (February), p. E5-E6.

15.  Nyberg, Johan Malmgren, Björn A., Winter, Amos, Jury, Mark R., Kilbourne, K. Halimeda and Quinn, Terrence M. (2007) “Low Atlantic Hurricane Activity in the 1970s and1980s Compared to the Past 270 Years," Nature. Vol. 447, (June), p. 698-702.

16.  Pielke, Jr., R. A., C. W. Landsea, M. Mayfield, J. Laver, R. Pasch (2006) "Reply to Hurricanes and Global Warming Potential Linkages and Consequences," Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 87:628-631.

17.  Pielke, Jr., R. A., C. W. Landsea, M. Mayfield, J. Laver and R. Pasch (2005) "Hurricanes and Global Warming," Bulletin of the American Meteorological Association. Vol. 86, pp. 1571-1575.

18.  Pudsey, Carol J. and Evans, Jeffrey (2001) “First survey of Antarctic sub–ice shelf sediments reveals mid-Holocene ice shelf retreat,” Geology, Vol. 29, No. 9, p. 787-790.

19.  Trenberth, K. (2005) “Uncertainty in Hurricanes and Global Warming.” Science, Vol. 308, pp.1753-1754. 

20.  Usoskin, Ilya G., Solanki, Sami K., Schüssler, Manfred, Mursula, Kalevi and Alanko, Katja (2003) "A Millennium Scale Sunspot Reconstruction: Evidence For an Unusually Active Sun Since the 1940's," Physical Review Letters, Vol. 91.

21.  Webster, P. J., Holland, G. J., Curry, J. A., and Chang, H. R. (2005) "Change in Tropical Cyclone Number, Duration, and Intensity in a Warming Environment," Science Magazine, (September 16), p. 1844-1866.

22.  Yu, F. (2004) “Formation of large NAT particles and de-nitrification in polar stratosphere: possible role of cosmic rays and effect of solar activity,” Atmospheric Chemical Physics. Vol. 4, p. 2273-2283.

23.  Zhang, Keqi,  Douglas, Bruce C., and Leatherman, Stephen P. (2000) “Twentieth-Century Storm Activity along the U.S. East Coast,” Journal of Climate. Vol. 13, Issue 10, p. 1748-1761.

 

Global Warming Induced Flooding Skeptics

1.      Cronin, Thomas M. (1999) “Sea-Level Change,” in Principles of Paleo-climatology: Perspectives in Paleobiology and Earth History. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

2.      Douglas, B. C. and Peltier, W. R. “The Puzzle of Global Sea-Level Rise,” Physics Today. Vol. 55, 34-40. 

3.      Douglas, B. C., R. E. Cheney, L. Miller, W. E. Carter, and D. S. Robertson, (1990) “Greenland ice sheet; is it growing or shrinking?” Science 248, 288.           

4.      Douglas, B. C. and Peltier, Richard (2002) “The Puzzle of Global sea level rise,” Physics Today. March. 

5.      Douglas, B. C. (1992) “Global sea level acceleration,” Journal of Geophysical Research. Vol.  97(C8), No.. 12, pp. 699-12,706.

6.      Ekman, M. (1999) “Climate changes detected through the world’s longest sea level series,” Global and Planetary Change, 21, 215-224.

7.      Mason, O.W. and Jordan, J.W. (2002) “Minimal late Holocene sea level rise in the Chukchi Sea: Arctic insensitivity to global change?”  Global and Planetary Changes 32: 13-23.

8.      Morner, N.A. (1979) “The Fennoscandinavian uplift and late Cenozoic geodynamics: Geological evidence,” Geojournal 3.3:287–318.

9.      Morner, N.A. (2008) “Paleoseismicity and Uplift of Sweden,Findings of the International Geological Convention Survey  No 11, A: July 30–August 5, B: August 15–19.

10.  Morner, N.A. (1981) “Revolution in Cretaceous sea-level analysis,” Geology 9:344–346.

11.  Morner, N.A. and W. Karlen, eds. (1984) “Climatic Changes on a Yearly to Millennial Basis,” Dordrecht: D. Reidel.

12.  Morner, N.A. (2004) “Estimating Future Sea Level Changes from Past Records,” Global and Planetary Change 40, issues 1-2 (January 2004): 49-54.

13.  Proshutinsky, A., Pavlov, V., and Bourke, R. H. (2001) “Sea Level Rise in the Arctic Ocean, Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 28, No. 11, (June 1), p. 2237-2240.

14.  Reeh, N., H.H. Thomsen, O.B. Olesen, and W. Starzer (1997) “Mass balance of north Greenland,Science, 278, 207-209.

15.  Reeh, N., C. Mayer, H. Miller, H.H. Thomson, and A. Weidick (1999) “Present and past climate control on fjord glaciations in Greenland: implications for IRD-deposition in the sea,” Geophysical Research Letters, 26, 1039-1042.

16.  Thomas, R., Akins, T., Csatho, B., Fahnestock, M., Gogineni, P., Kim, C and Sonntag, J. (2000) “Mass Balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet at High Elevations,” Science. Vol. 289, (July 21), p. 426-427.

17.  Varekamp, J. C., E. Thomas, and O. van de Plassche. (1992) “Relative sea-level rise and climate change over the last 1500 years,” Terra Nova 4:293–304.

18.  Wadhams, Peter and Munk, Walter (2004) “Ocean freshening, sea level rising, sea ice melting,Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 31, L11311.

 

Anti-CO2 Global Warming Petitions

 

The Oregon Petition

The Leipzig Declaration;

The Heidelberg Appeal (A response to the global warming provisions of Rio, but not specifically an Anti-Global Warming petition.),

Copenhagen Consensus,

Open Letter From 60 Scientists to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Carter

Cato Institute Open Letter to President Obama Regarding Administration's Climate Change Policy

Prominent Anti-CO2 Global Warming Critics

 

Here are web links to a number of prominent (not marginalized) scientists who challenge the CO2 theory of global arming. These scientists are known as "global warming skeptics," "dissenters," or "contrarians." Such scientists are often under-recognized in the global warming debate as reflected in a recent editorial series by Canadian Journalist Lawrence Solomon in the National Post, and as recently noted in the Christian Science Monitor and the  Boston Globe. Solomon's twenty-seven week series on these critics of the IPCC report on global warming is illuminating and clearly illustrates that these people are not "fringe" academics or people speaking beyond their range of expertise. Likewise it contradicts the assertion by others that these people have ideological or financial grounds for assuming the positions they have taken. Below, you will find the links to each of these articles from the "Deniers" editorial series in the National Post.

Solomon, Lawrence (2006) “Statistics needed -- The Deniers Part I,” National Post, November 28.

Solomon, Lawrence (2006) “Warming is real -- and has benefits -- The Deniers Part II,” National Post, December 1.

Solomon, Lawrence (2006) “The hurricane expert who stood up to UN junk science -- The Deniers Part III,” National Post, December 8.

Solomon, Lawrence (2006) “Polar scientists on thin ice -- The Deniers Part IV,” National Post, December 15.

Solomon, Lawrence (2006) “The original denier: into the cold -- The Deniers Part V,” National Post, December 22.

Solomon, Lawrence (2006) “The sun moves climate change -- The Deniers Part VI,” National Post, January 5.

Solomon, Lawrence (2007) “Will the sun cool us? -- The Deniers Part VII,” National Post, January 12.

Solomon, Lawrence (2007) “The limits of predictability -- The Deniers Part VIII,” National Post, January 19.

Solomon, Lawrence (2007) “Look to Mars for the truth on global warming -- The Deniers Part IX,” National Post, January 26.

Solomon, Lawrence (2007) “Limited role for C02 -- the Deniers Part X,” National Post, February 2.

Solomon, Lawrence (2007) “End the chill -- The Deniers Part XI,” National Post, February 9.

Solomon, Lawrence (2007) “Clouded research -- The Deniers Part XII,” National Post, February 23.

Solomon, Lawrence (2007) “Allegre's second thoughts -- The Deniers XIII,” National Post, March 2.

Solomon, Lawrence (2007) “The heat's in the sun -- The Deniers XIV,” National Post, March 9.

Solomon, Lawrence (2007) “Unsettled Science -- The Deniers XV,” National Post, March 14.

Solomon, Lawrence (2007) “Bitten by the IPCC – The Deniers XVI,” National Post, March 23.

Solomon, Lawrence (2007) “Little ice age is still within us -- The Deniers XVII,” National Post, March 30.

Solomon, Lawrence (2007) “Fighting climate 'fluff' -- The Deniers XVIII,” National Post, April 5.

Solomon, Lawrence (2007) “Science, not politics -- The Deniers XIX,” National Post, April 13.

Solomon, Lawrence (2007) “Gore's guru disagreed -- The Deniers XX,” National Post, April 28.

Solomon, Lawrence (2007) “The ice-core man -- The Deniers XXI,” National Post, May 4.

Solomon, Lawrence (2007) “Some restraint in Rome -- The Deniers XXII,” National Post, May 11.

Solomon, Lawrence (2007) “Discounting Logic - The Deniers, Part XXIII,” National Post, May 18.

Solomon, Lawrence (2007) “Dire forecasts aren't new -- The Deniers XXIV,” National Post, May 25.

Solomon, Lawrence (2007) “They call this a consensus? – The Deniers Part XXV,” National Post, June 2.

Solomon, Lawrence (2007) “NASA chief Michael Griffin silenced – The Deniers Part XXVI,” National Post, June 8.

Solomon, Lawrence (2007) “Forget warming – beware the new ice age – The Deniers Part XXVII,” National Post, June 15.

These scientists often find themselves regualarly vilified by critics like the Environmental Defense Fund, as illustrated in a recent MediaMatters.com expose and as reported by Cbyercast News, Human Events, and in Environmental News. To a lesser degree this phenomenon has also been alleged to have been directed toward scientists who support the IPCC report on global warming (See the Newscientist.com).

1.                  Syun-Ichi Akasofu

2.                   Bruce Ames

3.                   Sallie Baliunas

4.                   Tim Ball

5.                   Robert Balling

6.                   Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen

7.                   Robert Bradley

8.                   Nigel Calder

9.                   Randall Cerveny

10.              Kenneth Chilton

11.              John Christy

12.              Ian Clark

13.              Richard Courtney

14.              Robert Davis

15.              Chris de Freitas

16.              Peter Dietze

17.              Freeman Dyson

18.              Myron Ebell

19.              Robert Essenhigh

20.              Christopher Essex

21.              Michael Fox

22.              Oliver Frauenfeld

23.              Lee Gerhard

24.              Indur Goklany

25.              Vincent Gray

26.              William Gray

27.              Kenneth Green

28.              Howard Hayden

29.              Ben Herman

30.              Chris Horner

31.              William Kininmonth

32.              Hans Labohm

33.              Christopher Landsea

34.              David Legates

35.              Jay Lehr

36.              Marlo Lewis

37.              Henry Linden

38.              Richard Lindzen

39.              Bjorn Lomborg

40.              Anthony R. Lupo

41.              Ross McKitrick

42.              Patrick Michaels

43.              Steven Milloy

44.              Iain Murray

45.              R. Timothy Patterson

46.              Benny Peiser

47.              Alfred Pekarek

48.              Roger Pielke

49.              Ian Plimer

50.              Eric Posmentier

51.              Joel Schwartz

52.              Frederick Seitz

53.              S. Fred Singer

54.              Willie Soon

55.              Roy Spencer

56.              Henrik Svensmark

57.              Gordon Swaters

58.              George Taylor

59.              James Taylor

60.              Margo Thorning

61.              G. Cornelis van Kooten

62.              Boris Winterhalter

63.              David Wojick

64.              Antonino Zichichi 

Also there are these scholars – presented in a random order.

Dr. Tad Murty, former senior research scientist, Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans, former director of Australia's National Tidal Facility and professor of earth sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide; currently adjunct professor, Departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa

Dr. Fred Michel, director, Institute of Environmental Science and associate professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa

Dr. Madhav Khandekar, former research scientist, Environment Canada. Member of editorial board of Climate Research and Natural Hazards

Dr. Paul Copper, FRSC, professor emeritus, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ont.

Dr. Andreas Prokoph, adjunct professor of earth sciences, University of Ottawa; consultant in statistics and geology

Mr. David Nowell, M.Sc. (Meteorology), fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, Canadian member and past chairman of the NATO Meteorological Group, Ottawa

Dr. L. Graham Smith, associate professor, Dept. of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont.

Dr. Petr Chylek, adjunct professor, Dept. of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax

Dr./Cdr. M. R. Morgan, FRMS, climate consultant, former meteorology advisor to the World Meteorological Organization. Previously research scientist in climatology at University of Exeter, U.K.

Dr. Keith D. Hage, climate consultant and professor emeritus of Meteorology, University of Alberta

Rob Scagel, M.Sc., forest microclimate specialist, principal consultant, Pacific Phytometric Consultants, Surrey, B.C.

Dr. Douglas Leahey, meteorologist and air-quality consultant, Calgary

Paavo Siitam, M.Sc., agronomist, chemist, Cobourg, Ont.

Dr. R.M. Carter, professor, Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

Dr. Hendrik Tennekes, former director of research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

Dr. Gerrit J. van der Lingen, geologist/paleoclimatologist, Climate Change Consultant, Geoscience Research and Investigations, New Zealand

Dr. Nils-Axel Morner, emeritus professor of paleogeophysics & geodynamics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Dr. Gary D. Sharp, Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study, Salinas, Calif.

Dr. Marcel Leroux, professor emeritus of climatology, University of Lyon, France; former director of Laboratory of Climatology, Risks and Environment, CNRS

Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski, physicist and chairman, Scientific Council of Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection, Warsaw, Poland

Dr. Hans H.J. Labohm, former advisor to the executive board, Clingendael Institute (The Netherlands Institute of International Relations) and an economist who has focused on climate change

Dr. Lee C. Gerhard, senior scientist emeritus, University of Kansas, past director and state geologist, Kansas Geological Survey

Dr. Asmunn Moene, past head of the Forecasting Centre, Meteorological Institute, Norway

Dr. August H. Auer, past professor of atmospheric science, University of Wyoming; previously chief meteorologist, Meteorological Service (MetService) of New Zealand

Dr. Jack Barrett, chemist and spectroscopist, formerly with Imperial College London, U.K.

Dr. William J.R. Alexander, professor emeritus, Dept. of Civil and Biosystems Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Member, United Nations Scientific and Technical Committee on Natural Disasters, 1994-2000

Dr. Harry N.A. Priem, emeritus professor of planetary geology and isotope geophysics, Utrecht University; former director of the Netherlands Institute for Isotope Geosciences; past president of the Royal Netherlands Geological & Mining Society

Dr. Robert H. Essenhigh, E.G. Bailey professor of energy conversion, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University

Douglas Hoyt, senior scientist at Raytheon (retired) and co-author of the book The Role of the Sun in Climate Change; previously with NCAR, NOAA, and the World Radiation Center, Davos, Switzerland

Dipl.-Ing. Peter Dietze, independent energy advisor and scientific climate and carbon modeller, official IPCC reviewer, Bavaria, Germany

Dr. Boris Winterhalter, senior marine researcher (retired), Geological Survey of Finland, former professor in marine geology, University of Helsinki, Finland

Dr. Wibjorn Karlen, emeritus professor, Dept. of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Sweden

Dr. Hugh W. Ellsaesser, physicist/meteorologist, previously with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Calif.; atmospheric consultant.

Dr. Art Robinson, founder, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, Cave Junction, Ore.

Dr. Arthur Rorsch, emeritus professor of molecular genetics, Leiden University, The Netherlands; past board member, Netherlands organization for applied research (TNO) in environmental, food and public health

Dr. Alister McFarquhar, Downing College, Cambridge, U.K.; international economist

 Then their are these global warming skeptics which appear on a list kept by the U.S. Senate Committee on Public Works:

Geophysicist Dr. Claude Allegre, a top geophysicist and French Socialist who has authored more than 100 scientific articles and written 11 books and received numerous scientific awards including the Goldschmidt Medal from the Geochemical Society of the United States, converted from climate alarmist to skeptic in 2006...

Geologist Bruno Wiskel of the University of Alberta recently reversed his view of man-made climate change and instead became a global warming skeptic. Wiskel was once such a big believer in man-made global warming that he set out to build a “Kyoto house” in honor of the UN sanctioned Kyoto Protocol which was signed in 1997. Wiskel wanted to prove that the Kyoto Protocol’s goals were achievable by people making small changes in their lives. But after further examining the science behind Kyoto, Wiskel reversed his scientific views completely...

Astrophysicist Dr. Nir Shaviv, one of Israel's top young award winning scientists, recanted his belief that manmade emissions were driving climate change. ""Like many others, I was personally sure that CO2 is the bad culprit in the story of global warming. But after carefully digging into the evidence, I realized that things are far more complicated than the story sold to us by many climate scientists or the stories regurgitated by the media...."

Mathematician & engineer Dr. David Evans, who did carbon accounting for the Australian Government, recently detailed his conversion to a skeptic. “I devoted six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian government to estimate carbon emissions from land use change and forestry. When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty conclusive, but since then new evidence has weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause. I am now skeptical,”...

Climate researcher Dr. Tad Murty, former Senior Research Scientist for Fisheries and Oceans in Canada, also reversed himself from believer in man-made climate change to a skeptic. “I stated with a firm belief about global warming, until I started working on it myself,”...

Botanist Dr. David Bellamy, a famed UK environmental campaigner, former lecturer at Durham University and host of a popular UK TV series on wildlife, recently converted into a skeptic after reviewing the science and now calls global warming fears "poppycock."...

Climate scientist Dr. Chris de Freitas of The University of Auckland, N.Z., also converted from a believer in man-made global warming to a skeptic. “At first I accepted that increases in human caused additions of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere would trigger changes in water vapor etc. and lead to dangerous ‘global warming,’ But with time and with the results of research, I formed the view that, although it makes for a good story, it is unlikely that the man-made changes are drivers of significant climate variation.”...

Meteorologist Dr. Reid Bryson, the founding chairman of the Department of Meteorology at University of Wisconsin (now the Department of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, was pivotal in promoting the coming ice age scare of the 1970’s ( See Time Magazine’s 1974 article “Another Ice Age” citing Bryson: & see Newsweek’s 1975 article “The Cooling World” citing Bryson) has now converted into a leading global warming skeptic.

Global warming author and economist Hans H.J. Labohm started out as a man-made global warming believer but he later switched his view after conducting climate research...

Paleoclimatologist Tim Patterson, of Carlton University in Ottawa converted from believer in C02 driving the climate change to a skeptic. “I taught my students that CO2 was the prime driver of climate change,” Patterson wrote on April 30, 2007. Patterson said his “conversion” happened following his research on “the nature of paleo-commercial fish populations in the NE Pacific.”...

Physicist Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski, chairman of the Central Laboratory for the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Radiological Protection in Warsaw, took a scientific journey from a believer of man-made climate change in the form of global cooling in the 1970’s all the way to converting to a skeptic of current predictions of catastrophic man-made global warming...

Paleoclimatologist Dr. Ian D. Clark, professor of the Department of Earth Sciences at University of Ottawa, reversed his views on man-made climate change after further examining the evidence. “I used to agree with these dramatic warnings of climate disaster. I taught my students that most of the increase in temperature of the past century was due to human contribution of C02. The association seemed so clear and simple. Increases of greenhouse gases were driving us towards a climate catastrophe,” Clark said in a 2005 documentary "Climate Catastrophe Cancelled: What You're Not Being Told About the Science of Climate Change.”...

Environmental geochemist Dr. Jan Veizer, professor emeritus of University of Ottawa, converted from believer to skeptic after conducting scientific studies of climate history. “I simply accepted the (global warming) theory as given,” Veizer wrote on April 30, 2007 about predictions that increasing C02 in the atmosphere was leading to a climate catastrophe. “The final conversion came when I realized that the solar/cosmic ray connection gave far.

Organizational Resources on the Global Warming Debate (As provided by PBS)

Climate Change Science Program
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program integrates federal research on climate and global change, as sponsored by thirteen federal agencies and overseen by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Council on Environmental Quality, the National Economic Council and the Office of Management and Budget. The Bush administration's August 2004 report to Congress can be found on the site.

Climate Choices
A project of the Union of Concerned Scientists, Climate Changes focuses on California's future, and positions the state as a test case for exploring the impacts of climate change, noting that "emission reductions in California could help lead our nation to transition to more sustainable energy, vehicle, and land-use polices, ultimately affecting a significant percentage of world heat-trapping gas emissions." The site offers details on some of the "innovative solutions" that address global warming.

BBC News: Global warning?
The BBC's archive of articles and interactive features on global warming includes charts and maps, an energy quiz, background on the science of climate change, and more.

EPA's Global Warming Site
The EPA's site gathers information on climate, emissions, impacts, actions, and news on the topic of global warming. The site features a section on what individuals can do to make a difference.

Harte Laboratory
The Harte Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, headed by Professor John Harte, studies the effects of human actions on, and the linkages among, biogeochemical processes, ecosystem structure and function, biodiversity, and climate. His research spans a range of scales from plot to landscape to global, and utilizes field investigations and mathematical modeling. A long term goal of the group is to understand the dependence of human well being on the health of ecosystem processes.
Read a recent profile of John Harte from MOTHER JONES
.

Global Warming
This web site is a project of the Cooler Heads Coalition, a sub-group of the National Consumer Coalition. According to the site, "The Cooler Heads Coalition was formed in 1997 to dispel the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, and risk analysis. Coalition members will also follow the progress of the international Global Climate Change Treaty negotiations." The group is part of Consumer Alert — "a national, non-profit membership organization for people concerned about excessive growth of government regulation at the national and state levels."

Heartland Institute Publications
The research and outreach organization views its mission as promoting "common-sense environmentalism." The Institute presents many articles critical of the idea of global warming.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The IPCC is the most authoritative source for statistics and figures on climate change. Visit this site to view the latest assessment reports, press releases, and graphics.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Online
The September 2004 edition of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine focuses on the science of global warming, and the detectable evidence in today's world that nature is undergoing changes. Excerpts of many of the articles are included in the magazine's online edition.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association answers frequently asked questions about global warming.

Pew Center on Global Climate Change
This nonprofit organization is "dedicated to providing credible information, straight answers, and innovative solutions in the effort to address global climate change." It provides information on the science behind climate change, the potential consequences of it, a glossary of relevant terms, and other valuable material.

U.S. Global Change Research Program
This site brings together information about federally funded research on global warming, changing ecosystems, the carbon cycle, the water cycle, and much more. It contains links to hundreds of U.S. and international science organizations.

What's Up With the Weather?
In "What's Up with the Weather?" NOVA and FRONTLINE join forces to investigate the science and politics of one of the most controversial issues of the 21st century: the truth about global warming.

Additional research and resources on climate change

 

Miskolczi Research on Global Warming

 

F.M. Miskolczi: Greenhouse effect in semi-transparent planetary atmospheres. Idojaras - Quarterly Journal of the Hungarian Meteorological Service, Vol. 111. No. 1. 2007.

 

 Kratz-Mlynczak-Mertens-Brindley-Gordley-Torres-Miskolczi-Turner: An inter-comparison of far-infrared line-by-line radiative transfer models. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer No. 90, 2005.

 

F.M. Miskolczi and M.G. Mlynczak: The greenhouse effect and the spectral decomposition of the clear-sky terrestrial radiation. Idojaras - Quarterly Journal of the Hungarian Meteorological Service, Vol.108, No. 4. 2004.

                                                     

Rizzi-Matricardi-Miskolczi: Simulation of uplooking and downlooking high-resolution radiance spectra with two different radiative transfer models. Applied Optics, Vol. 41. No. 6, 2002.

 

F. Miskolczi-R. Rizzi: High Accuracy Skin Temperature Retrieval Using Spectral Measurements of Multichannel IR Imagers. International Radiation Symposium, Madison, Visconsin, 1998.

 

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