A Study of Global Warming: Jump List of References

I am ashamed to admit that i have not studied the literature sufficiently to be convinced that global warming is a real problem that needs to be urgently addressed. Consequently i have started this jump list to put the literature i find in one place in a organized fashion.

I have chosen (arbitrarily

) the icon "

" to label references which supports the bolded proposition, and "

" to label references which do not. I will organize each major catagory such that what i have determined to be the most important will be listed on the top of that catagory.

Please limit your comments on this item to helping build this organized list ... polarizing rhetoric will be deleted ... however new references and reasoned arguments regarding my classifications or prioritizations are certainly solicited. If a group of level headed commenters emerges, then we can form a group here or wherver and the study can continue without my dictatorial control.

encyclopedic presentations

Wikipedia

encyclopedic presentations

none that i know of yet

emotional media and rhetoric designed to win hearts and minds

An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore

emotional media and rhetoric designed to win hearts and minds

Hurricane expert William Gray: Global warming is a hoax. see also Global-warming skeptics continue to punch away and many others citing William Gray's message .

Summaries of the scientific consensus

The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change by Naomi Oreskes

Summaries of the scientific consensus

Open Kyoto to debate: Sixty scientists call on Harper to revisit the science of global warming

International Bodies and treaties addressing the issue

IPCC The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis

The National Academy of Sciences "Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years (2006)" prepared for the US Congress.
Kyoto Protocol ...
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ...

International Bodies and treaties addressing the issue

Global Climate Coalition (GCC). google Global Climate Coalition ... see also How Big Business Covered Up Global Warming by Aaron Swartz here and this article at The Center For Media and Democracy... also study E-mail correspondence between S. Fred Singer and Ben Santer ... It's difficult to find an unbiased positive presentation of this material but i am still looking. The GCC has disbanded saying "The industry voice on climate change has served its purpose by contributing to a new national approach to global warming". We need to determine just what that new approach was.

Sources of media and information that has not yet been classified:

Climate Change: Senate EPW's Wheeler defends committee stance on global warming science (05/25/2006) a video
Tim Flannery, author of "The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth", discusses various "tipping points" that exist within the Earth's climate, and why these changes could prove to be irreversible. a video

Obviously this is still a very partual list. It is a work in progress. It will probably appear again and again in the river as i complete my inquiry.

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Seth says

exxonsecrets.org Documenting Exxon-Mobil's funding of climate change skeptics. They have a list of organizations purported to be funded by Exxon-Mobile and a flash presentation. They list Professor Bob Carter who is quoted in Scientists respond to Gore's warnings of climate catastrophe like this.

Seth says

M 2006-06-14 09:26:26 3708
Source: canadafreepress.com

This article Scientists response to Gore from the CFP (Canada Free Press) - gives a balancing view of Gore's perspective on Global Warming - please factor it in to your study.

Seth says

M 2006-06-15 09:36:13 3708

nodes in the network of science might look like point-of-view/source-of-funds/researcher/topic/paper/date/conclusion/details/data or something like that.

Yes definitely ... something like it. We will be getting into the scientific nodes and i am not sure how they will be structured. My approach is to get substance prior to building in structure. When the real matters emerge, the source of funds ends up being just meta information about sources and not meta information about facts and reasoning. I'm thinking that the scientific nodes should each pose a proposition. The content of the node should present facts, studies, and reasoning in support or against that proposition. The objective, of course, is to arrive at a determination regarding the validity of the proposition ... it is not to just create longer and longer lists.

Seth says

M 2006-06-23 08:33:37 3708

I keep wondering why this item pops up to the top. I don't mind it doing so. I do wonder what has changed since the last time it bubbled up.

Good point. Now every time i update, i will post a

icon next to the item that is new

John says
http://www.drroyspencer.com/global-warming-101/

A Study of Global Warming: Jump List of References

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