Global Warming

On this page you will find links to various Audio / Video presentations and scientific papers on the topic of Global Warming. Our goal is to present Global Warming Science in a way that is easily understood by the general public. We use the term Global Warming rather than the term Climate Change because we see Global Warming as the cause and local Climate Change (or rather Climate Weirdness) as the effect.

The report below was commissioned by the World Bank’s Global Expert Team for Climate Change Adaptation. It spells out what the world would be like if it warmed by 4 degrees Celsius, which is what scientists are nearly unanimously predicting by the end of the century, without serious policy changes. It's an excellent read.

Skeptical about global warming being caused by humankind? Every scientist is skeptical; it's part of their job. Here's a pamphlet for those skeptics out there who would like a small, 'just the facts, please' kind of info package.

So what did we know about Anthropogenic Global Warming in 1980? Are all these warnings we hear today from Climate Scientists just a recent phenomenon? Check out this video which contains some unique historical footage.

This is an eye opening quarterly report from Jeremy Grantham on how commodity prices are changing and which countries are the largest consumers.

This is a paper by Dr. James Hanson et al examining the earth's energy imbalance. In it he addresses many aspects of Global Warming including trying to get a 'handle' on exactly what role aerosols play in this energy imbalance.

This is a 2009 report on American Infrastructure from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Infrastructure will be hard hit by local Climate Change.

Here is a copy of the latest white paper published by The Deutsche Bank Group for investors. "The purpose of this paper is to examine the many claims and counter-claims made in the public debate about climate change science."

The chemistry of Ocean Acidification is a new field of research. The oldest papers in the area go back only 10 or so years. Here is a FAQ sheet done by 27 scientists in 19 institutions across 5 countries who specialize in investigating the phenomena which produce Ocean Acidification.

It's been said that only 2 of every 100 people in the developed world really understand the climate science behind Global Warming. One of the major reasons for this is time. Most people have little time to do the searching around for good science papers to read. At the link below the information and papers have been gathered together so all you need to do is to read. It's set up to give you an over view of last year (2009) in Climate Science.

Gwynne Dyer has been a military analyst for several decades. He has contacts in most of the major military establishments across the world. Once he learned about Global Warming he immediately wanted to inquire about its military implications for the countries of the world. This is a fascinating and informative talk by knowledgeable people.

Lord Christopher Monckton has been making the rounds in Canada and the rest of the world talking about the triviality of Global Warming. He uses data from scientists to make his points in such a way that someone who is not well read on the issues would be fooled into believing that Global Warming is not an important issue. Professor Abraham meticulously examines the validity of Lord Monckton's arguments and sources in this well documented piece.

This link points to a great discussion regarding the science of Global Warming plus an inside look at the workings of the IPCC.

The US Environmental Protection Agency has recently produced a report on Climate Change Indicators in the United States of America.

Here is a talk by Dr. Richard B. Alley given at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in which he traces the role of CO2 in earth's deep history. He is a geologist and Professor of Earth Sciences at Penn State.

How does the thermostat work for the earth keeping it in a range of temperatures rather than burning up at some times or becoming a total snowball at other times? All this in a solar system in which the main heat source for the earth, the sun, is increasing in its heat output yet the earth has not become hotter but cycled between warm and cold spells almost forever.

Dr. Alley is a very dynamic speaker who clearly loves his work. The processes he describes and shows the evidence for are fascinating. Caution, this is a high information bandwidth presentation.

http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/lectures/lecture_videos/A23A.shtml

Are you interested in the history of how scientists came to discover that humans were causing global warming? This is a hypertext site integrated in such a way to maximize your learning about the history of climate science and many of the more esoteric scientific concepts about the Earth's geophysics. The site is hosted by the American Institute of Physics and partially sponsored by the American National Science Foundation (NSF).

What follows is a lecture given by Naomi Oreskes, Ph.D. She is a professor of History in the Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego. The Title of her lecture is, "The American Denial of Global Warming".

She outlines the history of climate science from the 19th century to the present. She moves on to try to understand the modern phenomenon of Global Warming Denial that is so popular today especially in the United States of America.

Here is a video that is part of an advertising campaign in the United States of America. It delivers quite a different message about CO2. According to this advert CO2 is good for the Earth and the more CO2 the better.

Pascal's Wager has many forms. It is used as a tool in risk management. Let's suppose we don't know FOR SURE that human caused global warming is occurring. Maybe or maybe not. So how do we manage the risk? Is there a way to wisely manage our way out of this situation even though we can't be sure that human caused global warming is occurring?

This science teacher uses the logical form of Pascal's Wager to make a thoughtful argument.

The following report was produced by The National Academies in the USA, which are: National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, National Research Council, and the Institute of Medicine.

Here is a copy of the IPCC's The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Climate Science Report. IPCC AR5 is not due until 2013 so this report provides interim data. The purpose of this report is to synthesize the most policy-relevant climate science published since the close-off of material for the last IPCC report.

Here's an interesting article from Scientific American where the author identifies and answers several common objections to AGW posed by contrarians..

We have been hearing about hacked e-mails from British climate scientists, their contents and their meaning. Do the contents mean that climate scientists have 'cooked the books' and fabricated data? Is climate science a scam? Here's a short article from the prestigious science periodical NATURE on this topic.

Dr. Daniel Nocera discusses a revolutionary approach to solving the third world's energy needs.