Resources for Debating Climate Change with Skeptics

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1. Wikipedia page on Global Warming Controversy. My favourite parts: the list of organizations supporting the scientific consensus view on climate change:
   • The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
   • The national academies of science of the G8 countries and Brazil, the People's Republic of China and India.
   • The US National Academy of Sciences, both in its 2002 report to President George W. Bush, and in its latest publications, has strongly endorsed evidence of an average global temperature increase in the 20th century and stated that human activity is heavily implicated in causing this increase.
   • The American Meteorological Society.
   • The American Geophysical Union.
   • The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
   • The Union of Concerned Scientists
   ...and the list of individuals opposing the consensus, which features ten names.
2. David Suzuki's page discussing skeptics (who are they, who funds them, statements, science, and more information)
3. How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic at Gristmill, featuring an incredible list of articles responding to almost every common skeptical response to the climate crisis. Here's just the first section:
   



# There's nothing happening

   1. Inadequate evidence
          * There is no evidence
          * One record year is not global warming
          * The temperature record is simply unreliable
          * One hundred years is not enough
          * Glaciers have always grown and receded
          * Warming is due to the Urban Heat Island effect
          * Mauna Loa is a volcano
          * The scientists aren't even sure
   2. Contradictory evidence
          * It's cold today in Wagga Wagga
          * Antarctic ice is growing
          * The satellites show cooling
          * What about mid-century cooling?
          * Global warming stopped in 1998
          * But the glaciers are not melting
          * Antarctic sea ice is increasing
          * Observations show climate sensitivity is not very high
          * Sea level in the Arctic is falling
          * Some sites show cooling
   3. No consensus
          * Global warming is a hoax
          * There is no consensus
          * Position statements hide debate
          * Consensus is collusion
          * Peiser refuted Oreskes

Comments

[joecdn.livejournal.com]

Geeze I'm not a skeptic, I know that global warming is occuring and that something needs to be done. All I was saying was that Al Gore's video didn't completely convince me. It just wasn't a very well done documentary.

[c9.livejournal.com]

I didn't say "when talking to joecdn", I said when talking to a skeptic. You're allowed to like and not like anything you want to. :-)

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

So how is your dad, anyway? :-)

[c9.livejournal.com]

LOL - I can't talk to him. I bought him Al Gore's book though. Priceless reaction.