These are the sources I usually point people at:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/
http://aip.org/history/climate/summary.h...
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...
http://www.realclimate.org/
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;... (a while back, I asked people to post links to sources at various experience levels)
These aren't really direct, peer-reviewed science to my knowledge, but most of them have links to the actual scientific studies.
In 1988, the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organization set up the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to examine the most current scientific information on global warming and climate change. More than 2,500 of the world's leading climate scientists, economists, and risk experts contributed to the panel's most recent report, Climate Change 2001: The Third Assessment Report.
Scientists from about 100 countries were involved in this new report—more than in any previous report and with greater participation from developing countries. These scientists reviewed all the published and peer-reviewed scientific information produced during the previous few years to assess what is known about the global climate, why and how it changes, what it will mean for people and the environment, and what can be done about it.
The Third Assessment Report is the most comprehensive and up-to-date evaluation of global warming. As the new benchmark, it serves as the basis for international climate negotiations.
The greenhouse gases that cause global warming are mainly as a result of industrial activity. These gases though having a vital purpose of maintaining a reasonable temperature ........
More information you got here: http://www.qwhatis.com/what-is-global-wa...
In the U.S., the ultimate credible authority on science is the National Academy of Science, the association of all the greatest scientists in the country. There is no organization in the world with more expertise and credibility.
They have a pamphlet and a series of video which provides good information about global warming. You can access either from this page.
http://nas-sites.org/americasclimatechoi...
The information includes how scientists know climate change is real, what changes are expected, and what might be done about it.
Unfortunately, scientific research has been compromised by the politics of the subject. The academic community leans far to the Left, so researchers who “prove” human-caused global warming (AGW) are rewarded with more grants, but researchers who don’t “prove” AGW find themselves cut off.
It’s clear global warming/climate change is real. It’s equally clear the > current < warming cycle has been going on since the last ice age and that’s why the Sahara was grassland 10,000 years ago but is desert today + has been desert for many centuries. The fact the current warming trend started long before there was any industry and when there were hardly any people is good evidence humans are not the cause. It also means humans are not the solution.
The Earth goes through constant climate change cycles and has done so throughout its history. The exact mechanism is not well understood but appears to be related to solar activity and not human activity. Note that the Earth is apparently at the end of the current warming cycle and should begin cooling soon (“soon” in geological terms).
All of the carbon tax/carbon offset BS is just robbery or extortion disguised as science. Countries like China and India LOVED the idea of carbon taxes/carbon offsets – but only when they could pretend to be “undeveloped”. Once it was pointed out both are horrific polluters of > every type < they suddenly weren’t so keen on the idea. Only the global Left and countries like North Korea & Zimbabwe still love the idea of carbon taxes.
The Left loves the idea because they are dedicated to destroying the West in general and the USA in particular. Getting the developed world to wreck its own industrial base is something they want. Having the West simultaneously give free guilt-money to countries like North Korea & Zimbabwe would just make it better.
The politics of the issue are a problem because we really do need to understand how the Earth works so we can anticipate, predict, and adjust. We also need to reduce actual pollution that is poisoning our environment, and countries like China & India shouldn’t get a free ride.
I appreciate your being open-minded about this. Note, e.g.:
25. Dr Hans Labohm: “The alarmist passages in the (IPCC) Summary for Policymakers have been skewed through an elaborate and sophisticated process of spin-doctoring.”
26. Dr. Andrew Lacis: “There is no scientific merit to be found in the Executive Summary. The presentation sounds like something put together by Greenpeace activists and their legal department.”
19. Dr Kiminori Itoh: “There are many factors which cause climate change. Considering only greenhouse gases is nonsense and harmful. When people know what the truth is they will feel deceived by science and scientists.”
20. Dr Yuri Izrael: “There is no proven link between human activity and global warming. I think the panic over global warming is totally unjustified. There is no serious threat to the climate.”
21. Dr Steven Japar: “Temperature measurements show that the climate model-predicted mid-troposphere hot zone is non-existent. This is more than sufficient to invalidate global climate models and projections made with them.”
100s of millions of years of climage history portrayed in the imperical data collected and analyzed from geological and ice core samples.
We have undeniable evidence of what the earth's climate has been in the past so it is reasonable to use such evidence to forcast what those same climate conditions would be like in the future.
The evidence proves that life flourished on every part of the globe even in densely populated lush forests on antarctica during the Eocene period 35 to 55 million years ago when the earth was much warmer and atmospheric concentration of CO2 was much higher than it is today.
you can use google advanced search and restrict dates and domain names. if you filter for EDU and GOV domains, you'll get universities and government labs like NASA.
AGW Observer links many published papers
Google scholar.
If you're looking for the actual measurement data, then these two sites link to most that's available.
http://www.climate4you.com/
http://climexp.knmi.nl/selectfield_obs2....
Need this for science research
Avoid any NASA sources....That agency's climate data is overseen by a Warming Activist.
Avoid IPCC.....that organization is overseen by many Warming Activists.
Here is the IPCC website - http://www.ipcc.ch/index.htm#.URXH42c4Tn...
