Some sites:
Climate Progress, Open Mind, RealClimate,
ClimateAudit, WattsUpWithThat, BlackBoard
Global warming IS happening it is a scientific FACT. Anybody that denies this has never taken a science course in there life. Nature has its own cycle of heating up the Earth slowly and then cooling it off hence the Ice Age. The controversy is whether or not humans are accelerating the process.
As someone mentioned above, use a non partisan based research study.
Just for future reference, things to look for when evaluating the merits of a website in terms of things like global warming, or other scientific issues:
Is the website by a college, or a scientific organization such as NASA?
Does the website contain or directly reference scientific papers?
Are any graphs clearly labeled, preferably with a brief explanation of the data source?
Does the website link to any scientific papers that are referenced, or merely provide a synopsis?
Are the website's arguments logically sound? (for example, if an argument essentially boils down to "It would be too difficult to fix AGW, so it is not happening", that is not a logically sound argument)
Is the website created by someone with relevant science degrees, or by someone with tangentially-related or unrelated science degrees, or by a non-scientist?
Is the website by a national publication with a good overall reputation for factual accuracy (such as National Geographic)?
Take anything from a "special interest" group with a grain of salt. Take Youtube videos and blogs with a grain of salt. Look for sources, and if you can, check the sources to make sure they actually say what the original website says they do. But being properly skeptical doesn't mean treating all sources as equal in weight, or always listening to "both sides" before coming to a conclusion. Being skeptical means things like not blindly accepting the first thing you read, or anything you read that you initially agree with, as gospel truth; trying to figure out if a source is genuinely trustworthy before trusting it, and so on.
Trust what the world's top scientists have been saying for 25 years, based on massive scientific research going back 125 years, not what ignorant and deceptive con artists, copying fossil fuel industry front groups' anti-science trickery, have been saying for 10-15 years.
U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 2010:
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record...
“Climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems.”
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpine...
“Choices made now about carbon dioxide emissions reductions will affect climate change impacts experienced not just over the next few decades but also in coming centuries and millennia…Because CO2 in the atmosphere is long lived, it can effectively lock the Earth and future generations into a range of impacts, some of which could become very severe.”
http://www.physics.fsu.edu/awards/NAS/
“The Academy membership is composed of approximately 2,100 members and 380 foreign associates, of whom nearly 200 have won Nobel Prizes. Members and foreign associates of the Academy are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research; election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a scientist or engineer.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_...
http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/...
http://www.aip.org/history/climate/timel...
http://www.aip.org/history/climate/index...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern_Revie...
http://realclimate.com/
I have no doubt that global warning is happening. The people that say otherwise are the same as the stupid skeptics who do doubted all of the great inventors and scientists. Think about it- yes there were alot of raised temperatures and freak storms worldwide back in the 70s etc but back then, everything was alot cleaner, there was not nearly as much pollution. Take beijing for.example- you can't even se e past the smog. The fact is, those freak storms from the past are repeating themselves, but with greater frequency and it will get worse as the years go by. The world has not been this polluted before in our time. Global warming is happening. In addition to global warming, however there is another factor which is masking or rather slowing the effects of global warming- it is called global dimming. The amount of smog etc in the air is basically slowing the rate of photosynthesis in plants and causing less oxygen to be produced, simultaneously "cooling off" the earth by prohibiting the amount of light and heat that can reach us. Hope this helps. Its really sad thay ppl dont believe global warming its happening, its like an insult to earth because we are the assholes who caused it and yet deny it.
We are on a warming trend of 0.0411C per decade for the past 150 years. 150 years ago is said to be when we started trending upward after the LIA (Little Ice Age). The current global average temperature is up 0.62C above the established normal temperature.
The question is "What is causing it"? Normal climate variations or a rise in CO2 emissions? Climate science is still working out the details, but many believe that natural forces are still driving the climatic changes.
If "Global Warming" is happening, Why am I so cold?
An never trust a Politician they are just Puppets
One way would be to look at the scientific consensus - Wiki has a list of scientific institutions globally that accept the science of climate change caused primarily due to burning of fossil fuels : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_...
The IPCC collates the science and summarises it in their Synthesis report - it does not take long to skim through this report but I have never found a politician or mass media columnist who has bothered to read it :http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data...
Then you can ask yourself do the people complaining that it is all a fraud , have anything similar to the people claiming that evolution or vaccinations or age of the earth or link between AIDS & HIV are also frauds : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denialism . This does not mean that everyone who disagrees with climate science is from the denier industry but it does help you identify dodgy arguments intended to reinforce a fixed political or religious position
Anthropogenic warming is a farce. It is for lining the profits of the warming alarmist community. They have fudged the numbers to fit their story. Follow the money trail and see why.
Just look up a non partisan source and decide for yourself.
Some people are suggesting that global warming isn't really happening and some say that its not global warming but global cooling!! Some websites says that scientist believe it isn't happening but some say they do. And some sites are saying not to trust politicians.
What would be the best website to use?
please help Its for my TOK presentation however, its only a practice one
Denialists love to claim that AGW is being promoted on behalf of the government and that scientists are getting rich off of the supposed scam. But in reality, most governments, especially that of the U. S., are actually resisting AGW, Courageous scientists are keeping AGW alive by puting their careers on the line while resisting pressure from politicians to recant.
http://www.inhofe.senate.gov/
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/scienc...
If you stick to the science then it's one theme, Co2 is a greenhouse gas it is increasing and the planet is warming, which is supported by the observed effects of sea level rise and glacial retreat around the globe.
If you stick to the science websites that is what is being said.
What you seem to be referencing to are not science based sites but blogs, very popular with deniers and home to a vast host of theories that try to claim many things, but none that they can support with anything that could be called science.
They have at various times tried to blame the Sun, Volcanoes, clouds, termites, HAARP as well aas the vast number of conspiracy theories blaming various billionaires, communists, Al Gore, Greens, Government etc etc etc
At last count they have over 170 such varying theories
http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument...
Another of their theories you also reference "it's cooling" this one is comical, they make the claim by using 1998 as a starting point and claiming it has cooled since then.
Just a couple of problems with this theory:
1) 1998 was pushed far higher than the effect of AGW by a record El Nino in late 97 and into 98
The strongest in the last 100 year this is easy to see in the temperature record.
http://climate.nasa.gov/key_indicators#g...
2) 98 is now the third warmest year in the modern record it was passed by 2005 and then 2010.
3) If you look at the longer and more accurate of the decade average the 1990's (including 98) where the warmest decade in the modern record, until they where replaced by the decade of the 2000's.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201...
The 2000's where ~0.2c warmer, this is in line with the decadal rise estimated by the IPCC
In the science community there is no real doubt abut the cause of AGW, denier try to claim there is but ask them to prove that and you get some very empty answers, they have a small set of scientists who are payed mouth pieces but beyond that they have little real scientific support.
This is painfully obvious when you look at published scientific papers or at science conferences, there is simply no dispute in science ranks, deniers tried to invent some by coming up with a phony petition that claimed to have 30,000 signatures but that myth soon fell apart.
You don't have to take my word, ask anyone of them to post a genuine science site link that disputes AGW, there may be excused and the odd rant, but there will be no link.
On the other hand these are genuine science sites
http://climate.nasa.gov/
http://www.cmar.csiro.au/sealevel/sl_pro...
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hazards/gas/cl...
Denial groups certain have a lot of funding and they are lobbying the right in the public to get politicians to take as little action as possible, that certainly seems to be working as little real action has happened at a political level. Such tactics don't work on scientists they stick to what the evidence shows, no matter who is in office. Marketing and lobbying may work on self interested politicians but in the real world it has no effect at all on glacial retreat or sea level rise, both are still happening and they seem to be slowly increasing in rate.
As deniers this year, continue to claim we are cooling, 2013 has steadily warmed through the year after 2 years of a double La Nina (2011 & 2012), 2013 is currently 6th warmest year on record and may well rise 1 or 2 more spots before the end of the year, claiming that is cooling is going to hard even for hardcore deniers.
Whoops: update the just released NOAA data, up to the end of Aug now has 2013 as the 4th warmest year on record, I seem to have under estimated.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201...
There is not a single scientific organization of national or international standing that rejects the evidence for human-induced climate change; not one - in the whole world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_...
Who do you think knows more about science - scientists or politicians?
trust science
http://ncse.com/climate
just look for yourself. people who talk about it have something to gain or are backed by someone with something to gain
