Get yer top climate skeptic arguments here!
Here are rather exhaustive lists of the skeptics’ arguments on science grounds – coupled with brief analyses of the arguments and links to underlying publications:
- John Cross: Skeptical Science
- Coby Beck: How to talk to Global Warming Skeptic
- Brian Angliss A Thorough Debunking
- New Scientist: Climate Change: A guide for the perplexed
- RealClimate: Response to common contrarian arguments
- UK Met Office: “Climate change – the big picture”; Climate Change Myths
- Environmental defense, Global Warming Myths and Facts, http://www.fightglobalwarming.com/page.cfm?tagID=274
I encourage all those who prefer not to argue about climate “policy” from an Austrian perspective (you know, the complicated stuff about doing harm to others, clear and enforceable property rights, homesteading, preferences, praexology, market transactions, information and transaction costs, the common law, the availability of judicial mechanisms, statism and rent-seeking) but would rather, as a first line of defense at least, to use the science as a basis for doing political batlle against the enviro-fascists, to visit the above sites to bone up and to expand their personal repertoire of arguments. Visit the belly of the Beast, and review and prepare yourself for the tricky and deceptive counter-arguments by the enviro-propagandists!
For the intrepid only, here are further climate “resources”:
Introductory:
NCAR: Weather and climate basics
Pew Center: Global Warming basics
Wikipedia: Global Warming
NASA: Global Warming update
NOAA, National Climatic Data Center Global Warming, Frequently Asked Questions: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html
The Woods Hole Research Center, “The Warming of the Earth: A beginner’s guide to understanding the issue of global warming”, http://whrc.org/resources/online_publications/warming_earth/index.htm
National Academy of Sciences, Science Museum, climate change exhibits, http://www.koshlandscience.org/exhibitgcc/index.jsp
National Academy of Sciences, Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions, National Academy Press, 2001 http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10139
John P. Holdren, Director, The Woods Hole Research Center, Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard University, President, American Association for the Advancement of Science, “Meeting the Climate-Change Challenge”, http://whrc.org/resources/PPT/JPH_MBL_11-03-06_Clim-Chg-Challenge.ppt
The Royal Society, “Climate Change Controversies: a simple guide,”
http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=6229
The Royal Society, Facts and fictions about climate change, http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=4761
Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Information sheets, http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/info/
History: Spencer Weart’s excellent “Discovery of Global Warming” (American Institute of Physics)
The IPCC’s AR4 Frequently Asked Questions (pdf).
Oxford University: The basics of climate prediction
Tom Rees, “Global Warming: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions”, http://www.brighton73.freeserve.co.uk/gw/paleo/paleoclimate.htm
Those with some knowledge:
The IPCC reports themselves (AR4 2007, TAR 2001).
The Arctic Council, Arctic Climate Impact Assessment 2005, http://www.acia.uaf.edu
NOAA/NCDC: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html; and “A Paleo Perspective on Global Warming”, http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/home.html
EPA, http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/index.html
The 2001 US National Assessment, http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/nationalassessment/overview.htm;
http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/nationalassessment/01Climate.pdf
National Center for Atmospheric Research, http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/
“THE PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE”, http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has a page full of resources and links here: http://www.aaas.org/news/press_room/climate_change/
By climate scientists:
RealClimate: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/05/start-here/
RealClimate’s index: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/index/
R. T. Pierrehumbert, Principles of Planetary Climate, http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~rtp1/ClimateBook/ClimateVol1.pdf (treatise)
Stephen Schneider, An Overview of the Climate Change Problem, http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Climate/ClimateFrameset.html
Roger Pielke Sr., http://cires.colorado.edu/science/groups/pielke/ and http://climatesci.org/
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