Another resource for questioning climate change skepticism
June 6th, 2008,While any hope for a federal response to climate change this year died today in the U.S. Senate, I’m at least somewhat encouraged by the fact that my wife has located another resource that catalogs the many claims made by climate change skeptics and offers responses to each. It’s in Grist, the environmental news and commentary web site that’s based in Seattle, and it’s titled “How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic.” I don’t know what you’re community is like, but mine has plenty of skeptics, and I need all the help I can get.
I’m not a regular reader of Grist, though my wife is. They take a lighter approach to environmental issues - lighter than yours truly, for example. I like their slogan: “Grist: it’s gloom and doom with a sense of humor. So laugh now - or the planet gets it.”
See also their commentary on the carbon footprint of biking versus driving, in which they run some of the numbers and, as commonsense would indicate, find that biking comes out ahead.
June 26th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Show me one peer reviewed scientific study that shows human involvement in climate change. Just one. Not a concenses, but a peer reviewed study by acutal climate scientists. Not Al Gore, but folks who have a PHD. GOOD LUCK!!
June 30th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Robert,
Below are some peer-reviewed articles by Ph.D.’s that I got from this references page to a NASA summary of global warming:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/GlobalWarmingUpdate/global_warming_update7.html
Articles:
Hansen, J., Nazarenko, L., Ruedy, R., Sato, M., Willis, J., Del Genio, A., Koch, D., Lacis, A., Lo, K., Menon, S., Novakov, T., Perlwitz, J., Russell, G., Schmidt, G. A., and Tausnev, N. (2005) Earth’s energy imbalance: Confirmation and implications. Science, 308, 1431-1435.
Joint Science Academies. (2005). Joint Science Academies’ Statement: Global Response to Climate Change. June 2005.
Kiehl, J. T., and Trenberth. K. E. (1997). Earth’s Annual Global Mean Energy Budget. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 78, 197-208.
See the NASA Global Warming summary for more info: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/GlobalWarmingUpdate/global_warming_update.html
Here is a book published by Cambridge University Press, which does peer review for its books: Human-Induced Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary Assessment (2007), Michael E. Schlesinger, ed.
http://www.amazon.com/Human-Induced-Climate-Change-Interdisciplinary-Assessment/dp/0521866030/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214836586&sr=1-3
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Much more is out there if you go to credible, science-based sources such as realclimate.org. It would be much harder to find peer-reviewed science journal articles that show the current global warming is NOT caused largely by human activity.