Where can I find detailed data on global warming?

Question

Not just the conclusion, but the actual information. Temp changes, size of ice cap etc. etc.

I would like it if it described the method to take readings, and the location of the weather stations.

Answer 1

One excellent place to begin is your local newspaper or if you wish you can go on-line to the Washington Post.com or New York times or other papers and use their archive search features using global warming as a keyword. This will give you everything that has been printed in the paper for whatever period of time you specify. In these articles you will find references to the most current research results, who the researchers are, where their results have been published, and so on. You can then retrieve the original publications through your library. I heartily recommend this approach over a reliance on doing a web search. All too often what we find on the web is not well documented, incorrect citations, and questionable conclusions. I would go to the web only to do the newspaper archive search.

Answer 2

As a start, I would recommend renting the DVD called An Inconvenient Truth. It just won an academy award and it gives realistic and accurate detailed information of the effects and the processes that have caused much of the conditions we now see in our atmosphere.