Where can I find the truth about Global Warming?

Question

This issue has become so politisiced that I'm not sure what to beleive.

I'm looking for the truth. Can anybody help me find it?

Answer 1

Listen to the first hand sources - the scientists and those studying global warming, the people who know what they're talking about.

Ignore the journalists, movie makers, websites etc. They're not scientists, are often biased, rarely know what they're talking about and at best are a source of second hand information. Even the most impartial of websites and journalists only present part of the picture, it may be accurate but it's incomplete.

In short, if someone tells you something then only beleive it if you can verify it for yourself from credible sources.

Answer 2

This is a pretty good site. They make it a point to present both sides of the issue. They also cover the politics, like Bush setting aside laws and overruling his own law enforcement people, so that the States have had to take him all the way to the Supreme Court to get what the taxpayers have already paid for.

Answer 3

Karl Wunsch was featured in the film, the great global warming swindle, and cried foul that he was misquoted. So you can not accuse him of having an agenda.

Here is an interview he gave before the film came out. He states that science still has not determined the truth.
http://www.cjob.com/shows/adler.aspx?mc=62757

There are many skeptics who are basically arguing against the notion that the debate is over.

Answer 4

You can try this site which asks many questions:

http://xtronics.com/reference/globalwarming.htm

and here is a site that tells you the problem of auditing the Climate scientists:

http://www.climateaudit.org/index.php?p=66

here is a nice essay from Richard Feynman about the problems of modern science as it exists today:

http://www.lhup.edu/%7EDSIMANEK/cargocul.htm

Here are articles that don't support the AGW hypothesis:

http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/subject/g/globalwarming.jsp

and this one supports the AGW hypothesis but is an excellent site for understanding the science of GW.

http://profend.com/global-warming/

If you are looking for the truth about Global Warming, please realize that science is the pursuit of the truth and not the truth itself. It is something that is in the process of being discovered. Science is a method that is always active and always discovering and is not about stagnant truths but unfolding knowledge.

Answer 5

The truth is..

No one has enough REAL informaton to POSITIVELY say they know the truth.

We do know:

1) Solar output was down in the 1970's and we had global cooling
2) Solar output is up right now... and we do have some warming.

Thats the ONLY consistant relationship.

Note that the globe getting warmer auses NATURAL PROCESSES to release more CO2... NATURE is more likely to be the real cause of the warming than man is.

AND.. all the carbon was already here... we don't make carbon. EVERY BIT of carbon that is now in fossil fuels.. was at one time in the atmosphere.

Answer 6

Believe the IPCC. NO ONE in that organization has a hidden agenda. After all, the UN and all of its organizations are pure as the driven snow.

Answer 7

You can't. It's like getting the truth about which religion is right.

If "global warming" was based on facts, you wouldn't have this problem. No one asks to find the truth that planets revolve around the sun, as almost anyone can prove this.

No one can prove "global warming"

Answer 8

This site is quite non-political:

http://profend.com/global-warming/

This site is an antidote to politically based stuff:

http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462

Of course, the real truth is in the peer reviewed literature, in papers like:

Meehl, G.A., W.M. Washington, C.A. Ammann, J.M. Arblaster, T.M.L. Wigleym and C. Tebaldi (2004). "Combinations of Natural and Anthropogenic Forcings in Twentieth-Century Climate". Journal of Climate 17: 3721-3727

which would be available at a college library.

There is an exhaustive list of peer reviewed articles about global warming at the end of this:

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html

But it's hundreds of articles, with no good way to sort out exactly what you'd want. You could look at the titles and guess, I suppose.

Answer 9

Yes I believe the secrets to this can be found in the children's book section of your local book store.

Answer 10

Read the IPCC Report. The IPCC is a group of the best climate scientists in the world, and they examine thousands of scientific papers in preparing the report. The Summary for Policymakers is just 18 pages long and contains some very enlightening charts and graphs.

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/Report/AR4WG1_Pub_SPM-v2.pdf

Read what the scientists have said directly and you don't have to worry about politics.