global warming bibliography?

Question

(this question is not intended as a political "statement" in any way)

Does Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth" include any sort of bibliography?

Global climate change seems to be an issue that a lot of people are content to say "studies have shown" without telling us who did the studies, and where they are published, etc. I'm hoping that Gore's movie didn't fall victim to this, but I really don't remember.

Answer 1

Movie documentairies don't include bibliographies.

Gore's book is old, and any bibliography from it would be out of date.

But why use Gore to study science? World and corporate leaders surely don't. He's not a scientist, he's just a communicator of ideas to the general public. The leaders have access to, and get their information from, the best climatologists in the world.

Here's an extensive bibliography of the scientific literature, broken out by year:

http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/fgwscience.asp

That was just a list I found rapidly using Google. There's a much more extensive list in the references to this document. Hundreds of peer reviewed studies are cited in detail. Download Chapter 2 (the most important) for a sample.

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

Global warming science does not depend on Al Gore's words or behavior. He's irrelevant to the science.

Answer 2

The book does have a long bibliography.

However, upon examing bibliography sources you see that most of the things that scientist actualy agree on are carefully worded statements of simple fact. For example, Man produces C02. Additional C02 in the atmosphere leads to increased absorption of heat. Man has contributed to the warming of the planet.

These are agreeable to scientists because they can be proven and are worded as factual statements. But they don't agree at all on the magnitude of the effect caused by man or if it is even measurable for sure or how much other effects might be at play instead, or that we can claim to understand all the processes involved in the earth system that we would need to know to be able to make predictions.

Answer 3

There are thousands of studies to show what ever you choose to believe about global warming.

There is so much written that the collective sum is just garbage.

Carefully worded statements are political, not scientific. Statements like this should prove that global warming is not a scientific argument, but a political debate. Science just needs objective facts, not wordsmiths.

Answer 4

Human made global warming is a fact, not something you can beleave or not beleave.

Read the thousands articles in this forum, please, and stop this endless global warming questions!