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> My main argument is, never mind what one's politics is, people need to > read what the scientists doing the work have to say -- but also that > Globalchange is relaxed enough to let people with very different > political notions talk. Having done that, I don't see a real good > place to start that summarizes the science. Probably because most > people came to Globalchange having already spent a lot of reading time > in other forums. > > I've suggested people read the various articles here, for one > perspective: > http://w3g.gkss.de/staff/storch/ > because what he's quoted as saying in the popular press and PR sites > isn't always what he actually said, and he's readable. > > Where else would the climate scientists recommend people look, who > aren't There is simply no better resource than the IPCC TAR WG1 report, with the single caveat that it is now about 5 or 6 years out of date. The new report is in draft and should be available in less than a year, I believe. In the mean time, start here: http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/index.htm There is an excellent blog that is run by working scientists in the Climatology community called RealClimate: http://www.realclimate.org/ Finally, as a shameless plug, I have a blog that is built mostly around what I called a "How the Talk to a Climate Sceptic" guide: http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/02/how-to-talk-to-global-warming-scep tic.html Please note that this last item is entirely targetted at the most common public misconceptions, it is the low-hanging fruit in the climate debate. I don't try to deal with any of the more serious scientific arguments that you might hear from Roger Pielke Sr or Hans Von Storch, though I don't think you could count them as "sceptics" in the popular media culture sense. Are there any serious scientific arguments left in the "It Ain't Happening" camp, or the "It is not human's fault" camp or the "It's not a bad thing" camp? Hope that is the kind of stuff you are looking for. Coby --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
