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1. linlyons Says:
   August 28th, 2009 at 8:47 am

   NAS, NOAA, NSF, NASA, EPA, MIT, UCLA all agree. AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) is a serious problem.

   http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer

   "May 19, 2008: The National Academies have released the 2008 edition of "Understanding and Responding to Climate Change," a free booklet designed to give the public a comprehensive and easy-to-read analysis of findings and recommendations from our reports on climate change."

   http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/climate_change_2008_final.pdf <== here’s a good description.
   http://www.funnyweather.org/ <== this is a more lighthearted link.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect <== and one with too much detail.
   http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10125 <== Michael Oppenheimer, a member of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Committee on Climate Change and professor at Princeton

   http://www.lenntech.com/greenhouse-effect/global-warming-history.htm <== btw this is not a new idea.
   http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/people/klaus.wolter/MEI/ <== why was 1998 hot?

   http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html
   http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/home.html
   http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/perspectives.html

   http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/ <== not regulated by the government.
   http://www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/watch/climate_change/change.htm <== good article, and temp graphs.

   http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=105692
   http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111511

   http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=86846
   http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/climate.html
   http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/global_warming_worldbook.html
   http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2008/earth_temp.html
   <<"Barring a large volcanic eruption, a record global temperature clearly exceeding that of 2005 can be expected within the next few years, at the time of the next El Nino, because of the background warming trend attributable to continuing increases of greenhouse gases." The eight warmest years in the GISS record have all occurred since 1998, and the 14 warmest years in the record have all occurred since 1990.>>

   http://yosemite.epa.gov/OAR/globalwarming.nsf/content/ResourceCenterPublicationsUSClimateActionReport.html
   http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070202-global-warming.html
   http://royalsociety.org/downloaddoc.asp?id=4085

   http://www.skepticalscience.com/
   http://www.realclimate.org/
   http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/05/start-here/

2. Paul A Says:
   August 28th, 2009 at 8:47 am

   dont care

3. Dr Jello Doctor of Science Says:
   August 28th, 2009 at 8:47 am

   Here’s scientific proof.

   Science is not something that is debated, no one has a debate over the speed of light. Since science is not debated, then "Global Warming" is not real, you lose, I win.

4. John Terry Says:
   August 28th, 2009 at 8:47 am

   You won’t find any proof in this forum…..

5. Dawei Says:
   August 28th, 2009 at 8:47 am

   What exactly are you looking for? You’re not going to find a mathematical proof for it; few things in science are actually ‘proven’. There is just a good bit of evidence–and the fact that most of the arguments "against" that you will find have pretty much all been thoroughly debunked.

6. bohoi Says:
   August 28th, 2009 at 8:47 am

   I believe that human activity is causing climate change. Unfortunately, by the nature of the problem the only evidence can be the strong correlation between atmospheric CO2 and global temperature. Since humans are increasing CO2 levels we are responsible for climate change. The problem with using a correlation as evidence is that just because two things happen doesn’t mean that one caused the other. That’s why climate models have been developed, to simulate different scenarios since we cannot experiment with our own atmosphere.

   Those are the two peices of evidence: the correlation, and climate models. Although the link between human activity and climate change is not proven, I believe it is correct and that we should follow the "no regrets" policy and get emissions under control.

   Here is a link to the most recent IPCC report. (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) This will fully discuss the evidence.

   http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-syr.htm

7. Alyssa T Says:
   August 28th, 2009 at 8:47 am

   you can try watching "An Inconvenient Truth"
   Movie in 2006
   plenty of evidence to proof
   our lecturer showed us that last yr, it’s pretty awesome

8. tonykarmine Says:
   August 28th, 2009 at 8:47 am

   I don’t have the link, but you search for "Michael Crichton Global Warming" and You will get the most brilliant explanation of "global warming". Its a long article but he also debunks quite a few other scientific myths that are prevalent today.

9. Peter Says:
   August 28th, 2009 at 8:47 am

   Doesn’t exist.

   I suggest you take the other side, and do some number-running. For the essay you could walk the reader through the process and the logic.

   If you take the weight of the atmosphere, (about 14.6 pounds per square inch of the earth) and divide it by the population of the earth.

   You get 830,000 tons of atmosphere per person. As a goodly percentage of the people in the earth have a difficult time heating the air within their home, is it plausible that the population of the earth could warm the entire atmosphere?

10. Scorpio Wild Card Says:
    August 28th, 2009 at 8:47 am

    don’t know, don’t care, climate change is getting old, I wonder when they will change it to the Global Cooling stage again…
    sigh

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