Climate Change
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Skeptic Organizations
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Skeptics Reports
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Rebuttal
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www.globalwarmingheartland.org |
Heartland's Global Warming Facts, a database of research that contradicts many of the claims made by former vice president Al Gore and others. The Web site is loaded with links to other sites, a primer on global warming, and news. |
cei.org/issue/48 |
The Competitive Enterprise Institute is a public interest group dedicated to free enterprise and limited government. We believe that the best solutions come from people making their own choices in a free marketplace, rather than government intervention. |
www.marshall.org |
George C. Marshall Institute was established in 1984 as a nonprofit corporation to conduct technical assessments of scientific issues with an impact on public policy. |
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www.aps.org |
Forum on Physics and Society (an un-peer-reviewed
newsletter published by the American Physical Society) "Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered" By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley. July 2008. |
www.realclimate.org |
Real Climate Scientists respond to above report. |
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scienceblogs.com |
How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic. July 6, 2008 by coby. A listing of all the articles to be found in the "How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic" guide, presented as a handy one-stop shop for all the material you should need to rebut the more common anti-global warming science arguments constantly echoed accross the internet. |
www.greenpeace.org |
ExxonSecrets is a Greenpeace research project highlighting the more than a decade-long campaign by Exxon-funded front groups - and the scientists they work with - to deny the urgency of the scientific consensus on global warming and delay action to fix the problem. |
www.edf.org |
Environmental Defense Fund. Global Warming Skeptics: A
Primer. Guess who's funding the global warming doubt shops? 19-Dec-2006; Updated: 28-Aug-2007. "In 1998, Exxon devised a plan to stall action on global warming. The plan was outlined in an internal memo that promised, "Victory will be achieved when uncertainties in climate science become part of the conventional wisdom" for "average citizens" and "the media." |
www.ucsusa.org |
ExxonMobil’s Tobacco-like Disinformation Campaign on Global Warming Science. Union of Concerned Scientists report offers the most comprehensive documentation to date of how ExxonMobil has adopted the tobacco industry's disinformation tactics, as well as some of the same organizations and personnel, to cloud the scientific understanding of climate change and delay action on the issue. According to the report, ExxonMobil has funneled nearly $16 million between 1998 and 2005 to a network of 43 advocacy organizations that seek to confuse the public on global warming science. |
belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu |
"Climate-Change Skeptics Revisited" Paper, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. August 5, 2008. Author: John P. Holdren, Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program. |
www.newsweek.com/id/32482 |
The Truth About Denial By Sharon Begley. Newsweek Magazine issue dated Aug 13, 2007. |
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