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The earth's climate is subject to constant change. Some of these fluctuations affect the entire globe and some are local, regional, or continental. This reading list is primarily concerned with those changes that are global in extent. The readings concern changes that occur over periods longer than a human life, but evidence of the changes may be evident over periods as short as a decade or two. At present there is much discussion about "Global Warming" and the possibility that it may be caused or at least enhanced by human activities (anthropogenic-AGW hypothesis) such as the burning of fossil fuel and the global increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.
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The items mentioned below are not representative of the whole global climate issue. They are generally skeptical of the AGW hypothesis) since the other side is strongly represented in the popular press. For a pro AGW view see www.realclimate.org These folks are the key players in the Climategate scandal and they use this site to run down their critics when they feel such treatment is necessary.
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For a brief synopsis of selected titles, hold your mouse over the linked titles. Click on the linked titles of books to reach Amazon.com, the video title to reach the video site, or the Non-technical paper to display the .pdf copy. |
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| 1 | Hayden, Howard | A Primer on CO2 and Climate | 2007 | ||||||
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Hayden, Howard C. | The Solar Fraud: Why Solar Energy Won't Run the World, Second Edition | 2005 | ||||||
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Lomborg, Bjorn | Cool It | 2007 | ||||||
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Lomborg, Bjorn | The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World | 2001 | ||||||
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Michaels, Patrick J. (ed.) | Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming | 2005 | ||||||
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Michaels, Patrick J, & Robert C. Balling, Jr. | The Satanic Gases | 2000 | ||||||
| 7 | Plimer, Ian | Heaven and Earth: global warming the missing science | 2009 | ||||||
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Singer, S. Fred & Dennis T. Avery | Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 years | 2006 | ||||||
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Svensmark, Hendrick & Nigel Calder | The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change | 2007 | ||||||
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| 1 | Riverina ABC | Interview with Prof Ian Plimer | |||||||
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| 1 | Wag TV |
The Great Global Warming Swindle or buy it HERE |
2007 | ||||||
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Akasofu, Syun-Ichi |
Is the Earth still recovering from the "Little Ice Age"? (22 pages overall, 15 figures, 2 pages of references .pdf) |
07 May, 2007 | ||||||
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Akasofu, Syun-Ichi |
Why has "global warming" become such a passionate subject? (5 page .pdf) |
2006 | ||||||
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Anderson, Donald N |
Humans didn't cause global warming (short column for newspaper publication) |
28 July 2009 | ||||||
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Nova, Joanne |
Climate Money (19 pages .pdf) |
21 July 2009 | ||||||
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Nova, Joanne |
The Skeptics Handbook (16 page .pdf) |
February 2009 | ||||||
| 6 | Solomon, Lawrence |
(Links to 42 columns from the National Post) |
2006-2007 | ||||||
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Svensmark, Henrick |
Influence of Cosmic Rays on the Earth's Climate (5 page .pdf) |
1998 | ||||||
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Svensmark, Henrick |
The SKY experiment in Copenhagen (3 page .pdf) |
2006 | ||||||
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| 1 | Miskolczi, Ferenc M. | Greenhouse effect in semi-transparent planetary atmospheres | 2007 | ||||||
| 2 | Robinson, Arthur B., Noah E Robinson, and Willie Soon | Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide | Fall 2007 | ||||||
| 3 | Svensmark, Henrick; Jens Olaf P. Pedersen, Nigel D. Marsh, Martin B. Enghoff and Ulrick I. Uggerhøj | Experimental evidence for the role of ions in particle nucleation under atmospheric conditions | 17 August, 2006 | ||||||
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