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Originally Posted by marki

As promised here are a few references from the artical.

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/climate_1_pdf

Intergovernmental panel on climate change (2007), Fourth Assesment report, Cambridge University Press.

Monckton, C. (2009). Report to the US House of representatives Committee on energy and commerce. View at http://www.scotese.com/climate.html

Scotese, C, R., (2001). Paleomap Project. View at http://www.scotese.com/climate.html

Boucot, A, J., Xu, C, and Scotese, C. R., (2004). Phanerozoic climate zones and paleogeography with consideration of atmospheric CO2 levels. Paleotologicheskly Zhurnal, v2, pp 3 - 11.

http://deforrestation.geologist-1011.net/

Bashkirtsev, V, S. and Mashnich, G, P., (2003). Will we face global warming in the nearest future? Geomagnetism and Aeronomy 43: 124 - 127.

Soon, W., Baliunas, S, L, Robinson, A, B, Robinson, Z, W. (1999). Environmental effects of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide. Climate research. Vol 13, 149-164.

Hermann, A, D., Haupt, B, J., Patzkowsky, M, E Seldov, D, and Slingerland, R, L. (2004). Response of late ordovician paleooceannography to changes in sea level, continental drift and atmospheric pCO2: potential causes for long term cooling and glaciation. Paleogeog. Palaeoclimatol, Palaeoecol. 210: pp 385-481

Kaser , G., Hardy, D, R.,, Molg, T., Bradley, R, S., Hyera, T, M., (2004). Modern glacier retreat on kilimanjaro as evidence of climate change: observations and facts. international journal of climatology, v 24, pp 329 -339.

Lyman, J., Willis, J., and Johnson, G. (2006). Recent cooling of the upper ocean. Geophysical Research letters 33.

Thats enough, I cant be bothered typing any more. What do you make of these, there are quite a few more on the list.

Mark

Thanks Mark,

Some of the links didn't work so let me concentrate on one of your references "Bashkirtsev, V, S. and Mashnich, G, P., (2003). Will we face global warming in the nearest future? Geomagnetism and Aeronomy 43: 124 - 127." http://www.co2science.org/articles/V6/N37/EDIT.php

It encapulates the spirit of your previous post hence it provides a good example.

What I find particularly disturbing about publications like this is that they are easily refuted.

Are students taught to recognize the weaknesses of these alternative views or are they exposed to it simply because it flies against the mainstream view?

If it's the latter then it is a sad state of affairs as it doesn't promote critical thinking and leads to the inevitable illogical conclusions and conspiracy theories that abound in debates like this.

If on the other hand the former is true it allows one to also critically analyse mainstream theory without blindly accepting or rejecting it.

Steven