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Originally Posted by 2stroke
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Jay, you've been 'had'.
The site you have linked sources its information from a group that calls itself the 'friends of science' (they are anything but)
If you dig a little deeper, you will find that none of the expert scientist that they reference have expertise in the field of climate science. One in particular deserves comment.. Christopher Monkton. Even amongst climate skeptics, he is universally regarded as a charlatan.
Also, when you look a little deeper at the organisations that are funding the contrarian view (that you linked) the funding traces back to vested interests in the petroleum institute.
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I think the name of the site says it all, stop reading the news papers and start reading the papers.
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On this point we agree....However, if you have some sense of emotional attachment to your current world view, you might find the exercise disappointing. Rather than giving you a list of peer reviewed scientific papers on climate science, I would encourage you to have a look at them yourself. How many can you find that actually support climate change denial? There are only two that I am aware of, one of them has already been withdrawn due to issues relating plagiarism and poor data, the other has credibility issues and is a poster child for the practice of abusing the peer review process (for commercial advantage). But by all means give it a go.
As for the 10 points listed on the page that you linked, they have already been thoroughly debunked by the scientific community. If you would like confirmation on this point, feel free to pick the one that in your opinion most ably demonstrates your argument, and in return I will point you in the direction of scientific papers that will (hopefully) put the issue in a more objective context.