Can anyone point me to an article in a reputable scientific journal that questions global warming?

Question

Someone please post a citation for a paper in a reputable journal that questions the theory that human activity is responsible for global warming. It needs to be recent, not from 10 years ago when the debate was still going on.

Do not give me any youtube videos, wikipedia, articles in the popular media, etc., only peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Answer 1

It will be hard to get citations for real journal articles from the web, because many publishers do not want to give away their content for free.

However, there is a type of journal called "open access journals" that are available for free, because they are being run by an organization that is not trying to make money, like a university or nonprofit organization. Here are some links to open access science journals that you can check:

http://www.bentham.org/open/toascj/index...

The Open Atmospheric Science Journal is peer reviewed

http://www.bentham.org/open/toenvirj/ind...

The Open Environmental Journal is peer reviewed

http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=subject&cp...

Environmental sciences journals. You will have to check the individual journal websites to see if they say that they are peer-reviewed.

I have a list of open access journal websites on my delicious bookmarks here: http://del.icio.us/jaclyn_mckewan/open_a...

Answer 2

Wait a second...  Global warming alarmists have not proven the theory yet, and we have to disprove it?

That's sort of like putting the cart before the horse.  The proof is more common sense than anything else.  Do you get cold at night?

Does it warm when the sun comes up?

See, people of this generation are so out of synch with nature that it isn't even funny.  When I grew up, I played outside and was actually in nature til the wee hours of the night.  I remember when the sun went down, the air getting cool and us laying on the grass in our yard to feel warm.  Just like when the sun goes down and a swimming pool feels like it is warmer...  Yea, that's CO2 holding all that heat in the air?  

These insidious rants about the Earth warming more at night than the daytime borders insanity.  It gets progressively cold at night, up until the sun comes up and warms us.  

Then, why does dew fall to the ground?  Well, because the air warms a bit quicker than earth and condensates on the colder ground until everything equals out.

CO2?  How in the world if something can't hold its temperature for one night be responsible for warming less than a degree over 10, 20 or even 30 years?

So, you are asking us to disprove something that makes absolutely NO SENSE WHATSOEVER.... hmmmm

Bes we better empty out all those CO2 extinguishers since they mighta be making dem fires hotter....  ehhhh

Den day want peer reviewed scientific evidence that the sun warms us too.  OMG how ridiculous!

Answer 3

Look up" Dr Roy Spencer" He has very good information on why it is a hoax,the way they explain Global Warming,along with their computer models.He was a NASA climatoligist and is currently at University of Alabama.

Answer 4

I don't think there are many recent ones.

Spencer and Christie probably wrote the most debated one but that was a while ago now, where they analysed global temperature measurements through satellite data. This is often cited by global warming sceptics, who then conveniently forget to mention the subsequent follow up papers which showed the flaws in Spencer & Christie's analysis (Wow look! What a prediction - someone just did exactly that straight after this post!).

There is a lot of debate in papers presented to reputable scientific journals about the more precise effects of global warming, time-scales, etc. This is to be expected and as you'd know, is just how science works.

I see Cindy W is still completely confused about the whole topic of radiative cooling, radiation emission and absorbtion, and the difference between temperature variations over dark and daylight hours and what a greenhouse gas does.

Isn't it amazing how when you are so strongly biased against a particular theory that you can't even begin to understand the really basic science behind how things warm and cool?

Answer 5

It's amazing to me how people equate an environmental trend, into "today" and "yesterday".  It takes thousands of years, excluding a massive disaster, for a cycle in nature to happen.

Forget the misnomer of "Global Warming". Explain the environmental anomalies occurring throughout the world. Explain just one of the 132 and then take satisfaction in believing it's all a hoax or fraud.

1. The fabled Northwest Passage, is ice free for the first time in recorded history.....circa 1700. Doesn't that strike someone as "strange".....unusual. The cause doesn't matter whether man made or a natural cycle...............if "warming" was not the cause, then explain what else could have melted that ice pack. Aliens?  George Bush ?  Perhaps it was the Russians.

To this "anomaly" you can add the glacier that supplies water to the Ganges River, the snowcap on Mt. Kilimanjaro and so on and so forth.

Whatever the "reason" the cause should be enough to merit concern, more  than whether it's a conspiracy or fraud perpetrated by big business.

One last note:  My group shares one common thread. We all hope we are wrong and the naysayers are right.

Answer 6

There was one by Singer, Douglass, Christy et al.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Though there were some serious flaws in their analysis:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

It is a skeptical paper which somewhat questions anthropogenic global warming in a reputable scientific journal.  That's the only one I'm aware of, unless you count the galactic cosmic ray theory.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Answer 7

Quarterly Journal of the Hungarian Meteorological Service

Vol. 111, No. 1, January–March 2007, pp. 1–40

Greenhouse effect in semi-transparent planetary atmospheres

Ferenc M. Miskolczi

www.met.hu/doc/idojaras/vol111001_01.p...

I don't know that I'd call this a "reputable scientific journal", but here's the link.