What web sites would give me a balanced view on the issue of Global Warming?

Question

What web sites provide balanced views on the issue of global warming? I want to read good arguments on both sides of the issue to learn more about it.

Answer 1

Go to the NASA and NOAA web sites, download the data and do your own analysis.  If you cannot do this, you really have no place in the debate.

Answer 2

Haha.... Your on probably the best unbiased website on the issue right now.

Read the links and answers people post on the subject. This truly is technically a hall of fair debate.

Answer 3

www agua-luna com

Answer 4

There really is no such thing as a balanced view on global warming.  My suggestion is to go to websites that come down on both sides of the debate.  As you can see in the answers, the pro-global warming crowd tends to believe there is no room for debate.  As Al Gore said, the debate is over and there is a consensus among scientists.  Both parts of that statement are incorrect.

The anti-global warming crowd typically comes up with some questions about the validity of the science.  Unfortunately, the IPCC and the like, typically resort to name-calling rather than disputing the facts.

.edu and .gov sites are NOT unbiased.  NASA had a significant error in its data for a decade before a skeptic brought it to their attention.  Universities have a vested interest in the continuation of the global warming research because they receive grants for the research.  No more global warming scare, no more grant money to research solutions to global warming.  On top of that, so many have become entrenched in global warming that when it is proven to be an invalid theory, that they will lose credibility in the scientific community.  Can you trust someone who has a vested interest in only 1 outcome?  Nope.  Do you trust someone who is lining his pockets with money from George Soros whose lack of objectivity has never been questioned (by Soros himself even)?

Answer 5

just search global warming.

Also, "An Inconvenient Truth" is a wonderful overview of Global Warming and its effects.(written by Al Gore)

Answer 6

As any High School teacher would tell you, the more trustworthy information can generally be found on sites who's URL's end with .edu or .gov

Here are a few to start with:

The 2008 National Academy of Sciences Summary Brochure on Climate Change

http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/clim...



The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Global Warming FAQs

http://www.ucar.edu/news/features/climat...



Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale Global Warming FAQ

http://earth.geology.yale.edu/~sherwood/...



NOAA Global Warming FAQ

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/glob...



EPA Climate Change

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/

And while not a .edu or .gov site, the following site is well worth a quick look.

The Discovery of Global Warming (great history site)

http://www.aip.org/history/climate/

Edit:

5_for_fi - you are either ignorant or intentionally deceptive.  There was no significant error in NASA's data.  It was the equivalent to a hiccup during a rock concert. You can't even see the effect on the global temperature scale (see link below), but NASA immediately corrected it nonetheless.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/update...

Answer 7

There is no balanced view.  The scientific evidence that this is real, and caused by man is overwhelming.

Here are some good websites, with actual data, from simple to complex:

http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/f101.a...

http://environment.newscientist.com/chan...

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/sci...

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

The idea that the discussion here is balanced is ludicrous.

There's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/a...

And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_...

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/fu...

Answer 8

realclimte.org....haha. Yeah, that is real balanced...ha