Talk:List of climate change controversies/sides
Sides in the global warming controversy
[edit]For future reference, as they were on the article before removal:
Supporters of the global warming theory
[edit]Scientific organisations that have stated support of the current scientific opinion on climate change include:
- The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- The national academies of science of the G8 countries and Brazil, the People's Republic of China and India [1]
- The US National Academy of Sciences, both in its 2002 report to President George W. Bush, and in its latest publications
- The American Meteorological Society [2]
- The American Geophysical Union [3]
- The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) [4]
Opponents of the global warming theory
[edit]Organisations that have expressed opposition of the current scientific opinion on climate change include:
- Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
- Competitive Enterprise Institute
- Cooler Heads Coalition
- George C. Marshall Institute
- Fraser Institute
- Friends of Science
- Heartland Institute
- Heritage Foundation
- International Policy Network
- Ludwig von Mises Institute
- Western Fuels Association
List of scientists opposing global warming consensus includes:
- Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon, astrophysicists (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
- William M. Gray, tropical meteorologist (Colorado State University)
- Richard Lindzen, atmospheric dynamicist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Frederick Seitz, solid-state physicist (former president of the National Academy of Sciences)
- Kary Mullis, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1993), biochemist and inventor of PCR
Category:Global warming skeptics include:
- Ann Coulter, conservative pundit
- Michael Crichton, science-fiction novelist, author of the global-warming themed State of Fear
- Andrey Illarionov, former economic advisor to Russian president Vladimir Putin
- Ross McKitrick, economics professor
- Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic
- Patrick Moore (environmentalist), a founding member of Greenpeace
Are the above all outside the scientific community? Crichton has an M.D. degree, McKitrick's a professor; not sure about Moore. (scientific community in this context means climate science, not all sciences. economics isn't a science anyway. also someone who has an m.d. but hasn't been practicing yet alone involved in research for a very long time can hardly be called a scientist)
Former skeptics include:
- Richard Branson, British entrepreneur
- John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia
- Pat Robertson, televangelist