This document discusses the debate around climate change and global warming. It presents perspectives from both sides of the debate, including skepticism of the science from some politicians and acceptance of the human role from some businesses. It also summarizes the "Climategate" controversy involving hacked emails from a climate research unit. While some used the emails to argue the science is disproven, the rebuttal is that nothing in the emails undermines the established science that global warming is occurring and human-caused. The document provides context around the political debate through various quotes and sources.

4. flat earthers – slang
Flat earthers is a recognizable slang
reference to persons or organizations
who cling to antiquarian beliefs
which have long since been disproven.
--- Wikipedia

5. The fools on the hill
SENATOR JAMES INHOFE (R-OK)
GLOBAL WARMING IS
“the greatest hoax
ever perpetrated on
the American
people”.
Only 1 of Congressional Republicans
1%
think Global Warming is real

6. The shrilla from Wasilla
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/04/sarah-palin-climategate-c_n_379961.html

7. muddy the waters -- idiom
Confuse the issue, as in Bringing up
one irrelevant fact after another,
he succeeded in muddying the waters.
– American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms

8. “I just had a phone call where
someone said Sarah Palin’s web
site had talked about the House bill
having death panels on it where
people would be euthanized. How
someone could take an end of life
directive or a living will as that is
nuts”.
---Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA)

9. The No Consensus Argument

11. Joint Science Academies’ Statement
June 2005
“[T]hreat of climate change is clear
and increasing”
“[P]rompt action required to reduce the
causes of climate change”
--- Signed by 1 National Academies of Science
1
United States * Canada * Brazil * United Kingdom * France * Italy * Germany * Russia * India * China * Japan
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12. 21 National Academies of Science Have
Called for Action on Climate Change
“It is unequivocal that the climate is changing, and it is
very likely that this is predominantly caused by the
increasing human interference with the atmosphere. These
changes will transform the environmental conditions on
Earth unless counter-measures are taken.”
--- 2007 Joint Statement, Signed by 13 National Academies of Science
United States * Australia * Belgium* Brazil * Caribbean * Canada * China * France * Germany * India * Indonesia *,
Ireland * Italy * Japan * Malaysia * Mexico * New Zealand * Russia * South Africa * Switzerland * United Kingdom
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13. Not to mention these
radical environmentalists
• Shell Oil Co.
"It's a waste of time to debate it," he said. "Policymakers have
a responsibility to address it. The nation needs a public policy.
We'll adjust."
• Munich Reinsurance
"We need to stop this dangerous experiment humankind is
conducting on the Earth's atmosphere."
• Wal-Mart
"Global warming is real, now, and it must be addressed."
• DuPont
“We came to the conclusion that the science was compelling
and that action should be taken”
• Swiss Reinsurance
"Risk of climate change is real. It's here. It's affecting our
business today,“
• NRG Energy
“Companies and industries which deny the issue will be
marginalized."
• ConocoPhillips, Deere & Co., The Dow Chemical Company,
DuPont, Exelon Corporation, Ford Motor Company, Johnson &
Johnson, PepsiCo., Shell, Xerox – all support Cap and Trade
legislation
Source: http://logicalscience.com/consensus/consensusD1.htm

15. Current Hullabaloo Over
Hacked CRU Emails
Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia
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16. Current Hullabaloo Over
Hacked CRU Emails
Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia
Wikipedia summary: The stolen material comprised more than 1,000 e-mails, 2,000
documents, as well as commented Fortran source code, pertaining to climate change research
covering a period from 1996 until 2009. Some of the e-mails purportedly included discussions
of how to combat the arguments of climate change skeptics, unflattering comments about
skeptics, queries from journalists, drafts of scientific papers, keeping scientists who have
contrary views out of peer-review literature, and talk of destroying various files in order to
prevent data being revealed under the Freedom of Information Act.
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17. Current Hullabaloo Over
Hacked CRU Emails
Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia
Wikipedia summary: The stolen material comprised more than 1,000 e-mails, 2,000
documents, as well as commented Fortran source code, pertaining to climate change research
covering a period from 1996 until 2009. Some of the e-mails purportedly included discussions
of how to combat the arguments of climate change skeptics, unflattering comments about
skeptics, queries from journalists, drafts of scientific papers, keeping scientists who have
contrary views out of peer-review literature, and talk of destroying various files in order to
prevent data being revealed under the Freedom of Information Act.
Involves just one research institution and while it may reflect poorly
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on the scientists in the email – nothing undermines the science itself.

18. Joy in Mudville
Climate-gate: the final nail in the coffin
of “anthropogenic global warming – James
Delingpole
“The global warming scandal of the
century” – Michelle Malkin
The debate's over. There's no global
warming – Sean Hannity

19. Mud Fest
said to senator boxer re:
climate change legislation,
“it’s
over. Get a life.
You lost. I won!’
- Sen. James Inhofe

20. Arctic Mud
SUPPORTS INHOFE CALL FOR “ full
investigation into this scandal.
Because it involves many of the same
personalities and entities behind the
Copenhagen conference, Climate-
gate calls into question many of the
proposals being pushed there,
including anything that would lead
to a cap and tax plan.”
ADMITS CLIMATE CHANGE IS OCCURRING –
WHICH SHE HAS OBSERVED “firsthand while
serving as governor of our only Arctic
state. But while we recognize the
effects . . . we cannot primarily blame
man’s activities for the earth’s
cyclical weather changes.” -- Sarah
palin.

21. The Rebuttal
The verdict on global warming is in -- it's caused by humans and it is
happening and nothing in the emails challenges that. . . . . "ClimateGate"
itself is a misnomer. Perhaps the nickname should be "SwiftHack" for the
way people with political agendas have "swiftboated" the global warming
reality. As world attention turns to the climate conference in Copenhagen
this December, this email hack acts as a distraction from the huge task at
hand of getting world leaders to commit to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions. As professor Richard Somerville says, "We're facing an effort by
special interests who are trying to confuse the public."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/02/climategate-the-7-biggest_n_371223.html

30. http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/environment/global-warming-
environment/global-warming-101.html
http://www.missiontohumanity.com/2009/01/global-warming-gores-
senate-ppt-on.html

31. The Effects of Global Warming

32. http://www.slideshare.net/archana1372/global-warming-1137740
http://www.slideshare.net/Philazine/global-warming-and-climate-change-presentation

33. http://www.geo.umass.edu/climate/global_warming_update.pdf
http://www.slideshare.net/garimaaggarwal/whats-up-with-global-warming

35. http://energycommerce.house.gov/Pres
s_111/20090623/hr2454_rulessummary.
pdf
http://globalwarming.house.gov/files/WEB/ACESPacket/ACESCleanEnergyPlan.pdf
http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=1845

37. http://bennetkelley.wordpress.com/about/