Some instructive links on global warming (also climatology and climate change):

• The Royal Society.
  A guide to facts and fictions about climate change (PDF file here), April 2005.
  [Note on printing the PDF file: Since the document is formatted for A4 paper you will need to adjust margins when printing on 8.5x11 paper.]


• How to Talk to a Global Warming Sceptic assembled by Coby Beck


• Real Climate's page on The IPCC Fourth Assessment Summary for Policymakers : http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf


• Climate change: some basics by Jan Schloerer (last updated 21 Feb 2007, as of this writing)


• NASA Earth Observatory Reference Library


• Natural Variation of the climate system at Open Mind, a climate science blog by "Tamino"
  (a very good illustration and explanation of the concept of variance)


• The Discovery of Global Warming by Spencer Weart
  (also has a very nice page of links: Where to Find Other Information)

(last updated: 01 March 2007)

David Johnson (School of Earth Sciences, James Cook University).
The Geology of Australia.
Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Book information: Amazon.com, Cambridge UP Australia, Cambridge UP USA.

Excellent, insightful:

• Glenn Greenwald

Also very good and not to be overlooked:

• Informed Comment by Juan Cole


• Today in Iraq


• TomDispatch.com by Tom Engelhardt

Recent articles and essays about Iraq and Iran:

Dafna Linzer. Al-Qaeda Suspects Color White House Debate Over Iran, The Washington Post, 10 February 2007.
[very important: documents the Bush administration's unwillingness to deal constructively with Iran]

Karen DeYoung. U.S. Keeps Pressure on Iran But Decreases Saber Rattling, The Washington Post, 11 February 2007.

William E. Odom. Victory Is Not an Option: The Mission Can't Be Accomplished -- It's Time for a New Strategy, The Washington Post, 11 February 2007. [insightful]

A website devoted to Iraq war news: Today in Iraq.

(this entry revised 09 Feb 2007)

Recent essays about Iraq and Iran:

Gary Kamiya. "Bush's Iran madness", Salon.com, 06 February 2007. [very insightful]

David Ignatius. "Expect The Worst In Iraq", The Washington Post, 07 February 2007.

Andrew J. Bacevich. "Going for Broke: Endorsing the Baker report would have meant denouncing his entire foreign policy, so Bush is betting everything on the neocons’ surge", The American Conservative, 29 Jaunary 2007.

Tom Engelhardt. Over the Cliff with George and Dick?: Thelma and Louise Imperialism, TomDispatch.com, 08 February 2007.

Eric Fair. "An Iraq Interrogator's Nightmare", The Washington Post, 09 February 2007. [very important]

Phillip Carter. "There Are Four Iraq Wars: How many of them can we win?", Slate.com, 09 February 2007.

Last but not least, the best website I've seen for daily news of the Iraq war: Juan Cole's Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion. (This website is in stark contrast to the American news media where "Iraq news" focuses more on political maneuvering in Washington rather than reporting on actual events in Iraq. For example, for how many years was the American public unaware of the distinctions between Shia and Sunni and more generally the political makeup of the broader Middle East?)

Waitangi Day is February 6.

Notable essay:

Mark Diesendorf (Institute of Environmental Studies, Universtiy of New South Wales).
"Leaders still avoiding the big issue", The Sydney Morning Herald, 06 February 2007.

This issue they're ignoring: that low/non- carbon dioxide emitting energy generation technologies exist today and can be more widely deployed now; that it is not necessary to wait 10 to 20 years for large scale implementation of carbon dioxide capture/storage in fossil fuel power generation or improved/cleaner/safer nuclear power generation; that legislative/regulatory/financial incentives to control carbon dioxide emissions can be implemented now; and that less polluting transportation systems and technologies can be used now.

Notable essay:

Chris Mooney and Alan Sokal.
"Can Washington get smart about science?", Los Angeles Times, 04 February 2007.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change http://www.ipcc.ch/.
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis: Summary for Policymakers http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf [PDF].

This entry at RealClimate: Climate science from climate scientists seems to me a good introduction to refuting global warming deniers.

Websites, etc. about global warming and the global warming deniers:

RealClimate: Climate science from climate scientists

The Discovery of Global Warming by Spencer R. Weart.

CBC News: the fifth estate - The Denial Machine a documentary broadcast in November 2006, identifies the global warming deniers; the Resources webpage of The Denial Machine also lists global warming deniers' websites. The following links (refuting the deniers) were obtained from that page.

DeSmogBlog: Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science

The Heat Is Online

Think Progress

ExxonSecrets.org: How ExxonMobil Funds the Climate Change Skeptics

David Suzuki Foundation: Climate Change Skeptics

Monbiot.com [Motto: Tell people something they know already and they will thank you for it. Tell them something new and they will hate you for it.]

Climate Science Watch