January 7th, 2010 at 09:10am
Very informative article and you have many good points.
I understand if you wish not to reply to this comment though I am purely here for argument sake just to raise some questions.
Have you considered the long term graphs it which has clearly been shown that the Earth has a cycle where it experiences glacial and interglacial periods? The current interglacial period we are in is in fact not reaching temperatures as high as previous cycles and is just reaching it's peak. The sun has been proven to experience times of raised heat as well as lowered temperatures. If we experience cycles in every other aspect of life and nature, why would our glacial and interglacial periods be any different? They of course take longer to see the changes, a few hundred years, but once you look back over data it is clear.
Also a graph commonly used to show the rise in CO2 levels as well as temperature could be thought of showing that the CO2 level effects the temperature but what if you were to take in the knowledge that the seas have a large impact on the CO2 levels of the Earth and it's atmosphere so if the Earth's temperature was to rise this could effect the amount of CO2 levels that the oceans take from our atmosphere.
Thank you for reading my comment and I am sorry to say I don't have a list of resources at this time.
The majority of the evidence presented is from Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' with all the sources mentioned in this film; I definitely recommend watching this. As I mention no sources, I hope that by you watching this film, you will be convinced by this side of the argument.