[Strawbale] Global warming

[Mark Fox]

David, I agree that Ron's assertion is...a little strong. Of course,
in my experience it has largely been true.

As a scientist, I like to go straight to papers published in reputable
refereed journals and ignore everything else (especially popular
magazine covers). From that seat, there is no debate that the climate
is changing and that we are the cause. There is debate about what will
happen and what we should do.

Papers on climate change are published in Nature and Science fairly
regularly. If you want to have an opinion on this issue, those
journals are a good place to start. The latest IPCC report is what
people are talking about at the moment. As a collection of peer
reviewed papers, and from my experience with past IPCC reports, it is
likely an excellent survey of the literature and not a bad place to
get some background. (I haven't read the latest report yet.) The
Wikipedia page on global warming is also necessarily balanced, well
referenced, easy to digest, but a bit scattered. It's worth a look.

I would expect the strawbale community to feel that climate change is
compelling enough a topic to dig a bit deeper than the mainstream
media.

Mark Fox
Stettler, AB