Talk:List of climate change controversies/sides

Sides in the global warming controversy

For future reference, as they were on the article before removal:

Supporters of the global warming theory

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

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