This week, we will focus on the state of current knowledge on climate change. We build on the previous week’s discussion of a 1990 article by Richard Lindzen, which articulated a series of reasons to be skeptical about the (at the time) predicted impacts of CO2 on warming. This week, we will read the “Technical Summary” from the most recent IPCC report of the Working Group I (“The Physical Science Basis”). In addition, each participant should identify a climate change skeptic and find at least one recent scholarly paper by him/her. We will report to one another on the papers we found and discuss them in relation to the assertions found in the IPCC report.
Some examples of past skeptics include: Richard Lindzen, Robert Balling, Sherwood Idso, and Patrick Michaels.
The link to the Technical Summary can be found at: