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An Unbiased Source on Climate Change

Also known as a "Needle in a Haystack"

The Copenhagen Diagnosis was originally a book created by 26 individual leading climate change experts around the world. It was mainly created to serve as an in-depth analysis of all the recent scientific data surrounding global warming in the early 2000's. This data was then condensed down and prepared as a report for a climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in December of 2009. The book can be purchased online and the report itself can also be downloaded for free. The executive summary is a quick and easy to read 1 page summary of each of the topics that the book presents. This can be found by clicking here.

The summary on it's own is a good source of information but the actual report is even better. The summary has a few key points that it makes that is good information to cite for almost any research paper. For starters, it announces that the original models for rising sea levels were off almost by a factor of two and that, by 2100, sea levels were more likely to rise 2-3 meters. Along with this, they state that even after global warming slows (whether by manmade power or not it seems) we should still expect to see a rise in sea level over the coming centuries. They also go on, in the final to paragraph to summarize what exactly must be done in order to stabilize the climate. They cite that we will have to reduce our per capita emissions down to under 1 metric ton of CO2 by 2050. Which is 80-95% below the usage of developed nations as of 2000.

The main reason that this can be viewed as a good source is that it was created by so many different people with so many different sources. All of which are listed clearly with background descriptions on each experiment and scientist. On the author's page of the website, they list the occupation of each author at the time. As an example, the following are direct quotes from the website containing each author's bio;

Bindschadler, Robert

"Robert Bindschadler is Chief Scientist of the Laboratory 

for Hydrospheric and Biospheric Processes at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 

USA, a Senior Fellow of NASA Goddard, an AGU Fellow and 

past President of the International Glaciological Society."

Mann, Michael
"Michael E. Mann is a Professor in the Department 

of Meteorology at Penn State University, USA, 

Director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center, 

and a Lead Author of the IPCC Third Assessment Report."