I have found a lot of really great resources for parents, teachers and educators. Please note that these resources do not preach the faith-based global warming mantra. Nor should these materials be considered “alternative opinion” or “skeptics viewpoints” or outside of the “mainstream”.
On the contrary, our students need factual and scientific learning materials that are published by authoritative sources. These books and DVD’s present the issues of Earth Science, Global Warming and Climate Change in a challenging format of critical thinking and the scientific method.
If you have continued along on my website so far, I assume that you are a parent or teacher that has been desperately looking for quality resources to help teach your kids about the Earth.
These kids ARE our future, the scientists of the next generation - they deserve rational straight-talk.
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Dr. Roy W. Spencer, Climate Confusion, 2008
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Dr. Roy W. Spencer, 2008 Encounter Books
Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor
This book is appropriate for middle school and high school, talented and gifted students.
You can see and read about 10 pages of excerpts at Dr. Roy W. Spencer’s website at the link above. This book is available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. When I checked Amazon it was about $15.
Roy W. Spencer received his Ph.D. in meteorology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981. Before becoming a Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2001, he was a Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, where he and Dr. John Christy received NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for their global temperature monitoring work with satellites. Dr. Spencer’s work with NASA continues as the U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite. He has provided congressional testimony several times on the subject of global warming.
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The Greening of Planet Earth Continues (DVD)
The Greening of Planet Earth Continues (DVD)
Languages: English.
Format: NTSC only.
Picture Format: 4:3.
Length: (approx) 28 minutes
Available at CO2science.org for about $12.
The controversy over the effects of increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) on nature — and the fossil fuel combustion that contributes to it — continues to intensify. Despite solid evidence to the contrary, many media reports speculate that increasing CO2 levels will result in apocalyptic global warming and eventual environmental disaster.
In The Greening of Planet Earth Continues, expert scientists assert that CO2 is not a pollutant, but a nutrient to life on earth. The video further explores issues addressed in our first video, The Greening of Planet Earth, which has been distributed to more than 30,000 people worldwide.
Learn the facts about climate history and the problems with computer simulations used to predict the impact of increasing CO2 levels. Discover what increasing CO2 levels really mean — faster plant growth, greater agricultural yields and improved water-use efficiency in plants. Evidence shows a picture of the ongoing industrial evolution of humankind as the greeing of planet earth continues.
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Avoiding Plant and Animal Extinctions (DVD)
Carbon Dioxide and the Climate Crisis - Avoiding Plant and Animal Extinctions (DVD)
Languages: English.
Format: NTSC (for North America, Japan and some other countries)
Picture Format: 16:9.
Length: (approx) 37 minutes.
Original Release Date: 2008, by CO2Science
Full PDF transcript with references on disk, Interactive Menu, Chapter Selection
Available at CO2science.org for about $12.
NASA’s James Hansen claims that in response to CO2-induced global warming, “polar species can be pushed off the planet, as they have no place else to go,” and that life in alpine regions “is similarly in danger of being pushed off the planet,” while England’s Sir John Houghton says “we are in danger of losing thousands, if not millions, of species because of climate change.”
These ominous words of warning sound logical enough, but are they true? In this second DVD of our CARBON DIOXIDE AND THE “CLIMATE CRISIS” series, we explore this question via a review of the findings of numerous researchers who have reported their real-world observations — as opposed to the hypothetical scenarios of Hansen and Houghton — in peer-reviewed scientific literature. What they have found will truly amaze you.
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Lavoisier Society - Thank God for Carbon
Thank God for Carbon
The arguments advanced in support of restructuring Australia’s industries to a ‘carbon restricted’ economy are based on the theory that anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide will cause catastrophic climate change. It is claimed that burning fossil fuels during the twentieth century has caused global temperatures to rise and that unless these emissions are drastically curtailed the world will reach a ‘tipping point’ that will trigger ‘runaway global warming’. It is claimed that it will be the end of the world as we have known it for thousands of years.
As part of this doctrinal structure, the sixth element of the periodic table, carbon, has been cast as a symbol of mankind’s malevolent behaviour towards the planet, and it has been demonized accordingly. This demonization of carbon is an absurdity. Carbon is essential to the biosphere. Carbon dioxide [CO2] is fundamental to life-supporting processes such as photosynthesis. Without carbon and carbon dioxide, there would be no life on earth. The average human body is 18 per cent carbon by weight.
All of the predictions of rising temperatures, melting ice-caps, rising sea-levels, acidifying oceans, dying coral reefs, more frequent droughts, are all based on simulations carried out on very large computer models of the world’s climate. All the models are constructed on the assumption of global warming caused by increasing atmospheric CO. These climate models have suffered major credibility setbacks in recent years. They have been unable to predict the temperatures we have actually experienced, particularly since 1998, as temperatures have remained stationary or, as in the last two years, declined by 0.7 degrees C, despite increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Furthermore, there have been major changes in the model predictions, but these have not diminished the faith of the global warmers (or carbonistas), nor of the policy makers who follow them.
You may order copies of the book by e-mail from the Lavoisier Society order@lavoisier.com.au. Please include your name and postal address and the number of copies you would like to receive. The Lavoisier Group would be grateful to receive donations to cover postage and printing costs.
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