http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer

“May 19, 2008: The National Academies have released the 2008 edition of “Understanding and Responding to Climate Change,” a free booklet designed to give the public a comprehensive and easy-to-read analysis of findings and recommendations from our reports on climate change.”

http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/climate_change_2008_final.pdf <== here's a good description.
http://www.funnyweather.org/ <== this is a more lighthearted link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect <== and one with too much detail.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10125 <== Michael Oppenheimer, a member of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Committee on Climate Change and professor at Princeton

http://www.lenntech.com/greenhouse-effect/global-warming-history.htm <== btw this is not a new idea.
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/people/klaus.wolter/MEI/ <== why was 1998 hot?

http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/home.html
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/perspectives.html

http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/ <== not regulated by the government.
http://www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/watch/climate_change/change.htm <== good article, and temp graphs.

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=105692
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111511

http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=86846
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/climate.html
http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/global_warming_worldbook.html
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2008/earth_temp.html
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http://yosemite.epa.gov/OAR/globalwarming.nsf/content/ResourceCenterPublicationsUSClimateActionReport.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070202-global-warming.html
http://royalsociety.org/downloaddoc.asp?id=4085

http://www.skepticalscience.com/
http://www.realclimate.org/
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/05/start-here/

I suggest you take the other side, and do some number-running. For the essay you could walk the reader through the process and the logic.

If you take the weight of the atmosphere, (about 14.6 pounds per square inch of the earth) and divide it by the population of the earth.

You get 830,000 tons of atmosphere per person. As a goodly percentage of the people in the earth have a difficult time heating the air within their home, is it plausible that the population of the earth could warm the entire atmosphere?

Those are the two peices of evidence: the correlation, and climate models. Although the link between human activity and climate change is not proven, I believe it is correct and that we should follow the “no regrets” policy and get emissions under control.

Here is a link to the most recent IPCC report. (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) This will fully discuss the evidence.

http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-syr.htm

Science is not something that is debated, no one has a debate over the speed of light. Since science is not debated, then “Global Warming” is not real, you lose, I win.

Permanently installed on roof, January 6, 2008

By Michael (Athens, GA USA) –

This review is from: Sunforce 50048 60-Watt Solar Charging Kit (Misc.)

The panels are installed on my garage roof, wired in to a battery bank and inverter which primarily functions as a very large (4KW) uninterruptible power supply for the house. So far, everything is working fine. They keep the batteries topped off without using power from the grid. Like most manufacturer’s specs, the 60 watt claim is hard to realize. The panels’ current output is about 3.2 amps under bright sun, which yields only about 45 watts into a 12 volt gel cell battery at 14.2 volts. The panels can output about 20 volts which would indeed yield 60 watts, but not while connected with the included charge controller. A MPPT controller would achieve 60 watts, however. The included controller is acceptable in that it works as advertised. One good thing about it is that it does not shunt the panels when the battery is charged, it actually opens the circuit, which means the excess panel output would be available for other uses. I intend to build another device for charging another set of batteries after the primary set is charged. The included inverter works, but I did not use it in the system. Instead, I’ll just keep it around for a portable inverter. Also, I did not use the PVC pipe stand included with the system, instead mounting the panels directly to the roof. The kit did include a variety of connectors allowing use with cigarette lighter plugs and jacks, alligator clips, and hardwire, but the charge controller is only usable if hardwired. I strongly recommend the charge controller be used, as the panels can easily overcharge most any 12 volt battery if a charge controller is not wired in.

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