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• For: How climate cange will affect the world (Link)
  The effects of climate change will be felt sooner than scientists realised and the world must learn to live with the effects, experts said yesterday.(Sept 19, 2007)
• For: Global Warming - How It Could Spark World War III (Link)
  In much the same way that Big Tobacco once vehemently denied the association between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, for the longest time a number of multi-billion-dollar-a-year industries have also been questioning the existence of global warming and misleading the public about its reality.
• For: Dr. James Hansen of Columbia (Link)
  Dr. Hansen writes "As a college student in Iowa, I was attracted to science and research by James Van Allen's space science program in the physics and astronomy department. Since then, it only took me a decade or so to realize that the most exciting planetary research involves trying to understand the climate change on Earth that will result from anthropogenic changes of the atmospheric composition."
• For: A Planetary Problem (Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert) (Link)
  Elizabeth Kolbert travelled from Alaska to Greenland, and visited top scientists, to get to the heart of the debate over global warming. Her three-part series on climate change appeared in The New Yorker in 2005; her new book, “Field Notes From a Catastrophe,” which grew out of the articles, will be published by Bloomsbury in March. Last April, she discussed her work with Amy Davidson.
• For: James Gustave Speth Editorial
  "Time for Something Different" is a call to action to mitigate the effects of global warming.
• For: Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air (Link)
  The Union of Concerned Scientists report
• For: A Denunciation of the Arguments against Global Warming (Link)
  This html page is by Chris Crawford
• For: Peter Doran Times Op-Ed
  This is an opinion piece by a scientist who was misquoted and used by some global warming "debunkers." Here he is setting the record straight.
• For: Green Economy: After Oil (Link)
  A collection of several articles discussing how we can make the moves we need to after "Peak Oil."
• A Mix of Oil and Environmentalism (Link)
  New York Times article about a battle to protect the local salmon and gray whales of Russia from the world’s largest oil companies.
• Against: Behavior of World's Glaciers Fails to Prove Global Warming Theory (Link)
  A conservative think tank web site that believes that private property owners are "the best stewards of the environment."
• Against: Arguments Against The Global Warming Theory (Link)
  This isa summary page with links to some of the main arguments against Global Warming. What do you think and where do you stand on this "social balance" question?
• Against: The Competitive Enterprise Institute (Link)
  A leading conservative voice on free market approaches to environmental policy.
• Against: US answer to global warming: smoke and giant space mirrors (Link)
  Washington urges scientists to develop ways to reflect sunlight as 'insurance'
• Against: Danish scientist: Global warming is a myth
  COPENHAGEN, March 15, 2007 (UPI) -- A Danish scientist said the idea of a "global temperature" and global warming is more political than scientific.