Talk:List of climate change controversies/sides

Sides in the global warming controversy
For future reference, as they were on the article before removal:

Supporters of the global warming theory
Scientific organisations that have stated support of the current scientific opinion on climate change include:
 * The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
 * The national academies of science of the G8 countries and Brazil, the People's Republic of China and India
 * The US National Academy of Sciences, both in its 2002 report to President George W. Bush, and in its latest publications
 * The American Meteorological Society
 * The American Geophysical Union
 * The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Opponents of the global warming theory
Organisations that have expressed opposition of the current scientific opinion on climate change include:


 * Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
 * Competitive Enterprise Institute
 * Cooler Heads Coalition
 * George C. Marshall Institute
 * Fraser Institute
 * Friends of Science
 * Heartland Institute
 * Heritage Foundation
 * International Policy Network
 * Ludwig von Mises Institute
 * Western Fuels Association

List of scientists opposing global warming consensus includes:
 * Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon, astrophysicists (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
 * William M. Gray, tropical meteorologist (Colorado State University)
 * Richard Lindzen, atmospheric dynamicist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
 * Frederick Seitz, solid-state physicist (former president of the National Academy of Sciences)
 * Kary Mullis, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1993), biochemist and inventor of PCR

Category:Global warming skeptics include:
 * Ann Coulter, conservative pundit
 * Michael Crichton, science-fiction novelist, author of the global-warming themed State of Fear
 * Andrey Illarionov, former economic advisor to Russian president Vladimir Putin
 * Ross McKitrick, economics professor
 * Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic
 * Patrick Moore (environmentalist), a founding member of Greenpeace

Are the above all outside the scientific community? Crichton has an M.D. degree, McKitrick's a professor; not sure about Moore. (scientific community in this context means climate science, not all sciences. economics isn't a science anyway. also someone who has an m.d. but hasn't been practicing yet alone involved in research for a very long time can hardly be called a scientist)

Former skeptics include:
 * Richard Branson, British entrepreneur
 * John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia
 * Pat Robertson, televangelist