I am ashamed to admit that i have not studied the literature sufficiently to be convinced that global warming is a real problem that needs to be urgently addressed.   Consequently i have started this jump list to put the literature i find in one place in a organized fashion. 

I have chosen (arbitrarily ) the icon "" to label references which supports the bolded proposition, and "" to label references which do not.  I will organize each major catagory such that what i have determined to be the most important will be listed on the top of that catagory. 

Please limit your comments on this item to helping build this organized list ... polarizing rhetoric will be deleted ... however new references and  reasoned arguments regarding my classifications or prioritizations are certainly solicited.   If a group of level headed commenters emerges, then we can form a group here or wherver and the study can continue without my dictatorial control. 

• encyclopedic presentations
• Wikipedia
• encyclopedic presentations
• none that i know of yet
  

• emotional media and rhetoric designed to win hearts and minds
  
• An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
• emotional media and rhetoric designed to win hearts and minds
• Hurricane expert William Gray: Global warming is a hoax.  see also Global-warming skeptics continue to punch away and many others citing William Gray's message .
  
• Summaries of the scientific consensus
  
• The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change by Naomi Oreskes
• Summaries of the scientific consensus
• Open Kyoto to debate: Sixty scientists call on Harper to revisit the science of global warming
• International Bodies and treaties addressing the issue
• IPCC The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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  Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis
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  The National Academy of Sciences "Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years (2006)" prepared for the US Congress.
  
• Kyoto Protocol ...
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ...
  
• International Bodies and treaties addressing the issue
• Global Climate Coalition  (GCC).  [google global climate coalition] ... see also How Big Business Covered Up Global Warming by Aaron Swartz here and this article at The Center For Media and Democracy... also study  E-mail correspondence between S. Fred Singer and Ben Santer ...  It's difficult to find an unbiased positive presentation of this material  but i am still looking.  The GCC has disbanded saying "The industry voice on climate change has served its purpose by contributing to a new national approach to global warming".  We need to determine just what that new approach was.
  

Sources of media and information that has not yet been classified:

• Climate Change: Senate EPW's Wheeler defends committee stance on global warming science (05/25/2006) a video
• Tim Flannery, author of "The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth", discusses various "tipping points" that exist within the Earth's climate, and why these changes could prove to be irreversible. a video

Obviously this is still a very partual list.  It is a work in progress.  It will probably appear again and again in the river as i complete my inquiry.