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Background on this topic
In late 2009, the Climategate controversy brought new attention to the debate about whether human actions are causing changes to the earth's climate system.On December, 6 2009, just before the UN climate talks began in Copenhagen, the Wall Street Journal ran an article by Michael Totty entitled What Global Warming? A look at the arguments the skeptics make—and how believers respond. Totty's piece summarized the leading arguments of climate skeptics and those of climate change proponents.
The Collaboratorium community believed this article could serve as a good jumping off point for an online conversation about this important question.
The community thus created a new Debate topic entitled, Is the earth's climate changing due to human activity?
The initial Debate summary for this topic was based on the the positions of climate skeptics and proponents articulated in Totty's WSJ article.
How you can participate
Members of the Collaboratorium community are invited to participate by going to the Debates page and adding comments to the questions under the heading "Is the earth's climate changing due to human activity?"Comments can be added to any post by clicking on the "Add a comment" link below that post.
All user comments will appear in the Discussion tab associated with this debate (for more on the workings of Debate summaries and Discussions, see Debates help).
Collaboratorium moderators will review comments with the goal of finding new and interesting ideas that they will then insert into the Debate summary.
Community members are also invited to vote for the positions they find most convincing. You can vote for a position by clicking on the Thumbs up icon under the text in the lower left corner.
We are working to extend the Collaboratorium's software functionality so that users will be able to make direct suggestions of new posts they believe should be added to the Debate summary. We'll let you know when that new functionality is ready.
Resources
We invite users to add publications and links to web materials and videos that are relevant to this debate to the References to resources about climate change page.
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