Which scientific journals to search for global warming naysayers?

February 12, 2008 8:59 AM

I'm researching scientists who dispute / are skeptics of man-made climate change (a la the UN IPCC's findings.) Which peer reviewed, scholarly science journals should I be searching through?
posted by damnthesehumanhands to science & nature (8 comments total)

The National Post did a series of editorials profiling climate change scientist-skeptics.

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/pages/the-deniers.aspx

You can search for the named individuals to see whether they've written pieces in Nature, etc.
posted by storybored at 9:06 AM on February 12

Nature and Science are a good start.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 9:07 AM on February 12

Or you could just go to the Wikipedia page "List of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming", which is extensively footnoted.
posted by WestCoaster at 10:17 AM on February 12

Virtually none of WikiP's "footnotes" for this article are to recognised peer reviewed journals. Most of them reference popular newspapers or magazines, and think tank & foundation offerings.
posted by meehawl at 10:28 AM on February 12

I can't point to any specifically, but Climate Debate Daily tries to equally represent believers and dissenters and I'm sure by following some links you will reach some serious journals.
posted by dzot at 10:46 AM on February 12

Poking around further from WestCoaster's link, I found Surveys of scientists and scientific literature [on climate change]. It looks like Naomi Oreski's paper is the most significant survey of published papers on the topic: "none of the abstracts disagreed with the consensus position, which the author found to be "remarkable"." You might find the journals she lists to be a useful starting point. (I haven't read her paper, so I don't know which ones those are.)
posted by epersonae at 11:02 AM on February 12

Deltoid is a science/statistics blog; the global warming posts there might be useful.
posted by dogrose at 12:55 PM on February 12

Realclimate is a site dedicated to explaining the claims and counter-claims regarding global warming. Most of their coverage of skeptics is in dissection of their papers and arguments. This is usually unflattering overall, which is unsurprising given the current status of the debate. However, IIRC, they are pretty good at acknowledging the odd point here and there which brings legitimate scrutiny on specifics of methodology, metrology etc. Their "start here" section has links to discussions of common contrarian arguments which, while again unflattering, contain many references and links to the hotbeds of contrarian revolt.
posted by Jakey at 3:31 PM on February 12 [1 favorite]