Scott Mandia, who posts comments on this site under the stealth name Scott A. Mandia, has created a terrific presentation, Global Warming: Separating Fact from Fiction [PDF].
Like Katharine Hayhoe’s work I posted about recently (see Must see presentation from Dr. Hayhoe), Scott’s makes excellent use of graphics. Scott also pulls together quite a few telling quotations about various sub-topics[1], and does a lot of skilled connection of points. He also includes a few slides on our friends in the media, plus the deniers, a.k.a. the Vast Psychiatric-Wing Conspiracy (my term, not Scott’s).
This presentation is likely a little on the deep side for newcomers, and therefore might serve best as a back-pocket reference for those of us talking to newcomers. In either case, it’s a welcome addition.
[1] And he includes, on slide 10, one of my all-time favorite quotations albeit in abbreviated form. The full version is: “They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” The speaker was, of course, Carl Sagan.
Thanks, Lou, for the plug.
The .PDF file was for a presentation I gave last December just before Copenhagen. A little later, I created a Web page based on these slides that fills in some of the descriptions that do not appear on the slides. See below:
http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/global_warming/global_warming_misinformation.html