Global Warming Consensus, Schmensus: A must read ten part series in the Canadian National Post

The Canadian National Post has an excellent ten part series, The Deniers (HT: Drudge Report)(should have been called 'The Skeptics'), which expands on many of the observations presented here (see 'Related' below).

In the introduction to the series, The real deal? , a former man-made global warming proponent (Astrophysicist Nir Shariv) describes his current thinking:

..."Like many others, I was personally sure that CO2 is the bad culprit in the story of global warming. But after carefully digging into the evidence, I realized that things are far more complicated than the story sold to us by many climate scientists or the stories regurgitated by the media.

"In fact, there is much more than meets the eye."

Dr. Shariv's digging led him to the surprising discovery that there is no concrete evidence -- only speculation -- that man-made greenhouse gases cause global warming. Even research from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change-- the United Nations agency that heads the worldwide effort to combat global warming -- is bereft of anything here inspiring confidence. In fact, according to the IPCC's own findings, man's role is so uncertain that there is a strong possibility that we have been cooling, not warming, the Earth. Unfortunately, our tools are too crude to reveal what man's effect has been in the past, let alone predict how much warming or cooling we might cause in the future...

Links to the ten part series:

• Statistics needed -- The Deniers Part I
• Warming is real -- and has benefits -- The Deniers Part II
• The hurricane expert who stood up to UN junk science -- The Deniers Part III
• Polar scientists on thin ice -- The Deniers Part IV
• The original denier: into the cold -- The Deniers Part V
• The sun moves climate change -- The Deniers Part VI
• Will the sun cool us? -- The Deniers Part VII
• The limits of predictability -- The Deniers Part VIII
• Look to Mars for the truth on global warming -- The Deniers Part IX
• Limited role for C02 -- the Deniers Part X

Related:

• More Global Warming Consensus, Schmensus
• Global Warming Consensus, Schmensus
• Must See TV: Senator Inhofe to hold hearing on Climate Change and the Media
• Global Warming Gag Order Senators to Exxon: Shut up, and pay up.(HT: BizzyBlog: Quote of the Day: Bjorn Lomborg on the Global Warming Hysteria)
• Renowned Scientist Defects From Belief in Global Warming – Caps Year of Vindication for Skeptics
• See You at the Global Warming Nuremberg
• Senator Inhofe Fisks the Media on Global Warming Coverage
• New York Times is conveniently incomplete in reporting sources of greenhouse gases
• 60 Minutes on melting ice caps on Earth...let's see if they cover Mars' melting ice caps as well
• More evidence of global warming...but probably not where radical environmentalist expected it
• "The Global Warming Bugaboo"
• Coyote Blog: A Skeptics Primer for "An Inconvenient Truth"
• Gore's Hot Air: Flaky Flick Suffers from 'Truth' Decay
• Robert Samuelson: Global Warming's Real Inconvenient Truth
• Greenhouse theory smashed by biggest stone
• Sunshine on Global Warming claims