Tutorials
The sections below are arranged in an order to develop an understanding of the basics and the science and then the politics. The tutorials contain over 215 pages of quick hitting information, and are meant to build an understanding without having to take a short course on each topic. It is however comprehensive as is this website.
The sections can be shown diagrammaticlly as shown below. Click on any heading in the outline to begin the tutorial on that section.
Consensus: is the consensus as decreed real or proposed?
Temperature and how measured: how is the temperature measured and how accurate?
Climate History: the climate history and what is learned from this, and how does nature and CO2 participate?
AGW science or theories: a comparative look at AGW theories versus observation or other lessons learned in this site.
Climate Science: how has climate science been shaped, and how can be assessed?
CO2 Science: what is the role or journey of CO2 in our atmosphere and climate?
Modelling of Global Climate: how well have the global climate models been formulated and how well do they perform?
Predictions: based on the models and the IPCC analyses, what are some predictions and how well have they worked?
Data Tampering and Fraud: instances of how data has been tampered with and some instances where fraud has been shown.
IPCC: what are the origins, motives of the IPCC and what can we expect from their advocacy?
Policies: what policies are being pushed and how well might they work?
Paris Accord: a lot has been made of the US pulling out of this accord. How well could the Paris Accord have been expected to preform and what are the impacts?
Conclusions: having done all of this work what can be made of the AGW movement?
We should revisit occasionally what the proper role of government is. As the constitution was a good sense of direction, we need a core set of principles to add in order to deal with the future.
So many want to engineer society, remove risk, assist certain groups, rather than let individuals thrive and raise communities. Why?
Is Democracy where we all "get it good and hard" or is it the best means to a free society?
Should we roll with the special interests, or make the government achieve its proper role, what is that role, and how to do this?
When do deficits and governments become too large?
Government is becoming more elitist while trying to sell corrections to problems it created, what makes this possible?
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Currently as a society, we are having a most difficult time discussing political issues. What is driving this? And why a rebirth in political culture would be a good thing.
Are "markets" dead as some would conjecture? Or is free enterprise what got us here?
At the heart of economics there are several possible economic schools of thought, the essence of these schools of thought and how they relate to our lives.
