It seems as if not a day goes by without some media reference to global warming and its impact on "Mother Earth." Finally, the liberals have found a means to achieve their big-government, socialist agenda using an issue few non-scientists understand. And many of the scientists who do understand the issue are in on the scam.

It's always a win-win situation for the likes of former Vice-President Al Gore. If it gets extremely hot in the Summer, it's caused by global warming. If it gets extremely cold in the Winter, it's caused by global warming. In the 1960s and 1970s, an impending Ice Age threatened our delicate planet. This new Ice Age never materialized, but that hasn't stopped many of the same people from predicting a cataclysmic rise in temperature.

So where can Americans go to get at least a fair and balanced view of the issues involving carbon dioxide's impact on global warming? One place is the website of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change.

The Center was created in January of 1998 as a non-profit, public charity dedicated to discovering and disseminating scientific information regarding the effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment on climate and the biosphere. 

Central to the Center's plan of accomplishing this goal has been the implementation of their web site. The web site is updated with a weekly issue of CO2 Science, which contains a new editorial and reviews of five different peer-reviewed scientific journal articles relating to various aspects of the global change debate, all of which are archived in a massive subject index. 

In addition, two new summaries of various subject index topics are produced and posted each week.  Short synopses of newly-posted web site material are also provided via email to those who subscribe to the Center's listserver. 

The Center encourages members of the media to reference the material they produce in order to help present balanced reports to the public.

The Center attempts to separate reality from rhetoric in the emotionally-charged debate that swirls around the subject of carbon dioxide and global change. 

In addition, to help students and teachers gain greater insight into the biological aspects of this phenomenon, the Center maintains on-line instructions on how to conduct CO2 enrichment and depletion experiments in its Global Change Laboratory (located in its Education Center section), which allow interested parties to conduct similar studies in their own homes and classrooms. This is especially attractive for home-schoolers.

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