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1. Sheldon Ungar (2000) – Knowledge, ignorance and the popular culture: climate change versus the ozone hole – Public Understanding of Science 9:297–312 – Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto at Scarborough- Peer reviewed
   “The signal advantage of the ozone hole is that it can be encapsulated in a simple and widely familiar “penetration” metaphor. Stated succinctly, the hole leads to increased bombardment of the earth by lethal rays. The idea of rays penetrating a damaged ’shield’ meshes nicely with abiding and resonant cultural motifs, including Hollywood ‘affinities’, ranging from the Starship Enterprise to Star Wars.”
2. Michael E. Mann, Raymond S. Bradley & Malcolm K. Hughes (1998) – Global-scale temperature patterns and climate forcing over the past six centuries – Nature 392:779–787 – 23/04/1998 – Peer reviewed
   “Spatially resolved global reconstructions of annual surface temperature patterns over the past six centuries are based on the multivariate calibration of widely distributed high-resolution proxy climate indicators … Northern Hemisphere mean annual temperatures for three of the past eight years are warmer than any other year since (at least) AD 1400.”
3. Michael E. Mann, Raymond S. Bradley & Malcolm K. Hughes (2004) – (Corrigendum) Global-scale temperature patterns and climate forcing over the past six centuries – Nature 430:105 – 01/07/2004 – Peer reviewed
   “We provide a list of the records that were either mistakenly included in the Supplementary Information, or mistakenly left out … The full, corrected listing of the data is supplied as Supplementary Information to this corrigendum.”
4. Eugene R.Wahl · Caspar M. Ammann (2007) – Robustness of the Mann, Bradley, Hughes reconstruction of Northern Hemisphere surface temperatures: Examination of criticisms based on the nature and processing of proxy climate evidence – Climatic Change 85:33–69  doi: 10.1007/s10584-006-9105-7 – Peer reviewedhttp://www.cgd.ucar.edu/ccr/ammann/millennium/refs/Wahl_ClimChange2007.pdf
   “The Mann et al. (1998) Northern Hemisphere annual temperature reconstruction over 1400–1980 is examined in light of recent criticisms concerning the nature and processing of included climate proxy data … Our examination does suggest that a slight modification to the original Mann et al. reconstruction is justifiable for the first half of the 15th century (∼+0.05–0.10◦), which leaves entirely unaltered the primary conclusion of Mann et al. (as well as many other reconstructions) that both the 20th century upward trend and high late-20th century hemispheric surface temperatures are anomalous.
5. Zorita, E., F. González-Rouco, and S. Legutke (2003) – Testing the Mann et al. (1998) approach to paleoclimate reconstructions in the context of a 1000-yr control simulation with the ECHO-G coupled climate model – Journal of Climate 16:1378–1390 – Peer reviewed
6. Steven C. Sherwood (2008) – Climate Change: A Titanic Challenge – Science 319:900 – 15/02/2008 – Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University – Peer reviewed
   “The multidecadal time lags in the climate system, infrastructure, and political sphere do not by themselves compel action now rather than, say, 5 years from now. Greater urgency comes from the rapid growth rate (especially in the developing world) of the very infrastructure that is so problematic. Mitigating climate change is often compared to turning the Titanic away from an iceberg. But this “Titanic” is getting bigger and less maneuverable as we wait—and that causes prospects to deteriorate nonlinearly, and on a time scale potentially much shorter than the time scale on which the system itself responds.”
7. V. Ramanathan and Y. Feng (2008) – On avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system: Formidable challenges ahead – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PNAS 105:14245-14250 – 23/11/2008 – Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego – Peer reviewed
   “Greenhouse gases (GHGs) act like the blanket that keeps us (the planet) warm on a cold night by trapping the body heat (the heat radiation from the planet). This heat (heat radiation) would have otherwise escaped to the surrounding room (outer space). The build-up of GHGs caused by human activities has thickened this blanket by ~2%.»
8. Bert Bolin (2007) – The History of Science and Politics of Climate Change. The Role of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change – Cambridge University Press – ISBN: 978-0-521-88082-4 – 277 pp – p. 5
   “The analogy of the hotbed (or, as we say today, greenhouse) is deficient in one important way. The glass has an additional function in a greenhouse in that it prevents the hot air beneath it escaping. The atmosphere, on the other hand, is often mixed by convective currents, whereby heat is transferred to higher levels, from where radiation to space takes place. The term greenhouse effect has, however, come to stay, since it describes an important mechanism simply, though not perfectly.”
9. Dan Kammen – Climate scientists debate with prime minister – Copenhagen Climate Congress 10-12/03/2009 – Environmental Research Web 19/05/2009 – http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/opinion/39126
   “I could not honestly go and tell the public that two degrees warming is safe. We’re already seeing a lot of impacts of the 0.7 degrees warming that we’ve had so far. So I consider two degrees not safe, and John Schellnhuber this morning asked about the question ‘Is Russian roulette dangerous?’ and in Russian roulette you have a one in six chance of something terrible happening, I think that when we go to two degrees we probably have more than a one in six chance of really bad impacts occurring … two degrees is really an upper limit, and it’s not something that, you know, we aim for two degrees but it’s OK if we end up at three. That was my key message … when you try to come to some number like two degrees, that’s a judgment that uses science, but it’s not for scientists to give you that number. It’s a risk game, and how much risk society wants to take.
10. Liz Minchin – Scientist’s ‘Russian roulette’ climate warning – The Age, 29/01/2007 – http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/scientists-russian-roulette-climate-warning/2007/01/28/1169919213561.html
    “The world is «playing Russian roulette» with its future by responding too slowly to climate change, a leading American scientist [Stephen Schneider] has warned ahead of the release of a major international report this week”
11. Gavin Schmidt, David Archer (2009) – Too much of a bad thing – Nature, 458:1117-1118 – 30/04/2009 –  Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago – http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7242/full/4581117a.html – Peer reviewed
    “There are various — and confusing — targets to limit global warming due to emissions of greenhouse gases. Estimates based on the total slug of carbon emitted are possibly the most robust, and are worrisome”
12. Richard Monastersky – The Climate Crunch. A burden beyond bearing – Nature 458:1091-1094 – http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090429/full/4581091a.html – 30/04/2009 – Peer reviewed
    ”The climate situation may be even worse than you think (…) evidence that keeping carbon dioxide beneath dangerous levels is tougher than previously thought … The world would have to limit emissions of all greenhouse gases to the equivalent of 400 GT of carbon to stand a 75% chance of avoiding more than 2 ºC of warming … The world would have to limit emissions of all greenhouse gases to the equivalent of 400 GT of carbon to stand a 75% chance of avoiding more than 2 ºC of warming.”.
    
13. James Lovelock (2009) – The Vanishing Face of Gaia. A Final Warning – Allen Lane, Penguin Books – 178 pp – ISBN 978-1-846-14185-0 – Pág. 151
14. Jennifer Shah – Public Forum Letter, Salt Lake City Tribune – 29/10/2009 – http://climatechangepsychology.blogspot.com/2009/10/warming-and-science-public-forum-letter.html
    “If 97 out of 100 cardiologists told Reps. Lorie Fowlke, R-Orem; Christopher Herrod, R-Provo; and Michael Noel, R-Kanab, that they needed heart-bypass surgeries but the other three cardiologists said their conditions could be managed with diet and lifestyle changes, would they take their chances on the opinion of the minority dissenters?”
15. Richard Sommerville – http://richardsomerville.com/
    “Richard Somerville is a climate scientist and the author of The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change, a new edition of which was published in 2008 by the American Meteorological Society. ‘Perhaps the most important function of climate science on an issue of broad interest like global warming is to help educate the public and to provide useful input into the policy process’.”
16. Richard C. J. Somerville – Medical Metaphors for Climate Issues – Climatic Change (2006) 76: 1–6 – Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
    “At your annual check up, if you’re sensible, when the doctor tells you to lose weight and exercise more, you don’t argue. You don’t insult your doctor by complaining that medical science is imperfect and can’t yet prevent cancer or cure AIDS. You don’t label your doctor a radical alarmist. You know, and your doctor knows, that medical science, while inevitably incomplete, is still good enough to provide advice well worth following.”
17. Richard C. J. Somerville (2006) – Medical Metaphors for Climate Issues. An Editorial Essay – Climatic Change 76: 1–6 – Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
    “Like many climate scientists, I have an aversion to the catchy term “global warming” although I realize it’s in the language to stay. It’s an oversimplification. Climate is far more than just temperature. Climate is a rich tapestry of interlinked phenomena, multi-faceted and inherently complex. The most important aspects of climate change are local, not global, and are not confined to warming. Global warming is just a symptom of planetary ill health, like a fever. You and your physician both know that fever is important but is not the whole story.”
18. James Lovelock – The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years – The Independent 16/01/2006 – http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/james-lovelock-the-earth-is-about-to-catch-a-morbid-fever-that-may-last-as-long-as-100000-years-523161.html
    “This article is the most difficult I have written and for the same reasons. My Gaia theory sees the Earth behaving as if it were alive, and clearly anything alive can enjoy good health, or suffer disease. Gaia has made me a planetary physician and I take my profession seriously, and now I, too, have to bring bad news.”
19. Gea – Wikipedia – http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia
    “La Teogonía de Hesíodo cuenta[1] cómo, tras el Caos, surgió Gea la de anchos pechos, la eterna fundación de los dioses del Olimpo. De su propio ser, «sin la dulce unión del amor», trajo a Urano, el cielo estrellado, su igual, para cubrirla a ella y a las colinas, y también a Ponto, la infructuosa profundidad del mar. Pero tras esto, cuenta Hesíodo, yació con su hijo Urano y engendró a los Titanes Océano, Ceo, Crío, Hiperión y Jápeto, y a las Titánides Tea, Rea, Temis, Mnemósine, Febe la de la dorada corona y la hermosa Tetis. «Tras ellos nació Crono el astuto, el más joven y terrible de sus hijos, y éste odió a su lujurioso padre.»”
20. James Lovelock – The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years – The Independent 16/01/2006 – http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/james-lovelock-the-earth-is-about-to-catch-a-morbid-fever-that-may-last-as-long-as-100000-years-523161.html
    “The climate centres around the world, which are the equivalent of the pathology lab of a hospital, have reported the Earth’s physical condition, and the climate specialists see it as seriously ill, and soon to pass into a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years.”
21. James Lovelock (1988, 1995) – The ages of Gaia: a biography of our living Earth – Oxford University Press – ISBN: 0-19-286-217-0
22. James Lovelock – The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years – The Independent 16/01/2006 – http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/james-lovelock-the-earth-is-about-to-catch-a-morbid-fever-that-may-last-as-long-as-100000-years-523161.html
    “I have to tell you, as members of the Earth’s family and an intimate part of it, that you and especially civilisation are in grave danger.”
23. James Lovelock – The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years – The Independent 16/01/2006 – Independent environmental scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society – http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/james-lovelock-the-earth-is-about-to-catch-a-morbid-fever-that-may-last-as-long-as-100000-years-523161.html
    “We should be the heart and mind of the Earth, not its malady. So let us be brave and cease thinking of human needs and rights alone, and see that we have harmed the living Earth and need to make our peace with Gaia. We must do it while we are still strong enough to negotiate, and not a broken rabble led by brutal war lords. Most of all, we should remember that we are a part of it, and it is indeed our home.”

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