Global Warming - Hoax Or Reality?

As world leaders prepare to meet in Copenhagenthey say studies of tree rings and statistical
for the December 2009 United Nations Climateanalyses of decades of temperature data taken
Change Conference, a controversy has arisenfrom around the world provide scientific proof of
over the release of hacked information from theAGW. Most proponents of AGW considered it
University of East Anglia's Climate Reaearch Unitsettled science beyond any further debate.
(CRU). The CRU is considered the foremostMost opponents of AGW accept that changes to
climate change research center in the world, andthe world's climate are real, but they do not
its research has been cited as definitive proof ofautomatically accept the theory that global
human-caused global warming. However, thewarming is human-caused. They contend that
e-mails hacked from the CRU server appear toclimate has continually changed throughout the
show proponents of anthropogenic global warmingearth's history, regardless of what humans do,
(AGW) manipulating data and trying to censor theand they believe that climate is too complex to
work of climate researchers whose work doesbe predicted with current technology. They
not support AGW. The CRU "Climategate"believe that continued research is necessary
controversy has reignited a debate aboutbefore AGW can be considered settled science.
whether global warming is a hoax or real science.Others believe global warming is a complete hoax
Proponents of AGW believe it is the single mostand point to Climategate as proof. They believe
dangerous problem facing the world. They pointthat global warming is a trojan horse to force the
to visible changes to many parts of the world'simplementation of radical, anti-business
climate, such as melting glaciers and breaking iceenvironmental policies.
shelfs, as empirical proof of AGW. Furthermore,