Thanks for the response. I found this useful.
Timothy Ball is no wishy-washy skeptic of global warming. The Canadian climatologist, who has a Ph.D. in climatology from the University of London and taught at the University of Winnipeg for 28 years, says that the widely propagated fact that humans are contributing to global warming is the greatest deception in the history of science.
Ball has made no friends among global warming alarmists by saying that global warming is caused by the sun, that global warming will be good for us and that the Kyoto Protocol is a political solution to a nonexistent problem without scientific justification."
Needless to say, Ball strongly disagrees with the findings of the latest report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which on Feb. 2 concluded that it is very likely that global warming is the result of human activity...
The mainstream media would have us believe that the science of global warming is now settled by the latest IPCC report. Is it true?
Timothy Ball: No. Its absolutely false. As soon as people start saying somethings settled, its usually that they dont want to talk about it anymore. They dont want anybody to dig any deeper. Its very, very far from settled. In fact, thats the real problem. We havent been able to get all of the facts on the table. The IPCC is a purely political setup.
Why should we be leery of the IPCCs report -- or the summary of the report?
Ball: Well, because the report is the end product of a political agenda, and it is the political agenda of both the extreme environmentalists who of course think we are destroying the world. But its also the political agenda of a group of people ... who believe that industrialization and development and capitalism and the Western way is a terrible system and they want to bring it down.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19409