Climate Change: Uncertain science, certain controversy
Ever since the Nobel Peace Prize was conferred on Al Gore and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007, there has been widespread acceptance of the fact that we are in the midst of rapidly changing weather patterns. The connection between rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels and global warming is
now common knowledge. No area of science has captured the public imagination as quickly as the science of climate. CO2 and methane, once limited to classes in chemistry, are now familiar substances, always in the public eye as discussions on