About us

The purpose of this website is to provide some of the material commissioned by the authors from the scientific community as background material to our book, Poles Apart.

Neither the references in the book nor the following list of papers is a comprehensive list of the sources used and there has been substantial direct input from the scientists on both of the debate to us in the form of memos, letters, short papers and direct discussion. We are very grateful to all those involved who have helped us along our path to reach an informed jurist's view of the case for and against anthropogenic climate change.

We hope the following provides those readers of the book keen to understand more about how we reached the conclusion we did, valuable insights into how the scientists go about discussing and critiquing each other's work. The alarmist case is pretty well documented and widely published. The sceptic case is not quite as well packaged and is a lot more fragmented, being confined in large part to the blogosphere on well compiled sites such as www.climateaudit.org and spread across a range of publications some mainstream and some a little more fringe.

So our approach to procuring a full, expert sceptic perspective was to identify a couple of the seminal papers by the scientists and have those critiqued by alarmist peers as well as facilitate rights-of-reply. We found that process very illuminating for us and those exchanges are in the links below.

Seminal Papers from a Sceptics Perspective