Actually, the IPCC is an excellent place to start reading, as long as you don't stop thinking after visiting the link you provided.
First, shame on you for making it seem as if the US Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works refutes the concept of man-made global warming. The Committee does not. The link you provided leads to an artical written by a partisan Blogger named Mark Morano, and was paid for by Senator Inhofe's office. Senator Inhofe is famed for his assertion (before the IPCC report came out, and before much of the current trending and data was known) that global warming was the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." Obviously, Inhofe has a clear bias, not the US Senate Committee.
Second, Senator Inhofe's list of dissenting "scientists" is the real joke. I put the word scientists in quotes because many of those presented in Inhofe's list are not legitimate climate scientists. Some are economists, and many are TV weathermen, one of which concludes that global warming MUST be a myth because God wouldn't allow global warming to happen! A much larger group have no background in climate science at all, and another, separate, large percentage are finacially dependant on fossil fuel companies, or think-tanks associated with those same companies. Here's a link that busts open Inhofe's original 400 dissenting "scientists":
http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/inhofe-global-warming-deniers-47011101
But the worst example of the kind of dissent Inhofe presents are the handful of experts who claim they were quoted out of context, and actually DO support the conclusion of the IPCC, as well as one expert who says he was outright tricked into signing the letter of dissent.
Really, if that's the peg on which you want to rest your hat, you're welcome to it.
For those interested in a true scientific perspective, from true climate experts, should refer themselves to the 50,000 member American Geophysical Union (http://www.agu.org/) and their opinion on whether man made global warming is a reality, or a myth:
“Many components of the climate system - including the temperatures of the atmosphere, land and ocean, the extent of sea ice and mountain glaciers, the sea level, the distribution of precipitation, and the length of seasons - are now changing at rates and in patterns that are not natural and are best explained [by the increase in greenhouse gas emissions] generated by human activity during the 20th Century.”
http://www.aip.org/fyi/2008/014.html
It's not enough to read. You have to research a bit.
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