Scientific Debate: How significant is the impact of CO2 on global temperature? by rthanlon

The debate on climate change is already very deep and broad.

The debate inevitably strays into the political arena.  An enormous volume of material has already been published, although much of it is in copyrighted publications and so is not freely available on the Internet (eg, http://thebulletin.org/2011/januaryfebruary/global-warming-how-skepticism-became-denial or the epilogue in the book "Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate" by William Ruddiman).

Having said that, I believe that Wikipedia could be used as a venue through which anyone would be able to contribute to the discussion/debate, the output of which would be freely available on the Internet.  If enough people got interested, helping Wikipedia staff with dispute resolution (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution) would be mandatory.  That is an area where MIT and its alumni could contribute great value individually and collectively.

And open courseware to guide individuals through the debate(s) (see https://www.climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/1303301/phaseId/1312704/planId/1326102) would be essential if one wants to influence the opinions of a significant percentage of the voters in the United States and across the world.  I hope you will vote to support that proposal.