Question on funding for Climate Change scientists' research?

Oh god 1000 words is too short. Depending on what level of schooling you are at, you could discuss methane emissions from livestock (easy to understand) or the observed emission frequencies which indicate that CO2 is driving the warming (complex). I would go with the latter as it gives a "cause and effect" style argument, whereas the methane emissions must assume that there is a problem without outlining evidence of why methane is a problem.

Try these sites and sources for info: http://www.skepticalscience.com recent data on livestock related methane emissions: UNEP (2010). Priority products and materials: Assessing the environmental impacts of consumption and production. http://www.rona.unep.org/documents/partn... Info on emission frequencies and how greenhouse gasses absorb and re-emit energy (very good background info for understanding the process): http://forecast.uchicago.edu/archer.ch4.... Scientific research articles on emission frequencies observed in lower atmosphere and by satellites in outer atmosphere (you will need to use your university library to access the full reports, here are the abstracts): Philipona et al.

, (2004). Radiative forcing - measured at Earth's surface - corroborate the increasing greenhouse effect, Geophys. Res.

Lett. , 31, L03202. http://www.agu.org/journals/ABS/2004/2003GL018765.shtml Wang and Liang (2009), Global atmospheric downward longwave radiation over land surface under all-sky conditions from 1973 to 2008, J.

Geophys. Res. , 114, D19101.

http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2009JD011800.shtml Harries et al. (2001). Increases in greenhouse forcing inferred from the outgoing longwave radiation spectra of the Earth in 1970 and 1997.

Nature 410, 355-357. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v410/n6826/abs/410355a0.html Griggs and Harries, (2004). Comparison of spectrally resolved outgoing longwave data between 1970 and present.

Proc. SPIE 5543, 164. http://spiedigitallibrary.org/proceedings/resource/2/psisdg/5543/1/164_1?isAuthorized=no These two are papers in full but these were conference presentations and haven't been peer reviewed.

Sorry I don't know of any peer reviewed papers that are available to view without a subscription: http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/100737.pdf.

The Climate Change Research(CCR) section makes extensive use of state-of-the-art coupled climate system models to study the sensitivity and stability of the Earth system to a variety of forcings, including changes of greenhouse gases, aerosols, solar irradiance, volcanic forcing, land characteristics, and land use change. CCR is a focal point for NCAR and university paleoclimate research and serves as a resource to the paleoclimatic and climate change research community in the use of the Community Climate System Model (CCSM). CCR scientists collaborate closely with major U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories in developing and using high-performance coupled climate models to address national climate research and policy questions.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.