I am still looking into this one, but from what I have seen, there is very little debate in the scientific community anymore. It surely is not a 'hotly debated' issue. I tend to go to them for direction, and it is very difficult to find the people who say that GW may be false. When my wife was in school (one of her majors was biology), there was still a lot of debate and skepticism, but now it is very well paid lobbying interests that will fund media campaigns and pay off people with credentials to muddy the waters because a lot of people will lose money if we stop buying gas. The big scientist that first went public to congress against global warming was the head of a major science journal. He was fired when he testified that cigarette smoke was not linked to cancer (this was late 90s early 00s). He went on to say he had evidence against global warming, but hid his study from the scientific community (usually studies are published in peer reviewed journals so other scientists can duplicate them, thus confirming the findings). Nonetheless, every conservative talk radio and news show put him up there as their evidence that the scientific community still debates this issue. The people are being duped, and I fear it is my son who is going to bear the brunt of this.

But like I said, this study is a new one, so, for now, I will stay focused on just this one.