ABSTRACT
The issue of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW)1 should be purely scientific and the questions clear: can we detect warming, and to what can it be attributed? However, because AGW has considerable implications for governmental, economic, social and environmental policies, arguments against AGW have been developed based largely on politics and ideology rather than science. In this chapter, I outline the elements of climate science generally accepted by informed scientists with a high level of certainty, and I then discuss where some of the remaining uncertainties exist. By doing this, I aim to shed some light on some of the complexities in climate science and on the potential risks that we face.
