To be fair, its not so much that people need to look away from the US for information, its more that they need to look away from the mass media.

RealClimate is a US site for example, and you can't get much better information about global warming than you do there...

Well, I didn't exactly say "to look for information", but to "see that there really is no controversy". Even if you are well informed, from inside the US it would seem there is a big argument going on between the proponents and detractors.