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March 26, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
Scientists can't even predict the weather next week, so why should we believe what some climate model tells us about 100 years from now?
Answer…
March 26, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
Climate is an inherently chaotic system, and as such it can not be predicted.
Answer:
Firstly, let's make sure we define climate. Climate is…
March 26, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
According to the IPCC, 150 billion tonnes of carbon go into the atmosphere from natural processes every year. This is almost 30 times the amount…
March 25, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
It's clear from the ice cores and other geological history that CO2 fluctuates naturally. It is a bogus assumption that the rise happening today…
March 25, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
Natural variability is the null hypothesis and an anthropogenic CO2 warming effect needs compelling evidence before there is any reason to take…
March 25, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
Global Warming has been going on for the last 20,000 years.
Answer:
It is quite true that 20Kyr ago the temperature was some 8 to 10oC colder…
March 25, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
Newfoundland was so warm in the Medieval Warm Period that when the Vikings landed they called it Vineland and brought boatloads of grapes back to…
March 25, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
Greenland used to be a lovely hospitable island when the Vikings settled it. It was not until the Little Ice Age that it got so cold they…
March 25, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
If you look back over the last 600 million years you see that there really is not much correlation between temperatures and CO2 levels. Clearly…
March 25, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
There was global cooling in the 40's, 50's and 60's even while human Greenhouse gas emissions were rising. Clearly, temperature is not being…
March 25, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
Sure, Oreskes found no one bucking the consensus, but her paper was overturned by Benny Peiser who did the exact same study and found very…
March 25, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
The Hockey Stick graph, the foundation of global warming theory, has been refuted and shown to be scientifically invalid, perhaps even a fraud.…
March 25, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
CO2 levels are recorded on top of Mauna Loa...a VOLCANO!! No wonder the levels are so high.
Answer:
Yes, it's true, Mauna Loa is an active…
March 25, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
Satellite readings, which are much more accurate, show that the earth is in fact cooling.
Some very old news here, that's all. I wonder how long…
February 27, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
The kind of drastic actions required to mitigate Global Warming will risk the destruction of the global economy and the deaths of potentially…
February 27, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
Why should the US join Kyoto while India and China haven't?
Answer:
The United States puts out more CO2 as a nation by far than any other nation…
February 27, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
The Kyoto treaty, even if fully implemented, would only save us about a tenth of a degree of future temperature rise many decades from now. What…
February 27, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
The Earth has had much warmer climates in the past, what is so special about the current climate? It seems like a generally warmer world will be…
February 27, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
The alarmists were predicting the onset of an Ice Age in the 70's, now it's too much warming! Why should we believe them?
Answer:
It is true…
February 25, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
One good volcanic eruption puts out more CO2 than a decade of human emissions. It is ridiculous to think reducing human CO2 will have any effect…
February 25, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
Climate scientists never talk about water vapor, which is the strongest greenhouse gas, because it undermines their CO2 theory.
Answer:
There is…
February 25, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
The current warming is just part of a natural cycle.
Answer:
While it is undoubtably true that there are some cycles and natural variations in…
February 25, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
It was just as warm in the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) as today, in fact Greenland was green and they were growing grapes in England.
Answer:…
February 25, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
It was even warmer than today during the Holocene Climatic Optimum without any human influence.
Answer:
Actually, it turns out that though there…
February 25, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
The CO2 concentration lags behind temperature by centuries in the glacial-interglacial cycles, so clearly CO2 does not cause temperatures to rise…
February 25, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
Global warming is happening on Mars and Pluto as well. Since there are no SUV's on Mars, CO2 can't be causing Global Warming.
Answer:
Warming on…
February 25, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
Correlation is not proof of causation. There is simply no proof that CO2 is the cause of the current warming.
Answer:
There is no "proof" in…
February 25, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
Global Warming is just a hoax perpetrated by environmental extremists and liberals who want an excuse for more big government.
Answer:
Here is a…
February 25, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
Climate is complicated and there are lots of competing theories and unsolved mysteries. Until this is all worked out one can't claim there is…
February 25, 2006
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
The apparent rise of global average temperatures is actually an illusion due to the urbanization of land around weather stations, the Urban Heat…