New Scientist has assembled a marvelous list of 26 of the most-cited objections to the scientific consensus on climate change. Temperatures rise before carbon dioxide; polar bear population is increasing; there is no consensus; it's all there. This handy-dandy resource -- the answers include source materials -- should be bookmarked. Here's the complete list:
⢠Human CO2 emissions are too tiny to matter
⢠We can't do anything about climate change
⢠The 'hockey stick' graph has been proven wrong
⢠Chaotic systems are not predictable
⢠We can't trust computer models of climate
⢠They predicted global cooling in the 1970s
⢠It's been far warmer in the past, what's the big deal?
⢠It's too cold where I live - warming will be great
⢠Global warming is down to the Sun, not humans
⢠It's all down to cosmic rays
⢠CO2 isn't the most important greenhouse gas
⢠The lower atmosphere is cooling, not warming
⢠Antarctica is getting cooler, not warmer, disproving global warming
⢠The oceans are cooling
⢠The cooling after 1940 shows CO2 does not cause warming
⢠It was warmer during the Medieval period, with vineyards in England
⢠We are simply recovering from the Little Ice Age
⢠Warming will cause an ice age in Europe
⢠Ice cores show CO2 increases lag behind temperature rises, disproving the link to global warming
⢠Ice cores show CO2 rising as temperatures fell
⢠Mars and Pluto are warming too
⢠Many leading scientists question climate change
⢠It's all a conspiracy
⢠Hurricane Katrina was caused by global warming
⢠Higher CO2 levels will boost plant growth and food production
⢠Polar bear numbers are increasing
And again, the answers are here.
Another good site is here:
http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics
This one kind of throws a wrench in their works. They can't claim that the website isn't scientific since it is called new scientist. Not to mention it might actually educate us all.