This one's dedicated to Lord 1000frolly's YouTube channel. I use Lord frolly because I have reason to think the character behind the YouTube channel is none other than bad old Lord Monckton, the undisputed master of political theater. It's of interest to me, because the channel has been flooding YouTube with stuff that can only be described as a strategic campaign of malicious misinformation with the intent of interfering with We The People's right to honestly learn from what serious scientists (who have spent full time professional careers become expert in aspects of climate) have been learning and trying to explain to us and our leaders.
I'm working on a post looking at a video where he takes on Potholer54 and this was going to be my final section, but it was already too long and I figured this would make a great preamble to my next post. I wanted to include it underscore the fact that these are old stale argument that have been thoroughly examined and dismissed as the evidence has evolved over these past decades.
What I have here is the linked index to SkepticalScience's resource that explains the problems with the whole rainbow of contrarian talking points. Definitely a one stop resource for quick information and important references.
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SkepticalScience.com's
Climate Myths sorted by taxonomy
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- Temp record is unreliable
- Hockey stick is broken
- Dropped stations introduce warming bias
- It's Urban Heat Island effect
- 1934 - hottest year on record
- It's microsite influences
- Satellite error inflated Great Lakes temperatures
- It's cooling
- We're heading into an ice age
- It's freaking cold!
- Oceans are cooling
- It hasn't warmed since 1998
- Phil Jones says no global warming since 1995
- Global warming stopped in 1998, 1995, 2002, 2007, 2010, ????
- DMI show cooling Arctic
- We're heading into cooling
- Ice isn't melting
- Antarctica is gaining ice
- Glaciers are growing
- Greenland is gaining ice
- Arctic icemelt is a natural cycle
- Southern sea ice is increasing
- Climategate CRU emails suggest conspiracy
- Trenberth can't account for the lack of warming
- Scientists tried to 'hide the decline' in global temperature
- Freedom of Information (FOI) requests were ignored
- Peer review process was corrupted
- CRU tampered with temperature data
- Skeptics were kept out of the IPCC?
- Sea level rise is exaggerated
- There is no consensus
- IPCC is alarmist
- IPCC were wrong about Amazon rainforests
- IPCC were wrong about Himalayan glaciers
- IPCC overestimate temperature rise
- IPCC ‘disappeared’ the Medieval Warm Period
- The IPCC consensus is phoney
- IPCC human-caused global warming attribution confidence is unfounded
- IPCC global warming projections were wrong
- Al Gore got it wrong
- Less than half of published scientists endorse global warming
- 500 scientists refute the consensus
- Naomi Oreskes' study on consensus was flawed
- The science isn't settled
- They changed the name from 'global warming' to 'climate change'
- Over 31,000 scientists signed the OISM Petition Project
- Climate 'Skeptics' are like Galileo
- Royal Society embraces skepticism
- 97% consensus on human-caused global warming has been disproven
- Springs aren't advancing
- Melting ice isn't warming the Arctic
- There's no empirical evidence
- Increasing CO2 has little to no effect
- CO2 is just a trace gas
- CO2 has a short residence time
- CO2 effect is saturated
- Greenhouse effect has been falsified
- 2nd law of thermodynamics contradicts greenhouse theory
- Venus doesn't have a runaway greenhouse effect
- CO2 only causes 35% of global warming
- Removing all CO2 would make little difference
- Climate's changed before
- Medieval Warm Period was warmer
- Greenland was green
- We're coming out of the Little Ice Age
- CO2 was higher in the past
- Arctic was warmer in 1940
- It's a 1500 year cycle
- It's a climate regime shift
- It's a natural cycle
- It warmed just as fast in 1860-1880 and 1910-1940
- Heatwaves have happened before
- There's no correlation between CO2 and temperature
- It cooled mid-century
- CO2 lags temperature
- It warmed before 1940 when CO2 was low
- We didn't have global warming during the Industrial Revolution
- Soares finds lack of correlation between CO2 and temperature
- An exponential increase in CO2 will result in a linear increase in temperature
- It's the sun
- It's cosmic rays
- Solar Cycle Length proves its the sun
- The sun is getting hotter
- Water levels correlate with sunspots
- Solar cycles cause global warming
- Other planets are warming
- It's the ocean
- CO2 is not the only driver of climate
- It's soot
- It's aerosols
- It's ozone
- It's methane
- It's land use
- It's albedo
- It's satellite microwave transmissions
- It's waste heat
- It's CFCs
- Water vapor is the most powerful greenhouse gas
- It's global brightening
- Humans are too insignificant to affect global climate
- Human CO2 is a tiny % of CO2 emissions
- CO2 is coming from the ocean
- Volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans
- CO2 emissions do not correlate with CO2 concentration
- Breathing contributes to CO2 buildup
- Murry Salby finds CO2 rise is natural
- CO2 is not increasing
- Models are unreliable
- Climate is chaotic and cannot be predicted
- Ice age predicted in the 70s
- Scientists can't even predict weather
- There's no tropospheric hot spot
- Hansen's 1988 prediction was wrong
- Extreme weather isn't caused by global warming
- Mt. Kilimanjaro's ice loss is due to land use
- Nuclear testing is causing global warming
- Climate sensitivity is low
- Earth hasn't warmed as much as expected
- Lindzen and Choi find low climate sensitivity
- Positive feedback means runaway warming
- Humidity is falling
- Clouds provide negative feedback
- Roy Spencer finds negative feedback
- Animals and plants can adapt
- Greenland ice sheet won't collapse
- CO2 is not a pollutant
- Sea level rise predictions are exaggerated
- Greenland has only lost a tiny fraction of its ice mass
- It's only a few degrees
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