Here are some of my favorites.
Don’t believe in man-made Global Warming because it's advocates have no empirical science to back their claim. And their advocacy movement has been mired in scandal since its beginning. Here are some things you should know:
1) The Earth has been both much warmer and much colder in the distant past, long before the industrial age. Climate is indeed changing, but it has always changed and probably always will. These are obviously natural cycles that man does not and cannot control.
2) Global Warming alarmists have been caught in one lie after another. Huge scandals have been continuously revealed since the early 1980’s when the campaign began. Some of these are listed below:
3) Al Gore’s movie "An Inconvenient Truth" was full of bald faced lies. Like the Polar Bears were drowning, or the Ice Caps were melting, or the oceans were rising --- all lies. In fact a court of England ruled the movie was so flawed that it could not be shown to school children without a disclaimer.
4) The ClimateGate affair exposed the utter corruption of the Warmist community with their exposed emails speaking of how they intended to “hide the decline” and how to manipulate data and the peer-review process in their favor.
5) Then there is the fact that the globe isn’t even warming anymore and the small amount of warming experienced from the 1900’s to 2013 timeframe was negligible and well within the envelope of normal.
6) During this same period of marginal warming, scientists also noticed that other planets in our solar system were warming. What do these planets have in common ? --- the Sun.
7) Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit, the Guru and High Priest of Global Warming himself admitted there has been no statistically significant warming. If anyone on the planet would have been aware of statistically significant warming it would have been Phil Jones and he admitted there has been none. (Game Over)
8) Warmists like Al Gore refuse to engage in any formal debate on the issue. That’s because on the few occasions Warmist have debated openly, they lose, and they lose big. Lord Monckton utterly destroys them time and time again.
9) Al Gore and other Warmists have stated clearly that they want to make CO2 the object of a global tax. CO2 is the perfect object for their revenue purposes because you literally cannot live without making CO2, after all, we exhale it. And current science has shown clearly that there is no correlation between the planet’s mean temperature and the concentration of CO2 in the air. Demonizing CO2 is all about the tax dollars, and that’s all its about.
See the scam for what it is and don’t believe any of it.
Polar Bears are doing fine:
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/190805/2...
Phil Jones admits NO statistically significant warming
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/1...
35 major errors in Al Gore’s movie
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckt...
Court rules Al Gore’s movie unfit without disclaimer (11 major errors reviewed)
http://creation.com/al-gores-inconvenien...
Graphs showing that CO2 does NOT drive Temperature
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/...
Warming on Mars -- and Jupiter, Pluto, Neptune
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?ne...
Lord Monckton destroys Warmist in debate (Video)
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andre...
For the full story on the man-made Global Warming scam watch these:
The Great Global Warming Swindle
Roy Snider has stated he believes the warming was caused by random cloud behavior and that more heat is escaping the atmosphere than other climatologists believe.
Richard Lindzen believes AGW is real but cirrus clouds will behave as a negative feedback and stop the atmosphere from warming much.
Others have claimed warming is due to sun spots (though the solar scientists who actually study the sun don't say this). Others have claimed the earth passed through a patch of gamm rays. Others, specifically non-scientists claim that CO2 and methane do not cause the atmosphere to retain heat. Others claim without support that the atmosphere has sometime in the past warmed as rapidly as this century. Other claim that the environment is not warming and sea levels are not rising. Others claim the environment is warming due to explained magic natural cycles ("we're coming out of an ice age").
It is a mish-mash of contradictory beliefs. You'll see people grapping any thing they hear as long as it is different from what all climatologists believe and all research shows. Mostly they just attack scientists as being in a big Marxist conspiracy. There is no alternative theory to the mainstream that has a large following.
Among people who actually study climate there is wide agreement that AGW is very real. There is some debate about the rates and effects, and the certainty of future effects. But generally the term climate change skeptics applies to people who do study climate and do not fully understand the depth of research already conducted.
"What are some arguments the climate change spectics make?(against human-caused climate change)"
They think it is a liberal plot by Al Gore to raise your taxes and set up a One World government.
The website Skeptical Science lists 174 arguments that have been used by the skeptics. The site then puts forward its counter-argument. Whilst the site is generally very good, it is one sided and can give the impression that there is less uncertainty to climate science than there actually is:
http://skepticalscience.com/argument.php
Having been involved with climate science myself for the past 30 years I have come across some truly weird and wonderful counter-arguments from the skeptic community, as well as the occasional well considered argument. To date I haven’t seen any evidence that undermines the science of global warming and similarly, despite the numerous claims from the skeptics, there is nothing that they have suggested that does not already have a perfectly rational explanation.
One thing worth bearing in mind, the fossil fuel industry poured vast amounts of money into a propaganda campaign aimed at discrediting the science of global warming. Of the supposed ‘scientific papers’ that go against the accepted theory, the authors of no less than 90% of these papers have links to ExxonMobil. Despite the fact that in 2007 (I think) the Vice Chairman of Exxon admitted they had funded these fraudulent reports, they still widely circulate on the internet and are often quoted by skeptics who seem unaware that they are bogus.
I’d be very surprised indeed if you received any responses from the skeptics that have genuine merit to them, even if they themselves are convinced they’re valid (the Dunning-Kruger Effect).
That is a trivial subject. Climate change can be as simple as spraying someone with a water hose.
What most people mean by climate change is "Global warming theory has been discredited, but we can't let it go, so we'll rename it and keep on keeping on!"
CO2 warming effect logarithmically diminishes with concentration.
The effect of CO2 is miniscule compared to natural forces.
The Earth's temperature has not risen for the last 15yrs but CO2 continues to rise.
It is not possible to have worldwide agreement on CO2 restrictions, giving unfair advantage to those countries who wont agree.
CO2 is essential to life, and is increasing plant biomass and food crops (greening our planet)
By restricting cheap energy sources, you are forcing third world populations to carry-on cutting down trees and burning them as firewood (harming the environment)
The now 15-year-long "pause" in "global warming" that the alarmists can't explain is the big one. The pause goes completely against AGW computer model "predictions".
What are some arguments the climate change spectics make?(against human-caused climate change)
