Global warming skeptics often cite contradictory reports from a generation ago warning of global cooling.
Not exact matches
Given that
skeptics, taken as a whole, put forward a nearly infinite variety of
often conflicting and contradictory beliefs regarding
global warming and climate science, exactly what is a climate scientist supposed to agree with?
It has been
often said by climate
skeptics that the modern
warming peaked in 1998 and we are entering a period of decades of
global cooling.
Many
skeptics contend that liberal environmental agendas are behind alarming
global -
warming headlines, though
often skeptics bring policy agendas of their own.
This statement is
often used as a litmus test for belief regarding
global warming, i.e. you believe this statement (consensus) or you don't (
skeptic).
Now, since 2007, at the height of the
global warming scare tactics about arctic sea ice, the antarctic sea ice extents anomaly CONTINUOUSLY exceeds 1.25 Mkm ^ 2 for 3 years straight now, and is larger than 1.5 Mkm ^ 2 so
often for such long times that it is not even newsworthy on a
skeptic site.
People who challenge the claims of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are
often labeled «
global warming skeptics».
As Figure 1 shows, over the last 37 years one can identify overlapping short windows of time when climate «
skeptics» could have argued (and
often did, i.e. here and here and here) that
global warming had stopped.
The claim is
often made that climate realists (a.k.a.
skeptics) can not point to peer - reviewed papers to support their position that there is no evidence of «dangerous
global warming:» caused by human emissions of so - called «greenhouse» gases, including carbon dioxide.
The two make a range of
often - repeated claims by climate change
skeptics, including that there have been «no increase in frequency or intensity of storms, floods or droughts,» that sea ice isn't melting considerably, and that there is supposedly no scientific consensus regarding
global warming.
Weakening Solar Output Won't Slow
Warming Over Next Century One argument often cited by climate skeptics and global warming deniers is that solar cycles are responsible for at least part of the warming we're seei
Warming Over Next Century One argument
often cited by climate
skeptics and
global warming deniers is that solar cycles are responsible for at least part of the warming we're seei
warming deniers is that solar cycles are responsible for at least part of the
warming we're seei
warming we're seeing now.
Their paper notes, in spite of the fact that «the scientific consensus on
global warming and climate change is remarkable,» journalists — especially on television —
often treat it as «an unsettled controversy,» giving equal time to climatologists and
skeptics.