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Levels of Sophistication

1. Silly
   • There is no evidence
   • Global warming is a hoax
   • One record year is not global warming
   • Climate change mitigation would lead to disaster
   • Mars and Pluto are warming too
   • Mauna Loa is a volcano
2. Naive
   • One hundred years is not enough
   • Glaciers have always grown and receded
   • Why should the U.S. join Kyoto when China and India haven't?
   • It's cold today in Wagga Wagga
   • CO2 in the air comes mostly from volcanoes
   • We can't even predict the weather next week
   • We can not trust unproven computer models
   • The satellites show cooling
   • Natural emissions dwarf human emissions
   • The models don't have clouds
   • Global warming stopped in 1998
   • It's the sun, stupid
   • If we can't understand the past, how can we understand the present?
   • The scientists aren't even sure
   • Vineland was full of grapes
   • Some sites show cooling
3. Specious
   • The temperature record is simply unreliable
   • Climate scientists dodge the subject of water vapor
   • There is no proof that CO2 is causing global warming
   • Current global warming is just part of a natural cycle
   • It was warmer during the Holocene Climatic Optimum
   • The medieval warm period was just as warm as today
   • What's wrong with warmer weather?
   • Kyoto is a big effort for almost nothing
   • CO2 doesn't lead, it lags
   • There is no consensus
   • Antarctic ice is growing
   • Warming is due to the Urban Heat Island effect
   • Greenland used to be green
   • What about mid-century cooling?
   • The null hypothesis says global warming is natural
   • Geological history does not support CO2's importance
   • Climate is always changing
   • Global warming is nothing new!
   • The CO2 rise is natural
   • Historically, CO2 never caused temperature change
   • Hansen has been wrong before
   • Position statements hide debate
   • But the glaciers are not melting
   • If aerosols are blocking the sun, the south should warm faster
   • Antarctic sea ice is increasing
   • Consensus is collusion
   • They predicted global cooling in the 1970s
   • Peiser refuted Oreskes
   • Vineland was full of grapes
4. Scientific
   • Water vapor accounts for almost all of the greenhouse effect
   • Chaotic systems are not predictable
   • The hockey stick is broken
   • Observations show climate sensitivity is not very high
   • Sea level in the Arctic is falling
   • We are just recovering from the LIA

De man zijn "artikel" moeten we dus plaatsen in de eerste categorie van sceptische bedenkingen.