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When talk radio says of climate change, "It’s due to the sun", Science says...
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The sun’s output has barely changed since 1970 and is irrelevant to recent global warming.
( http://sks.to/sun ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Climate’s changed before", Science says...
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Climate reacts to whatever forces it to change at the time, which now is dominated by humans.
( http://sks.to/past ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "There is no consensus", Science says...
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97% of climate experts agree humans are causing global warming.
( http://sks.to/consensus ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Climate is cooling", Science says...
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The last decade 2000-2009 was the hottest on record.
( http://sks.to/cooling ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Climate models are unreliable", Science says...
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Models successfully reproduce temperatures since 1900 globally, by land, in the air and the ocean.
( http://sks.to/model ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "The temperature record is unreliable due to poor siting/Urban Heat Islands", Science says...
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The warming trend is the same in rural and urban areas, measured by thermometers and satellites.
( http://sks.to/temp ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It hasn’t warmed since 1998", Science says...
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2005 was the hottest year globally, and 2009 the second hottest.
( http://sks.to/1998 ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "An ice age was predicted in the 70s", Science says...
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The vast majority of climate papers in the 1970s predicted warming.
( http://sks.to/1970s ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "We’re heading into an ice age", Science says...
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Worry about global warming impacts in the next 100 years, not an ice age in over 10,000 years.
( http://sks.to/iceage ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Antarctica is gaining ice", Science says...
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Satellites measure Antarctica losing land ice at an accelerating rate.
( http://sks.to/antarctica ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "CO2 lags temperature", Science says...
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Recent CO2 increase has caused recent warming without any time lag.
( http://sks.to/lag ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It’s not bad", Science says...
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Negative impacts of global warming on agriculture, health and environment far outweigh any positives.
( http://sks.to/impacts ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Al Gore got it wrong", Science says...
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Al Gore's book is quite accurate, and far more accurate than contrarian books.
( http://sks.to/gore ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It’s cosmic rays", Science says...
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Cosmic rays show no trend over the last 30 years and have had little impact on recent global warming.
( http://sks.to/cosmic ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It’s freaking cold!", Science says...
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A local cold day has nothing to do with the long-term trend of increasing global temperatures.
( http://sks.to/cold ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Hurricanes aren’t linked to global warming", Science says...
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There is increasing evidence that hurricanes are getting stronger due to global warming.
( http://sks.to/hurricane ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "1934 - hottest year on record", Science says...
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1934 was one of the hottest years in the US, not globally.
( http://sks.to/1934 ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Hockey stick is broken", Science says...
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Recent studies agree that recent global temperatures are unprecedented in the last 1000 years.
( http://sks.to/hockey ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Mars is warming", Science says...
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Mars is not warming globally.
( http://sks.to/mars ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It’s Urban Heat Island effect", Science says...
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Urban and rural regions show the same warming trend.
( http://sks.to/uhi ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It’s just a natural cycle", Science says...
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Ancient natural cycles are irrelevant for attributing recent global warming to humans.
( http://sks.to/1500cycle ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Arctic icemelt is a natural cycle", Science says...
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Thick arctic sea ice is undergoing a rapid retreat.
( http://sks.to/arcticcycle ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Sea level rise is exaggerated", Science says...
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A variety of different measurements find steadily rising sea levels over the past century.
( http://sks.to/sealevel ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Water vapor is the most powerful greenhouse gas", Science says...
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Rising CO2 increases atmospheric water vapor, which makes global warming much worse.
( http://sks.to/vapor ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Other planets are warming", Science says...
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Mars and Jupiter are not warming, and anyway the sun has recently been cooling slightly.
( http://sks.to/planets ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Greenland was green", Science says...
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Other parts of the earth got colder when Greenland got warmer.
( http://sks.to/green ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Oceans are cooling", Science says...
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The most recent ocean measurements show consistent warming.
( http://sks.to/oceanheat ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Climategate CRU emails suggest conspiracy", Science says...
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Several investigations have cleared scientists of any wrongdoing in the media-hyped email incident.
( http://sks.to/climategate ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Human CO2 is a tiny % of CO2 emissions", Science says...
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Human-caused CO2 emissions upset the natural balance and are causing global warming.
( http://sks.to/co2 ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Climate sensitivity is low", Science says...
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Net positive feedback is confirmed by many different lines of evidence.
( http://sks.to/sensitivity ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "CO2 effect is weak", Science says...
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The strong CO2 effect has been observed by many different measurements.
( http://sks.to/greenhouse ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "We’re coming out of the Little Ice Age", Science says...
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The sun was warming up then, but the sun hasn’t been warming since 1970.
( http://sks.to/lia ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It cooled mid-century", Science says...
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Mid-century cooling involved aerosols and is irrelevant for recent global warming.
( http://sks.to/midcentury ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Glaciers are growing", Science says...
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Most glaciers are retreating, posing a serious problem for millions who rely on glaciers for water.
( http://sks.to/glacier ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It warmed before 1940 when CO2 was low", Science says...
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Early 20th century warming is due to several causes, including rising CO2.
( http://sks.to/pre1940 ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "There’s no empirical evidence", Science says...
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There are multiple lines of direct observations that humans are causing global warming.
( http://sks.to/empirical ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Polar bear numbers are increasing", Science says...
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Polar bears are in danger of extinction as well as many other species.
( http://sks.to/bear ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Satellites show no warming in the troposphere", Science says...
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The most recent satellite data show that the earth as a whole is warming.
( http://sks.to/troposphere ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Mt. Kilimanjaro’s ice loss is due to land use", Science says...
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Most glaciers are in rapid retreat worldwide, notwithstanding a few complicated cases.
( http://sks.to/kilimanjaro ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "IPCC does not represent a scientific consensus", Science says...
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The IPCC summarizes the recent research by leading scientific experts.
( http://sks.to/ipcc ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Extreme weather isn’t caused by global warming", Science says...
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Extreme weather events are being made worse by global warming.
( http://sks.to/extreme ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "CO2 is not a pollutant", Science says...
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Excess CO2 emissions will lead to hotter conditions that will stress and even kill crops.
( http://sks.to/pollutant ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "There’s no correlation between CO2 and temperature", Science says...
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There is long-term correlation between CO2 and global temperature; other effects are short-term.
( http://sks.to/correlate ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Greenland is gaining ice", Science says...
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Greenland on the whole is losing ice, as confirmed by satellite measurement.
( http://sks.to/greenland ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "CO2 was higher in the past", Science says...
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When CO2 was higher in the past, the sun was cooler.
( http://sks.to/pastco2 ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Scientists can’t even predict weather", Science says...
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Weather and climate are different; climate predictions do not need weather detail.
( http://sks.to/weather ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "There’s no tropospheric hot spot", Science says...
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We see a clear "short-term hot spot" - there’s various evidence for a "long-term hot spot".
( http://sks.to/hotspot ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Neptune is warming", Science says...
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And the sun is cooling.
( http://sks.to/neptune ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Jupiter is warming", Science says...
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Jupiter is not warming, and anyway the sun is cooling.
( http://sks.to/jupiter ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It’s Pacific Decadal Oscillation", Science says...
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The PDO shows no trend, and therefore the PDO is not responsible for the trend of global warming.
( http://sks.to/pdo ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "CO2 effect is saturated", Science says...
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Direct measurements find that rising CO2 is trapping more heat.
( http://sks.to/saturate ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Pluto is warming", Science says...
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And the sun has been recently cooling.
( http://sks.to/pluto ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Greenland ice sheet won’t collapse", Science says...
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When Greenland was 3 to 5 degrees C warmer than today, a large portion of the Ice Sheet melted.
( http://sks.to/icecollapse ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans", Science says...
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Humans emit 100 times more CO2 than volcanoes.
( http://sks.to/volcano ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Animals and plants can adapt to global warming", Science says...
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Global warming will cause mass extinctions of species that cannot adapt on short time scales.
( http://sks.to/species ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Medieval Warm Period was warmer", Science says...
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Globally averaged temperature now is higher than global temperature in medieval times.
( http://sks.to/mwp ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "CO2 measurements are suspect", Science says...
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CO2 levels are measured by hundreds of stations across the globe, all reporting the same trend.
( http://sks.to/co2data ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It’s the ocean", Science says...
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The oceans are warming and moreover are becoming more acidic, threatening the food chain.
( http://sks.to/ocean ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It’s El Niño", Science says...
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El Nino has no trend and so is not responsible for the trend of global warming.
( http://sks.to/elnino ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Arctic sea ice is back to normal", Science says...
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Thick arctic sea ice is in rapid retreat.
( http://sks.to/arctic ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Less than half of published scientists endorse global warming", Science says...
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Around 95% of climate experts agree that humans are causing global warming.
( http://sks.to/schulte ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Dropped stations introduce warming bias", Science says...
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If the dropped stations had been kept, the temperature would actually be slightly higher.
( http://sks.to/dropped ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Solar Cycle Length proves its the sun", Science says...
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The sun has not warmed since 1970 and so cannot be driving global warming.
( http://sks.to/scl ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It’s aerosols", Science says...
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Aerosols have been masking global warming, which would be worse otherwise.
( http://sks.to/aerosols ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It’s microsite influences", Science says...
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Microsite influences on temperature changes are minimal; good and bad sites show the same trend.
( http://sks.to/microsite ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "CO2 has a short residence time", Science says...
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Excess CO2 from human emissions has a long residence time of over 100 years
( http://sks.to/residence ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It’s a climate regime shift", Science says...
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There is no evidence that climate has chaotic "regimes" on a long-term basis.
( http://sks.to/shift ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "2nd law of thermodynamics contradicts greenhouse theory", Science says...
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The 2nd law of thermodynamics is consistent with the greenhouse effect which is directly observed.
( http://sks.to/thermo ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Humans are too insignificant to affect global climate", Science says...
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Humans are small but powerful, and human CO2 emissions are causing global warming.
( http://sks.to/significant ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It’s not happening", Science says...
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Recent global warming is occurring and is due to humans.
( http://sks.to/nowarm ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Greenhouse effect has been falsified", Science says...
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The greenhouse effect is standard physics and confirmed by observations.
( http://sks.to/falsify ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It’s land use", Science says...
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Land use plays a minor role in climate change, although carbon sequestration may help to mitigate.
( http://sks.to/landuse ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "The science isn’t settled", Science says...
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That human CO2 is causing global warming is known with high certainty and confirmed by observations.
( http://sks.to/settled ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "2009-2010 winter saw record cold spells", Science says...
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A cold day in Chicago in winter has nothing to do with the trend of global warming.
( http://sks.to/winter ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It’s methane", Science says...
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Methane plays a minor role in global warming but could get much worse if permafrost starts to melt.
( http://sks.to/methane ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "500 scientists refute the consensus", Science says...
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Around 95% of climate experts agree that humans are causing global warming.
( http://sks.to/500 ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Mike’s Nature trick to ‘hide the decline’", Science says...
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Michael Mann was quoted out of context, and nothing was hidden.
( http://sks.to/decline ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "IPCC were wrong about Himalayan glaciers", Science says...
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Glaciers are in rapid retreat worldwide, despite 1 error in 1 paragraph in a 1000 page IPCC report.
( http://sks.to/himalaya ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Ocean acidification isn’t serious", Science says...
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Past history shows that when CO2 rises quickly, there was mass extinctions of coral reefs.
( http://sks.to/acid ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Sea level rise predictions are exaggerated", Science says...
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Sea level rise is now increasing faster than predicted due to unexpectedly rapid ice melting.
( http://sks.to/seapredict ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Naomi Oreskes’ study on consensus was flawed", Science says...
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Benny Peiser, the Oreskes critic, retracted his criticism.
( http://sks.to/oreskes ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Phil Jones says no global warming since 1995", Science says...
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Phil Jones was misquoted.
( http://sks.to/1995 ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Ice isn’t melting", Science says...
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Ice is melting at an accelerating rate at both poles and in glaciers all over the world.
( http://sks.to/icemelt ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "CO2 is coming from the ocean", Science says...
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The ocean is absorbing massive amounts of CO2, and is becoming more acidic as a result.
( http://sks.to/oceanco2 ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It’s not us", Science says...
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Multiple sets of independent observations find a human fingerprint on climate change.
( http://sks.to/agw ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "CO2 is not increasing", Science says...
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CO2 is increasing rapidly, and is reaching levels not seen on the earth for millions of years.
( http://sks.to/co2up ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It’s albedo", Science says...
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Albedo change in the Arctic, due to receding ice, is increasing global warming.
( http://sks.to/albedo ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Record snowfall disproves global warming", Science says...
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Warming leads to increased evaporation and precipitation, which falls as increased snow in winter.
( http://sks.to/snowfall ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Hansen’s 1988 prediction was wrong", Science says...
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Jim Hansen had several possible scenarios; his mid-level scenario B was right.
( http://sks.to/hansen1988 ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Lindzen and Choi find low climate sensitivity", Science says...
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Lindzen and Choi’s paper is viewed as unacceptably flawed by other climatologists.
( http://sks.to/lindzenchoi ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "The sun is getting hotter", Science says...
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The sun’s output has just oscillated since 1970 with a slight cooling trend.
( http://sks.to/acrim ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Solar cycles cause global warming", Science says...
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Over recent decades, the sun has been slightly cooling and is irrelevant to recent global warming.
( http://sks.to/solarcycle ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Springs aren’t advancing", Science says...
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Hundreds of flowers across the UK are flowering earlier now than any time in 250 years.
( http://sks.to/spring ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Over 31,000 scientists signed the OISM Petition Project", Science says...
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The ‘OISM petition’ was signed by only a few climatologists.
( http://sks.to/oism ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Water levels correlate with sunspots", Science says...
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This detail is irrelevant to the observation of global warming caused by humans.
( http://sks.to/watersun ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "IPCC were wrong about Amazon rainforests", Science says...
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The IPCC statement on Amazon rainforests was correct, and was incorrectly reported in some media.
( http://sks.to/amazon ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Climate is chaotic and cannot be predicted", Science says...
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Weather is chaotic but climate is driven by Earth’s energy imbalance, which is more predictable.
( http://sks.to/chaos ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Water vapor in the stratosphere stopped global warming", Science says...
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This possibility just means that future global warming could be even worse.
( http://sks.to/stratosphere ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Scientists retracted claim that sea levels are rising", Science says...
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The paper in question was misquoted.
( http://sks.to/searetract ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Mauna Loa is a volcano", Science says...
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The global trend is calculated from hundreds of CO2 measuring stations and confirmed by satellites.
( http://sks.to/mauna ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "CO2 is not the only driver of climate", Science says...
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CO2 is the main driver of climate change.
( http://sks.to/driver ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Trenberth can't account for the lack of warming", Science says...
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Trenberth is talking about the details of energy flow, not whether global warming is happening.
( http://sks.to/trenberth ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "CO2 was higher in the late Ordovician", Science says...
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The sun was much cooler during the Ordovician.
( http://sks.to/ordovician ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Southern sea ice is increasing", Science says...
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Antarctic sea ice has grown in recent decades despite the Southern Ocean warming at the same time.
( http://sks.to/southice ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Melting ice isn't warming the Arctic", Science says...
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Melting ice leads to more sunlight being absorbed by water, thus heating the Arctic.
( http://sks.to/amplify ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Global warming stopped in <strike>1998</strike>, <strike>1995</strike>, <strike>2002</strike>, <strike>2007</strike>, <strike>2010</strike>, ????", Science says...
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But global temperatures rose sharply in 2009, to the second hottest level.
( http://sks.to/stopped ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Tree-rings diverge from temperature after 1960", Science says...
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This is a detail that is complex, local, and irrelevant to the observed global warming trend.
( http://sks.to/diverge ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "The IPCC consensus is phoney", Science says...
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Ironically, it’s those who are mispresenting a paper as saying so that are the ones being misleading.
( http://sks.to/hulme ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It's CFCs", Science says...
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CFCs contribute at a small level.
( http://sks.to/cfc ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "A drop in volcanic activity caused warming", Science says...
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Volcanoes have had no warming effect in recent global warming - if anything, a cooling effect.
( http://sks.to/volcanodrop ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "CO2 emissions do not correlate with CO2 concentration", Science says...
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That humans are causing the rise in atmospheric CO2 is confirmed by multiple isotopic analyses.
( http://sks.to/co2conc ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It's global brightening", Science says...
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This is a complex aerosol effect with unclear temperature significance.
( http://sks.to/bright ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Warming causes CO2 rise", Science says...
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Recent warming is due to rising CO2.
( http://sks.to/warmco2 ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It's ozone", Science says...
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Ozone has only a small effect.
( http://sks.to/ozone ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It's satellite microwave transmissions", Science says...
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Satellite transmissions are extremely small and irrelevant.
( http://sks.to/microwave ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "We didn't have global warming during the Industrial Revolution", Science says...
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CO2 emissions were much smaller 100 years ago.
( http://sks.to/industrial ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Greenland has only lost a tiny fraction of its ice mass", Science says...
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Greenland’s ice loss is accelerating and will add metres of sea level rise in upcoming centuries.
( http://sks.to/icefraction ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Antarctica is too cold to lose ice", Science says...
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Glaciers are sliding faster into the ocean because ice shelves are thinning due to warming oceans.
( http://sks.to/toocold ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It's waste heat", Science says...
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Greenhouse warming is adding 100 times more heat to the climate than waste heat.
( http://sks.to/waste ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Satellite error inflated Great Lakes temperatures", Science says...
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Temperature errors in the Great Lakes region are not used in any global temperature records.
( http://sks.to/greatlake ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Positive feedback means runaway warming", Science says...
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Positive feedback won't lead to runaway warming; diminishing returns on feedback cycles limit the amplification.
( http://sks.to/runaway ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "IPCC overestimate temperature rise", Science says...
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Monckton used the IPCC equation in an inappropriate manner.
( http://sks.to/overestimate ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Breathing contributes to CO2 buildup", Science says...
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By breathing out, we are simply returning to the air the same CO2 that was there to begin with.
( http://sks.to/breath ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Ice Sheet losses are overestimated", Science says...
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A number of independent measurements find extensive ice loss from Antarctica and Greenland.
( http://sks.to/iceloss ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Royal Society embraces skepticism", Science says...
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The Royal Society still strongly state that human activity is the dominant cause of global warming.
( http://sks.to/royalsoc ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "DMI (Denmark Meteorological Institute) data show cooling Arctic", Science says...
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While summer maximums have showed little trend, the annual average Arctic temperature has risen sharply in recent decades.
( http://sks.to/dmi ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "CO2 only causes 35% of global warming", Science says...
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On top of CO2 warming, other (short-lived) pollutants such as methane and black carbon cause additional warming 65% as much as CO2.
( http://sks.to/35percent ) |
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Humidity is falling", Science says...
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Multiple lines of independent evidence indicate humidity is rising and provides positive feedback.
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It's a natural cycle", Science says...
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No known natural forcing fits the fingerprints of observed warming except anthropogenic greenhouse gases.
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It's only a few degrees", Science says...
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A few degrees of global warming has a huge impact on ice sheets, sea levels and other aspects of climate.
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It's too hard", Science says...
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When talk radio says of climate change, "CO2 limits will harm the economy", Science says...
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Various economic estimates find the net economic impact of a price on carbon will be minor.
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Renewables can't provide baseload power", Science says...
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A combination of different renewables can provide long-term baseload.
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Clouds provide negative feedback", Science says...
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Evidence is building that net cloud feedback is likely positive and unlikely to be strongly negative.
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When talk radio says of climate change, "CRU tampered with temperature data", Science says...
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An independent inquiry went back to primary data sources and were able to replicate CRU's results.
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Peer review process was corrupted", Science says...
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An Independent Review concluded that CRU's actions were normal and didn't threaten the integrity of peer review.
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Skeptics were kept out of the IPCC?", Science says...
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Official records, Editors and emails suggest CRU scientists acted in the spirit if not the letter of IPCC rules.
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Freedom of Information (FOI) requests were ignored", Science says...
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An independent inquiry found CRU is a small research unit with limited resources and their rigour and honesty are not in doubt.
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Corals are resilient to bleaching", Science says...
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Globally about 1% of coral is dying out each year.
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When talk radio says of climate change, "We're heading into cooling", Science says...
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There is no scientific basis for claims that the planet will begin to cool in the near future.
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When talk radio says of climate change, "They changed the name from global warming to climate change", Science says...
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'Global warming' and 'climate change' mean different things and have both been used for decades.
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Soares finds lack of correlation between CO2 and temperature", Science says...
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Soares looks at short-term trends which are swamped by natural variations while ignoring the long-term correlation.
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Arctic sea ice loss is matched by Antarctic sea ice gain", Science says...
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Arctic sea ice loss is three times greater than Antarctic sea ice gain.
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When talk radio says of climate change, "An exponential increase in CO2 will result in a linear increase in temperature", Science says...
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CO2 levels are rising so fast that unless we decrease emissions, global warming will accelerate this century.
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Record high snow cover was set in winter 2008/2009", Science says...
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Winter snow cover in 2008/2009 was average while the long-term trend in spring, summer, and annual snow cover is rapid decline.
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When talk radio says of climate change, "Earth hasn't warmed as much as expected", Science says...
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This argument ignores the cooling effect of aerosols and the planet's thermal inertia.
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When talk radio says of climate change, "It warmed just as fast in 1860-1880 and 1910-1940", Science says...
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The warming trend over 1970 to 2001 is greater than warming from both 1860 to 1880 and 1910 to 1940.
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