Arguments
Climate Myths sorted by taxonomy
It's not happening
- Temp record is unreliable
- It's cooling
- Ice isn't melting
- Climategate CRU emails suggest conspiracy
- Sea level rise is exaggerated
- There is no consensus
- IPCC is alarmist
- IPCC were wrong about Himalayan glaciers
- IPCC were wrong about Amazon rainforests
- IPCC overestimate temperature rise
- IPCC ‘disappeared’ the Medieval Warm Period
- The IPCC consensus is phoney
- IPCC graph showing accelerating trends is misleading
- IPCC edited out natural causes of climate change
- 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
- They changed the name from 'global warming' to 'climate change'
- The science isn't settled
- Over 31,000 scientists signed the OISM Petition Project
- Climate 'Skeptics' are like Galileo
- Royal Society embraces skepticism
- The 97% consensus on human-caused global warming is a robust result
- 97% consensus on human-caused global warming has been disproven
- IPCC is alarmist
- Climate scientists are in it for the money
- Springs aren't advancing
- Melting ice isn't warming the Arctic
It's not us
- There's no empirical evidence
- Climate's changed before
- Medieval Warm Period was warmer
- Was Greenland really green in the past?
- 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
- Most of the last 10,000 years were warmer
- Humans survived past climate changes
- Heatwaves have happened before
- Increasing CO2 has little to no effect
- There's no correlation between CO2 and temperature
- It's the sun
- Other planets are warming
- CO2 is not the only driver of climate
- It's the ocean
- Humans are too insignificant to affect global climate
- Models are unreliable
- Extreme weather isn't caused by global warming
- Wildfires are not caused by global warming
- Mt. Kilimanjaro's ice loss is due to land use
- Nuclear testing is causing global warming
It's not bad
- Climate sensitivity is low
- Earth hasn't warmed as much as expected
- Infrared Iris will reduce global warming
- Lindzen and Choi find low climate sensitivity
- Positive feedback means runaway warming
- Humidity is falling
- Clouds provide negative feedback
- Roy Spencer finds negative feedback
- Schmittner finds low climate sensitivity
- Tropical thermostat limits sea surface temperature to 30°C
- No long tail means climate sensitivity is low
- 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
- Climate sensitivity is low
It's too hard
- CO2 limits will harm the economy
- CO2 limits will hurt the poor
- CO2 limits will make little difference
- Renewables can't provide baseload power
- It's not urgent
- Electromagnetic fields from solar farms are harmful to human health
- Toxic heavy metals leach out from solar panels and pose a threat to human health
- Solar panels generate too much waste and will overwhelm landfills
- Clearing trees for solar panels negates any climate change benefits
- Solar energy is worse for the climate than burning fossil fuels
- Solar projects harm biodiversity
- Solar projects will hurt farmers and rural communities
- Solar development will destroy jobs
- Reliance on solar will make the United States dependent on China and other countries
- Utility-scale solar farms destroy the value of nearby homes
- Solar energy is more expensive than fossil fuels and completely dependent on subsidies
- Solar panels don’t work in cold or cloudy climates
- Solar energy is unreliable
- We do not have sufficient mineral resources for [large-scale] solar development
- Electromagnetic radiation from wind turbines poses a threat to human health
- Wind turbines are error prone and a threat to human health and safety
- Low-frequency noise from wind turbines harms human health and causes 'wind turbine syndrome'
- Shadow flicker from wind turbines can trigger seizures in people with epilepsy
- Wind turbines are a major threat to birds, bats, and other wildlife.
- Offshore wind development is harmful to whales and other marine life
- Producing and transporting wind turbine components releases more carbon dioxide than burning fossil fuels
- Wind turbines will generate an unsustainable amount of waste
- Wind turbines take up too much land
- Wind power - particularly offshore wind power - is too expensive
- Wind turbines are bad for farmers and rural communities
- Wind energy is bad for U.S. jobs
- Wind turbines destroy nearby property values
- Wind energy is unreliable
- Wind turbines are very noisy
- Electric vehicles have a net harmful effect on climate change
- Electric vehicles will cost the United States many automobile industry jobs
- Electric vehicles are impractical due to range restrictions
- Electric vehicles cannot function in hot or cold weather
