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Here are all the Skeptical Science arguments along with short URLs, convenient for tweeting and posting in comments:

"It's the sun" http://sks.to/sun
"Climate's changed before" http://sks.to/past
"There is no consensus" http://sks.to/consensus
"It's cooling" http://sks.to/cooling
"Models are unreliable" http://sks.to/model
"Temp record is unreliable" http://sks.to/temp
"It hasn't warmed since 1998" http://sks.to/1998
"Ice age predicted in the 70s" http://sks.to/1970s
"We're heading into an ice age" http://sks.to/iceage
"Antarctica is gaining ice" http://sks.to/antarctica
"CO2 lags temperature" http://sks.to/lag
"It's not bad" http://sks.to/impacts
"Al Gore got it wrong" http://sks.to/gore
"It's cosmic rays" http://sks.to/cosmic
"It's freaking cold!" http://sks.to/cold
"Hurricanes aren't linked to global warming" http://sks.to/hurricane
"1934 - hottest year on record" http://sks.to/1934
"Hockey stick is broken" http://sks.to/hockey
"Mars is warming" http://sks.to/mars
"It's Urban Heat Island effect" http://sks.to/uhi
"It's a 1500 year cycle" http://sks.to/1500cycle
"Arctic icemelt is a natural cycle" http://sks.to/arcticcycle
"Sea level rise is exaggerated" http://sks.to/sealevel
"Water vapor is the most powerful greenhouse gas" http://sks.to/vapor
"Other planets are warming" http://sks.to/planets
"Was Greenland really green in the past?" http://sks.to/green
"Oceans are cooling" http://sks.to/oceanheat
"Climategate CRU emails suggest conspiracy" http://sks.to/climategate
"Human CO2 is a tiny % of CO2 emissions" http://sks.to/co2
"Climate sensitivity is low" http://sks.to/sensitivity
"Increasing CO2 has little to no effect" http://sks.to/greenhouse
"We're coming out of the Little Ice Age" http://sks.to/lia
"It cooled mid-century" http://sks.to/midcentury
"Glaciers are growing" http://sks.to/glacier
"It warmed before 1940 when CO2 was low" http://sks.to/pre1940
"There's no empirical evidence" http://sks.to/evidence
"Polar bear numbers are increasing" http://sks.to/bear
"Satellites show no warming in the troposphere" http://sks.to/troposphere
"Mt. Kilimanjaro's ice loss is due to land use" http://sks.to/kilimanjaro
"IPCC is alarmist" http://sks.to/underestimat
"Extreme weather isn't caused by global warming" http://sks.to/extreme
"CO2 is not a pollutant" http://sks.to/pollutant
"There's no correlation between CO2 and temperature" http://sks.to/correlate
"Greenland is gaining ice" http://sks.to/greenland
"CO2 was higher in the past" http://sks.to/pastco2
"Scientists can't even predict weather" http://sks.to/weather
"There's no tropospheric hot spot" http://sks.to/hotspot
"Neptune is warming" http://sks.to/neptune
"Jupiter is warming" http://sks.to/jupiter
"It's Pacific Decadal Oscillation" http://sks.to/pdo
"CO2 effect is saturated" http://sks.to/saturate
"Pluto is warming" http://sks.to/pluto
"Greenland ice sheet won't collapse" http://sks.to/icecollapse
"Volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans" http://sks.to/volcano
"Animals and plants can adapt" http://sks.to/species
"Medieval Warm Period was warmer" http://sks.to/mwp
"CO2 measurements are suspect" http://sks.to/co2data
"It's the ocean" http://sks.to/ocean
"It's El Niño" http://sks.to/elnino
"Arctic sea ice has recovered" http://sks.to/arctic
"Less than half of published scientists endorse global warming" http://sks.to/schulte
"Dropped stations introduce warming bias" http://sks.to/dropped
"Solar Cycle Length proves its the sun" http://sks.to/scl
"It's aerosols" http://sks.to/aerosols
"It's microsite influences" http://sks.to/microsite
"CO2 has a short residence time" http://sks.to/residence
"It's a climate regime shift" http://sks.to/shift
"2nd law of thermodynamics contradicts greenhouse theory" http://sks.to/thermo
"Humans are too insignificant to affect global climate" http://sks.to/significant
"It's not happening" http://sks.to/warming
"Greenhouse effect has been falsified" http://sks.to/falsify
"It's land use" http://sks.to/landuse
"The science isn't settled" http://sks.to/settled
"2009-2010 winter saw record cold spells" http://sks.to/winter
"It's methane" http://sks.to/methane
"500 scientists refute the consensus" http://sks.to/500
"Scientists tried to 'hide the decline' in global temperature" http://sks.to/decline
"IPCC were wrong about Himalayan glaciers" http://sks.to/himalaya
"Ocean acidification isn't serious" http://sks.to/acid
"Sea level rise predictions are exaggerated" http://sks.to/seapredict
"Naomi Oreskes' study on consensus was flawed" http://sks.to/oreskes
"Phil Jones says no global warming since 1995" http://sks.to/1995
"Ice isn't melting" http://sks.to/icemelt
"CO2 is coming from the ocean" http://sks.to/oceanco2
"It's not us" http://sks.to/agw
"CO2 is not increasing" http://sks.to/co2up
"It's albedo" http://sks.to/albedo
"Record snowfall disproves global warming" http://sks.to/snowfall
"Hansen's 1988 prediction was wrong" http://sks.to/hansen1988
"Lindzen and Choi find low climate sensitivity" http://sks.to/lindzenchoi
"The sun is getting hotter" http://sks.to/acrim
"Solar cycles cause global warming" http://sks.to/solarcycle
"Springs aren't advancing" http://sks.to/spring
"Over 31,000 scientists signed the OISM Petition Project" http://sks.to/oism
"Water levels correlate with sunspots" http://sks.to/watersun
"IPCC were wrong about Amazon rainforests" http://sks.to/amazon
"Climate is chaotic and cannot be predicted" http://sks.to/chaos
"Water vapor in the stratosphere stopped global warming" http://sks.to/stratosphere
"Scientists retracted claim that sea levels are rising" http://sks.to/searetract
"Mauna Loa is a volcano" http://sks.to/mauna
"CO2 is not the only driver of climate" http://sks.to/driver
"Trenberth can't account for the lack of warming" http://sks.to/trenberth
"CO2 was higher in the late Ordovician" http://sks.to/ordovician
"Southern sea ice is increasing" http://sks.to/southice
"Melting ice isn't warming the Arctic" http://sks.to/amplify
"Global warming stopped in 1998, 1995, 2002, 2007, 2010, ????" http://sks.to/stopped
"Tree-rings diverge from temperature after 1960" http://sks.to/diverge
"The IPCC consensus is phoney" http://sks.to/hulme
"It's CFCs" http://sks.to/cfc
"A drop in volcanic activity caused warming" http://sks.to/volcanodrop
"CO2 emissions do not correlate with CO2 concentration" http://sks.to/co2conc
"It's global brightening" http://sks.to/bright
"Warming causes CO2 rise" http://sks.to/warmco2
"It's ozone" http://sks.to/ozone
"It's satellite microwave transmissions" http://sks.to/microwave
"We didn't have global warming during the Industrial Revolution" http://sks.to/industrial
"Greenland has only lost a tiny fraction of its ice mass" http://sks.to/icefraction
"Antarctica is too cold to lose ice" http://sks.to/toocold
"It's waste heat" http://sks.to/waste
"CO2 is plant food" http://sks.to/plant
"Satellite error inflated Great Lakes temperatures" http://sks.to/greatlake
"Positive feedback means runaway warming" http://sks.to/runaway
"CO2 is just a trace gas" http://sks.to/trace
"IPCC overestimate temperature rise" http://sks.to/overestimate
"Breathing contributes to CO2 buildup" http://sks.to/breath
"Ice Sheet losses are overestimated" http://sks.to/iceloss
"Royal Society embraces skepticism" http://sks.to/royalsoc
"DMI show cooling Arctic" http://sks.to/dmi
"CO2 only causes 35% of global warming" http://sks.to/35percent
"Humidity is falling" http://sks.to/humidity
"It's a natural cycle" http://sks.to/cycle
"It's only a few degrees" http://sks.to/fewdegrees
"It's too hard" http://sks.to/toohard
"CO2 limits will harm the economy" http://sks.to/economy
"Renewables can't provide baseload power" http://sks.to/baseload
"Clouds provide negative feedback" http://sks.to/cloud
"CRU tampered with temperature data" http://sks.to/tamper
"Peer review process was corrupted" http://sks.to/peerreview
"Skeptics were kept out of the IPCC?" http://sks.to/ipccskeptic
"Freedom of Information (FOI) requests were ignored" http://sks.to/foi
"Corals are resilient to bleaching" http://sks.to/bleach
"We're heading into cooling" http://sks.to/futurecool
"Plant stomata show higher and more variable CO2 levels" http://sks.to/stomata
"They changed the name from 'global warming' to 'climate change'" http://sks.to/name
"Soares finds lack of correlation between CO2 and temperature" http://sks.to/soares
"Arctic sea ice loss is matched by Antarctic sea ice gain" http://sks.to/seaice
"An exponential increase in CO2 will result in a linear increase in temperature" http://sks.to/linear
"Record high snow cover was set in winter 2008/2009" http://sks.to/snowcover
"Coral atolls grow as sea levels rise" http://sks.to/atoll
"Earth hasn't warmed as much as expected" http://sks.to/inertia
"It warmed just as fast in 1860-1880 and 1910-1940" http://sks.to/trends
"Most of the last 10,000 years were warmer" http://sks.to/10000
"IPCC ‘disappeared’ the Medieval Warm Period" http://sks.to/ipccmwp
"Ljungqvist broke the hockey stick" http://sks.to/ljungqvist
"CO2 limits will make little difference" http://sks.to/limits
"Hansen predicted the West Side Highway would be underwater" http://sks.to/highway
"Removing all CO2 would make little difference" http://sks.to/removeco2
"It's not urgent" http://sks.to/urgent
"It's soot" http://sks.to/soot
"CO2 limits will hurt the poor" http://sks.to/poor
"Arctic was warmer in 1940" http://sks.to/arctic1940
"Renewable energy is too expensive" http://sks.to/expensive
"Sea level rise is decelerating" http://sks.to/sealevelrise
"Venus doesn't have a runaway greenhouse effect" http://sks.to/venus
"It's internal variability" http://sks.to/variable
"CO2 limits won't cool the planet" http://sks.to/limitscool
"Sea level is not rising" http://sks.to/searise
"Renewable energy investment kills jobs" http://sks.to/jobs
"Great Barrier Reef is in good shape" http://sks.to/gbr
"Roy Spencer finds negative feedback" http://sks.to/negspencer
"Loehle and Scafetta find a 60 year cycle causing global warming" http://sks.to/loehle
"Murry Salby finds CO2 rise is natural" http://sks.to/salby
"CO2 increase is natural, not human-caused" http://sks.to/co2increase
"Postma disproved the greenhouse effect" http://sks.to/postma
"CERN CLOUD experiment proved cosmic rays are causing global warming" http://sks.to/CERN
"Sea level fell in 2010" http://sks.to/slr2010
"Underground temperatures control climate" http://sks.to/underground
"Climate 'Skeptics' are like Galileo" http://sks.to/galileo
"Northwest passage has been navigated in the past" http://sks.to/northwest
"It's a climate shift step function caused by natural cycles" http://sks.to/stepfunction
"Tuvalu sea level isn't rising" http://sks.to/tuvalu
"BEST hides the decline in global temperature" http://sks.to/best
"It's planetary movements" http://sks.to/planetary
"Schmittner finds low climate sensitivity" http://sks.to/schmittner
"Infrared Iris will reduce global warming" http://sks.to/iris
"UAH atmospheric temperatures prove climate models and/or surface temperature data sets are wrong" http://sks.to/uah
"Ben Santer rewrote the 1995 IPCC report" http://sks.to/santer
"IPCC graph showing accelerating trends is misleading" http://sks.to/accelerate
"IPCC edited out natural causes of climate change" http://sks.to/ipccnatural
"Tropical thermostat limits sea surface temperature to 30°C" http://sks.to/thermostat
"Humans survived past climate changes" http://sks.to/survived
"Himalayan glaciers are not shrinking" http://sks.to/himalayagrow
"Climate science peer review is pal review" http://sks.to/pal
"Nuclear testing is causing global warming" http://sks.to/nuclear
"Arctic sea ice loss in the 1940s was similar to today's" http://sks.to/seaice1940
"Arctic sea ice extent was lower in the past" http://sks.to/pastarctic
"Arctic Storm Caused the 2012 Record Sea Ice Minimum" http://sks.to/arcticstorm
"The connection between Hurricane Sandy and global warming" http://sks.to/sandy
"Monckton shows the IPCC overestimated warming" http://sks.to/moncktonIPCC
"No warming in 16 years" http://sks.to/16years
"No long tail means climate sensitivity is low" http://sks.to/longtail
"The 97% consensus on human-caused global warming is a robust result" http://sks.to/97percent
"A grand solar minimum could trigger another ice age" http://sks.to/solarminimum
"97% consensus on human-caused global warming has been disproven" http://sks.to/robust97
"Akasofu Proved Global Warming is Just a Recovery from the Little Ice Age" http://sks.to/akasofu
"IPCC human-caused global warming attribution confidence is unfounded" http://sks.to/confidence
"IPCC global warming projections were wrong" http://sks.to/projections
"IPCC admits global warming has paused" http://sks.to/ipccpause
"Heatwaves have happened before" http://sks.to/heatwave
"Deniers are part of the 97%" http://sks.to/fringe
"Climate change isn't increasing extreme weather damage costs" http://sks.to/damagecosts
"Climate change solutions are too expensive" http://sks.to/costs
"Animal agriculture and eating meat are the biggest causes of global warming" http://sks.to/meat
"Satellite record is more reliable than thermometers" http://sks.to/satellite
"Climate scientists are in it for the money" http://sks.to/money
"Holistic Management can reverse Climate Change " http://sks.to/holistic
"Wildfires are not caused by global warming" http://sks.to/wildfires
"Planting a trillion trees will solve global warming" http://sks.to/trees
"Veganism is the best way to reduce carbon emissions" http://sks.to/veganism
"Electromagnetic fields from solar farms are harmful to human health" http://sks.to/solaremf
"Toxic heavy metals leach out from solar panels and pose a threat to human health" http://sks.to/solarmetals
"Solar panels generate too much waste and will overwhelm landfills" http://sks.to/solarwaste
"Clearing trees for solar panels negates any climate change benefits" http://sks.to/solartrees
"Solar energy is worse for the climate than burning fossil fuels" http://sks.to/solarvsff
"Solar projects harm biodiversity" http://sks.to/solarbiodiv
"Solar projects will hurt farmers and rural communities" http://sks.to/solarag
"Solar development will destroy jobs" http://sks.to/solarjobs
"Reliance on solar will make the United States dependent on China and other countries" http://sks.to/solarchina
"Utility-scale solar farms destroy the value of nearby homes" http://sks.to/solarhomeval
"Solar energy is more expensive than fossil fuels and completely dependent on subsidies" http://sks.to/solarprice
"Solar panels don’t work in cold or cloudy climates" http://sks.to/solarclouds
"Solar energy is unreliable" http://sks.to/solarunrel
"We do not have sufficient mineral resources for [large-scale] solar development" http://sks.to/solarmineral
"Electromagnetic radiation from wind turbines poses a threat to human health" http://sks.to/windem
"Wind turbines are error prone and a threat to human health and safety" http://sks.to/windfall
"Low-frequency noise from wind turbines harms human health and causes 'wind turbine syndrome'" http://sks.to/windsyndrome
"Shadow flicker from wind turbines can trigger seizures in people with epilepsy" http://sks.to/windshadow
"Wind turbines are a major threat to birds, bats, and other wildlife." http://sks.to/windwildlife
"Offshore wind development is harmful to whales and other marine life" http://sks.to/windwhales
"Producing and transporting wind turbine components releases more carbon dioxide than burning fossil fuels" http://sks.to/windco2
"Wind turbines will generate an unsustainable amount of waste" http://sks.to/windwaste
"Wind turbines take up too much land" http://sks.to/windland
"Wind power - particularly offshore wind power - is too expensive" http://sks.to/windprice
"Wind turbines are bad for farmers and rural communities" http://sks.to/windrural
"Wind energy is bad for U.S. jobs" http://sks.to/windjobs
"Wind turbines destroy nearby property values" http://sks.to/windhomeval
"Wind energy is unreliable" http://sks.to/windunrel
"Wind turbines are very noisy" http://sks.to/windnoise
"Electric vehicles have a net harmful effect on climate change" http://sks.to/evharm
"Electric vehicles will cost the United States many automobile industry jobs" http://sks.to/evjobs
"Electric vehicles are impractical due to range restrictions" http://sks.to/evrange
"Electric vehicles cannot function in hot or cold weather" http://sks.to/evweather


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