Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Ten Popular Myths About Climate Change
As brought to you by the Sierra Club, they are:
- There is no scientific consensus
- American scientists don't buy it - 19,000 signed a petition against the IPCC's views and the need for the Kyoto Protocol
- This is all within natural variability
- It won't affect Canada much - and definitely not in my lifetime
- A few degrees more will be really nice - especially for plants!
- The scientific models aren't very good at projecting the future
- Carbon Dioxide levels are not strongly related to temperature - how could they in such trace amounts?
- Satellite measurements have not shown the trends
- The observed warming is all due to solar radiation variability, not human activity
- Scientists are just exaggerating in order to get more funding
