Stages of Denial

• There's no reason to think the earth is warming
• A couple of warm years is not a trend
• There are problems with the temperature records
• 100 years is not enough
• Glaciers have always grown and receded
• The warming is just urban heat island effect
• The CO2 rise is measured on top of a volcano!
• Likely, mostly, probably ... even scientists aren't sure!

• It's cold today in Wagga Wagga
• Antarctic ice is growing
• Satellites show cooling
• It cooled mid-century, despite CO2 rising
• Warming stopped in 1998
• But the glaciers are not melting
• Antarctic sea ice is increasing
• Observations show climate sensitivity is not very high
• Sea level in the Arctic is falling
• Some sites show cooling

• Global warming is just a hoax
• There is no consensus
• Instituitional pronouncements hide the real debate
• So much consensus in a science is sure sign of pressure
• Benny Peiser did a survey of the science and there is plenty of dissent

• We cannot trust unproven computer models
• The models don't have clouds
• If aerosols are blocking the sun, the south should warm faster
• Observations show climate sensitivity is not very high

• We can't even predict the weather next week
• Chaotic systems are not predictable

• The modelers won't tell us how confident they are in the models
• Hansen has been wrong before
• We can't explain past climates, so who knows?
• Likely, mostly, probably ... even scientists aren't sure!
• They predicted cooling in the 1970s