Australian climate scientist Joanne Nova has posted a sixth revision of The Skeptic’s Handbook, which briefly and clearly summarizes the major problems with manmade global warming alarmism.
On page 3, she lists “The only 4 points that matter”:
- The greenhouse signature is missing.Weather balloons have scanned the skies for years but can find no sign of the telltale “hot-spot” warming pattern that greenhouse gases would leave. There’s not even a hint. Something else caused the warming.
- The strongest evidence was the ice cores, but newer, more detailed, data turned the theory inside out. Instead of carbon pushing up temperatures, for the last half-a-million years temperatures have gone up before carbon dioxide levels. On average 800 years before…. Something else caused the warming.
- Temperatures are not rising. Satellites circling the planet twice a day show that the world has not warmed since 2001…. While temperatures have been flat, CO2 has been rising, BUT something else has changed the trend….
- Carbon dioxide is already doing almost all the warming it can do.… The first CO2 molecules matter a lot, but extra ones have less and less effect. In fact, carbon levels were ten times as high in the past but the world still slipped into an ice age….
The Skeptic’s Handbook is an excellent resource to give to open-minded believers in manmade warming.
