Climate Change Skeptics

The following are links to climate change skeptics or hoax pages. Each is followed by a series of links which rebut or discredit the hoax.

1. Timothy Ball http://canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming020507.htm

Rebuttals:

• Wikipedia on Ball: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_F._Ball
• Global Cooling: http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/11/23/18534/222

2. Richard S. Lindzen: http://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=1714

Rebuttals:

• Wikipedia on Lindzen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lindzen
• Sunspot correlation: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/05/fun-with-correlations/
• Gavin Schmidt and Michael Mann on Lindzen:  http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/04/lindzen-in-newsweek/

3. Global warming is a farce: http://www.globalwarmingisafarce.com/

Rebuttals:

• Who put this page up? Are they a credible expert? All they have really done is post some links to climate skeptics (much like this page).
• Many links are to work by the same person(s). So over all, the number of sited scientists is only a handful.
• The simplistic argument at the bottom of the page about clouds: http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/11/11/221311/27
• Al Gore takes a beating in this page. But is Al Gore doing the scientific research behind global warming or are we just shooting the messenger here?

4. Warren Meyer: http://www.climate-skeptic.com/2007/09/table-of-conten.html

Rebuttal:

• Meyer is a business man and author (not a scientist or reporter): http://www.coyoteblog.com/about.html and http://www.bmocbook.com/
• According to his climate skeptics page he doesn't believe that radiation from the Chernobyl accident is a problem or that HIV in Africa is a problem (in addition to global warming, which he also doesn't believe). But he seems afraid that asking businesses to cut emissions will have a devastating effect on the economy.
• At one point on the page he says about the IPCC report "This is absolute, unmitigated crap" but then goes on to say he hasn't seen the specifics in the report.... 
• His elaborate criticism of the temperature graphs seems to be saying scientists are lying. But these are all independent studies. Are they all lying? Are all 2000+ scientists working on the IPCC reports all lying? The 'hockey stick' diagram has been criticized in the scientific literature but never found to be wrong. How likely is it that an ordinary business man can come up with a criticism that no one thought of about scientific data that has been hotly debated in the scientific community? Further discussion of the 'hockey stick' graph: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/05/the-weirdest-millennium/

5. T J. Nelson: http://brneurosci.org/co2.html

Rebuttal:

• Who is this guy?
• He seems to think the IPCC is making trend predictions (rather than actual calculations of future climate).

6. A list of other scientists who oppose the mainstream scientific views on global warming (Wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientists_opposing_the_mainstream_scientific_assessment_of_global_warming

Rebuttal:

• There are 34 scientists listed. The IPCC claims 2000+ scientists.
• There are around 30 scientific organizations (national and international) which accept the concept of human caused global warming: http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/11/13/221250/49