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This site is a supplement to the RealClimate.org website.

It is primarily an index for debunking of various popular media occurrences of climate-related nonsense. Articles are sorted by where they appear (outlet and country), or alphabetically by author. Under each article you will find links to rebuttals of specific arguments and overall critiques of the pieces. This is by no means comprehensive, but should provide a starting point for those interested in seeing why these pieces are wrong. We do not include mainstream journalist pieces that are occasionally mistaken or somewhat sensationalist (see the main website for that kind of commentary), but we do include the op-ed pieces that are specifically designed to confuse, obfuscate and abuse the science.

For each article, the links to content are on the author page (or in the case of editorials, on the newspaper page). Links are provided to content on a number of sites, some of the most common are denoted by initials: RC = RealClimate, CB = Coby Beck's "How to talk to skeptic guide" at A Few Things Ill Considered, TL = Tim Lambert at Deltoid.

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Contents 1 By Topic 2 Alphabetically (by author) 3 By Myth 4 By Media Outlet 5 By Source Country 6 Help with Wikis

By Topic

These sites have debunks by topic:

• How to talk to a GW skeptic (CB)
• Climate Change: A guide for the perplexed New Scientist
• Response to common contrarian arguments (RC)
• Climate change debate summary NERC (UK)
• Climate Change Guide UK Met. Office
• A thorough debunking Brian Angliss
• Global Warming Myths OSS Foundation
• Skeptical Science John Cook

Alphabetically (by author)

Albrechtsen, Janet Allègre, Claude Ambler, Harold Archibald, David C. Asher, Michael Ball, Tim Beck, E. G. Bellamy, David Blair, Tim Bolt, Andrew Booker, Christopher Boucenna, Ahmed Carter, Robert Chapman, Phil Crichton, Michael Cockburn, Alexander Coleman, John Corcoran, Terence D’Aleo, Joe de Freitas, Chris Devine, Frank Douglass, David, et al. Duffy, Michael Dyson, Freeman Easterbrook, Don Easterbrook, Gregg Evans, David

Evans, Ray (Lavoisier Group) Feldman, Stanley, and Vincent Marks Galvin, Cyril Green, Kenneth P. Gerlich and Tscheuschner Goddard, Steven Gray, Vincent Gray, William Gunter, Lorne Harris, Tom Herman, Arthur Hertzberg, Martin House of Lords Economic Affairs Select Committee Report Jacoby, Jeff Jaworowski, Zbignew Jensen, Dennis Johnson, Paul Kenny, Chris Khilyuk and Chilingar Kininmonth, William Krauthammer, Charles Lawson, Nigel Levitt, S. and Dubner, S (Superfreakonomics) Lindzen, Richard Littlejohn, Richard Lomborg, Bjørn Lovley, Erika

McLean, John Michaels, Patrick Miskolczi, Ferenc Monckton, Christopher Montford, Andrew Marohasy, Jennifer McFayden, Ian Novak, Robert Nova, Joanne O'Neil, Brendan Plimer, Ian Rancourt, Denis Robinson et al (OISM) Saunders , Debra J. Siddons, Alan Singer, Fred Skywalker, Lucy Solomon, Lawrence Soon, Willie Spencer, Roy Stapleton, John Stephens, Bret Stewart, Cameron Theon, John S Walker, Len Watts, Anthony Will, George

By Myth

• Chaotic systems are not predictable
• Climate models are not reliable/don't include clouds and/or other feedbacks
• CO2 isn't rising as quickly as projections
• CO2 doesn't lead, it lags
• CO2 record is not reliable
• Global temperatures are decreasing
• Impacts will be beneficial
• Instrumental Record is Not Reliable
• IPCC has reduced its Sea Level Rise projections
• It's all just the sun
• Modern changes simply part of natural cycle
• Observed CO2 rise is natural
• Predictions don't match observations
• Sea Level Rise projections are exaggerated
• The hockey stick is broken
• They predicted global cooling in the 1970s
• Warming doesn't coincide with anthropogenic impacts
• Warming is due to the Urban Heat Island effect
• Water vapor accounts for almost all of the greenhouse effect

By Media Outlet

• Newspapers
  • The Age (Melbourne)
  • The Australian
  • National/Financial Post (Canada)
  • The Daily/Sunday Telegraph (UK)
  • The Wall Street Journal (US)
  • The Washington Post (US)
  • The San Francisco Chronicle (US)

• Internet 'News' media
• 'Scientific' publications
• Economics journals
• Books
• Television
  • Exposed: The Climate of Fear
  • Global Dimming
  • The Great Global Warming Swindle

By Source Country

• United States
• Canada
• United Kingdom
• Australia
• Germany
• France
• Other countries

Help with Wikis

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