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13 Misconceptions About Global Warming


Common misconceptions about climate change.
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References below:

For CO2, sea levels, Arctic sea ice, Antarctic and Greenland land ice:
http://climate.nasa.gov

Satellite data shows that ground-based stations underestimate recent warming: Cowtan and Way, 2014
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qj.2297/full

For papers published on climate change during the 1970's, see Peterson, 2008
http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/131047.pdf

For solar and temperature data see NASA GISS,
PMOD: http://www.acrim.com/tsi%20monitoring.htm
Krivova et al. 2007:
http://www2.mps.mpg.de/projects/sun-climate/data.html

CO2 ratio of Carbon-13:Carbon-12 decreasing. IPCC AR4:
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch2s2-3.html

CO2 emitted by volcanoes vs by humans: Gerlach, 2011
www.agu.org/pubs/pdf/2011eo240001.pdf Gerlach

Mauna Loa CO2 data: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/

Rising atmospheric water vapour: Santer, 2007
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0702872104v1.pdf

A doubling of CO2 will likely lead to a 3C increase in global temperatures according to many independent pieces of evidence:
Knutti & Hegerl, 2008
http://www.iac.ethz.ch/people/knuttir/papers/knutti08natgeo.pdf

Great resource on Milankovitch cycles:
http://www.sciencecourseware.org/eec/GlobalWarming/Tutorials/Milankovitch/

CO2 lags temperature rise in the southern hemisphere but leads the global average temperature rise, Shakun et al. 2012
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/n7392/abs/nature10915.html

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