Here's another good site that was shown to me earlier today:
Met Office: Climate change myths
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Prof. John Mitchell OBE FRS, Chief Scientist at the Met Office explores some of the common myths about climate change.
The Met Office recognises that climate change is a complex subject. There are genuine areas of uncertainty and scientific controversy. There are also a number of misunderstandings and myths which are recycled, often by non-climate scientists, and portrayed as scientific fact.
Recent coverage has questioned the influence of humans on the climate. While the arguments used might have been regarded as genuine areas of sceptical enquiry 20 years ago, further observed warming and advances in climate science render these out of touch.
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Myth 1 - Ice core records show that changes in temperature drive changes in carbon dioxide, and it is not carbon dioxide that is driving the current warming
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Myth 2 - Solar activity is the main driver of climate change
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Myth 3 - There is less warming in the upper atmosphere than at the surface which disproves human-induced warming
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Myth 4 - The intensity of cosmic rays changes climate
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Myth 5 - Climate models are too complex and uncertain to provide useful projections of climate change
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link for brief summaries supporting each contention of myth.
