A succinct list of the flaws in the case for man-made climate change (extracted from Andrew Freedman's Washington Post blog

Flaw number 1: Hurricane Katrina was not a particularly severe storm. It made the news because it happened to make landfall in a vulnerable location. Yet the global warmists selected Hurrican Katrina to make their case that carbon dioxide emissions was increasing the severity of storms.

Flaw number 2: If you visit the Florida State Hurricane data center (http://coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/global_running_ace.jpg) you will find that hurricane intensity and frequency are not increasing as claimed by the global warmists. In fact, since the 1990s, hurricane activity has been decreasing even while we were using fossil fuels and emitting more CO2 than ever before.

Flaw number 3: The 2007 summer melt of Arctic sea ice was grossly misinterpreted and misrepresented as a cataclysmic event even though the satellite data of Arctic sea ice extent used go back only about 30 years and even though we have plenty of credible anecdotal data that the Northwest Passage had been open in recorded history.

Flaw number 4: First we were told that Antarctica was warming due to CO2 emissionf from fossil fuels. When challenged with hard data from weather stations that showed the continent was actually cooling they argued that this kind of cooling was consistent with their man made global warming hypothesis.

Flaw number 5: First they predicted that CO2 emissions will increase the frequency and severity of El Nino events. When asked why we have not had a severe El Nino since 1998 they said that El Nino was a very complicated climactic event with many inter-related variables and therefore they are unpredictable.

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