Debunking Climate Myths : The Facts

Claim #1:
Antarctic Peninsula is shrinking

FACT:
2008 peer-reviewed paper in American Geophysical Union found “a doubling in snow accumulation in the western Antarctic Peninsula since 1850.”

Claim #2:
Glaciers are melting throughout the world.

FACT:
A UN Report in 2010 reported that “glaciers increasing despite climate change... glaciers in many areas of the world are increasing.”

Claim #3:
The IPCC stated the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035.

FACT:
The IPCC got that unsubstantiated and false statistic from a World Wildlife Federation brochure. In January 2010, Time magazine article, Himalayan Melting, How a Climate Panel Got it Wrong: “Glaciergate” is a “black eye for the IPCC and the climate-science community as a whole.”

Claim #4:
Polar Bears are disappearing.FAC T: Director of Wildlife Research with the Arctic Government of Nunavut: “Of 13 populations of polar bears in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number. They are not going extinct, or even appear to be affected at present.

”FACT:
In the 50’s and 60’s there were between 5,000 and 10,000 polar bears. Today there are between 15,000 and 25,000.

Claim #5:
May 2013, President Obama claimed the climate is warming faster than anybody anticipated five or 10 years ago.”

FACT:
Nature reported “For the period [1998-2012] the observed trend of temperatures is ... not significantly different from zero and suggests a temporary hiatus in global warming.”
FACT:
The Economist reported “over the past 15 years, air temperatures at the Earth’s surface have been flat ...”

Claim #6:
2014 was the warmest year in modern record by 0.02 degree.

FACT:
Only a “38% chance 2014 was the warmest year on record.” Margin of error, which on average is 0.1 degree Celsius, made “impossible to conclude 2014 was the warmest year” according to the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project stated,

Claim #7:
In 2000, Democrats started saying that the science is settled.

FACT:
I started getting phone calls from scientists disagreeing so I made a speech on the floor showing how many scientists disagreed.

Claim #8:
Global warming is causing more tornadoes.

FACT:
A NOAA scientist rejected global warming link to tornados stating “no specific consensus or connection between global warming and tornadic activity.”

Claim #9:
Global warming is causing hurricanes to increase in intensity and frequency.

FACT:
Geophysical Research Letters found “since 2006 tropical cyclone energy has decreased dramatically” to the lowest levels since the 1970s. Global frequency of tropical cyclones has reached a historic low.

Claim #10: G
lobal warming is leading to an increased number of droughts.

FACT:
IPCC Fifth Assessment report, previous “conclusions regarding global increasing trend in drought since the 1970s were probably overstated.”

Claim #11:
Global warming is causing sea levels to rise at a rapid pace.

FACT:
Journal of Geophysical Research found “there has been no statistically significant acceleration in sea level rise over the past 100 plus years.”

Claim #12:
97% of scientists agree global warming is manmade.

FACT:
WSJ found the 97% consensus to be predicated on “a handful of surveys and abstract-counting exercises that have been contradicted by more reliable research.”Refuting 12 Claims Made by Climate Alarmists