Quick AGW Facts for Sceptics

If you are going to arm yourselves to debate with a 'Believer' you should have the following at hand:

Does adding Co2 to the air make the Earth warmer?

This is the basis for CO2 caps, the ETS and the rabid anti-CO2 push from everywhere. It has also allowed Believers to get the money and power.

1. If CO2 as a greenhouse gas is responsible then the computer models predict a "hot spot" The predicted spot has not been detected.

2. Proper analysis of ice cores shows an 800 year delay between temperature changes and CO2 concentrations changing. More importantly temperatures rise, then CO2 levels increase.

3. CO2 is rising at the moment but temperatures are not, this from reliable satellite data.

4. In the past , when CO2 levels were much higher, the Earth experienced Ice Ages. Adding Co2 to the atmosphere now has far less effect, i.e. doubling does not double the effect, it is a logarithmic scale.

These four facts are enough. AGW Believers will argue that ground based stations show a different picture. Ground based station data is not only unreliable but it comes from GISS and that has been shown to be deliberately manipulated information.

Anything else like ice melting, polar bears drowning, glaciers retreating, sea levels rising are all effects not causes. The root of the whole argument is CO2 and there is no scientific evidence to show a link between CO2 and climate as far as AGW.

Reality does not match the models so it must be something else. In the four points made above it is not Co2 so it must be something else. Scientists have theories about what this might be e.g. a combination of solar and cosmic radiation and changes in the Earth's magnetic field for example. The key point is that it is not CO2.

When you take CO2 out of the equation all that is left is money and power two factors that have ruled the world for as long as there has been both.