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Climate change

United Nations • Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.

2. Climate Change -- the objections

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This video, the second in the series, looks at alternative hypotheses explaining global warming. I am only looking at alternative hypotheses put forward by real, professional climate researchers, and the findings of real, professional climate researchers who disagree with them. Yes, I've left a lot of the detail out. This is a 10-minute video summarizing the arguments and counter-arguments, not a PhD thesis. The comments forum will be free and open, as always, but if you disagree with what real, professional climate scientists say, please take it up with them and dont expect me to defend their point of view. If you have a stunning piece of scientific evidence that disproves one side or the other, dont waste time on my channel, write a paper, and get it peer-reviewed and published in a reputable journal. PLEASE NOTE -- ERROR -- I quoted from an Oreskes Paper and incorrectly stated that nearly 700 papers "explicitely endorsed the view that man- …...more
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2. Climate Change -- the objections
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This video, the second in the series, looks at alternative hypotheses explaining global warming. I am only looking at alternative hypotheses put forward by real, professional climate researchers, and the findings of real, professional climate researchers who disagree with them. Yes, I've left a lot of the detail out. This is a 10-minute video summarizing the arguments and counter-arguments, not a PhD thesis. The comments forum will be free and open, as always, but if you disagree with what real, professional climate scientists say, please take it up with them and dont expect me to defend their point of view. If you have a stunning piece of scientific evidence that disproves one side or the other, dont waste time on my channel, write a paper, and get it peer-reviewed and published in a reputable journal. PLEASE NOTE -- ERROR -- I quoted from an Oreskes Paper and incorrectly stated that nearly 700 papers "explicitely endorsed the view that man-made gases are responsible. This should read that these papers "explicitly or implicity endorsed the view that man-made gases are responsible." The papers that "implicitly" implied it were those that dealt with effects or mitigation measures. The original should not have been in quotation marks either. My apologies for the error.

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1. Climate Change -- the scientific debate

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2. Climate Change -- the objections

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3 - Climate Change -- Anatomy of a myth

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4 - Climate Change -- Gore vs. Durkin

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5. Climate Change -- isn't it natural?

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6. Climate Change -- Those hacked e-mails

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7. Climate Change - "Those" e-mails and science censorship

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8. Climate Change -- Has the Earth been cooling?

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8a. Climate Change - Phil Jones and the 'no warming for 15 years'

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9. Climate Change - Meet the Scientists

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10. Climate Change - An imminent ice age debunked

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11. Climate Change -- Hurricanes, atolls and coral

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11a. Sources for my last video

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12 - 'Doubled CO2 means just 1.64 degrees of warming...' or maybe not.

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13 - Misleading media reports on sea level rise - a case study

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14 - BP oil spills and an end to snow

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Monckton Bunkum Part 1 - Global cooling and melting ice

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Monckton Bunkum Part 2 - Sensitivity

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Monckton Bunkum Part 3 - Correlations and Himalayan glaciers

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Monckton Bunkum Part 4 -- Quotes and misquotes

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Monckton bunkum Part 5 -- What, MORE errors, my lord?

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20 - Are cosmic rays causing global warming?

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21 - "Earth facing mini-ice age!!" say the media. Now for the science....

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22 -- Climategate mark 2 -- the quotes and the context

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23 -- Medieval Warm Period -- fact vs. fiction

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24 - Global warming has stopped? Again??

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Does CO2 lead or lag global temperature?

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26 -- Science vs. the Feelies

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27 -- The evidence for climate change WITHOUT computer models or the IPCC

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27a -- Sources for my last video "Evidence for Climate Change WITHOUT computer models...."

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28 - The consequences of climate change (in our lifetimes)

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Why global temperatures never go up in straight lines

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Response to "The Global Warming Hoax Lord Monckton & Stefan Molyneux"

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Response to "DEBUNKED: Top 5 "Climate Change" Myths" by Louder with Crowder

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Are humans contributing only 3% of CO2 in the atmosphere?

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Did NOAA fake temperature data? -- fact check

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Did scientists REALLY just admit to exaggerating global warming?

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Himalayan glaciers -- "no melt in 10 years"

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Top 10 climate change myths

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A conservative solution to global warming - part 2

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A CONSERVATIVE solution to global warming (Part 1)

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Have 400 papers just DEBUNKED global warming?

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Latest nonsense claim -- Earth's climate sensitivity is trending towards zero

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Response to Bill Whittle's "Is climate change real?"

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Latest claim: The Greenland ice sheet is growing

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The latest climate error from Steve Crowder

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How accurate are scientific predictions about climate?

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'The Maldives Mystery' resolved

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Maldives mystery 2nd response

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Of course the world isn't ending in 12 years

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What's happening to Greenland's most enigmatic glacier?

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The cause of Australia’s bushfires – what the SCIENCE says

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A short chronology of failed 'ice age' predictions

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Are we headed for a Grand Solar Minimum?

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Response to Patrick Moore's "What They Haven't Told You about Climate Change”

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A clean energy solution embraced by both sides of politics

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If ocean levels are rising, why can't we see it?

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Are prominent environmentalists buying beachside properties?

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A close look at Roy Spencer's claims on global warming

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Do volcanoes produce more CO2 than human activity? -- a look at Ian Plimer's claim.

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What the new “Climate Declaration” doesn't tell us (nudge nudge, wink wink)

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This 4-minute video got climate 'skeptics' very excited (and doesn't say what they think it says!)

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Was the climate 'better' during the age of the dinosaurs? (More climate “facts” bite the dust.)

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'Top CO2 facts' -- Is CO2 really plant food?

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'Top CO2 facts' -- How much and how little CO2 is "plant food."

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Scientific consensus and arguments from authority

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'Thrown to the wind' -- are wind farms really killing whales?

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My discussion with John Robson in full -- (the one he doesn't want you to see!)

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Is Arctic ice rebounding? -- How I got CDN to finally issue a correction!

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All the errors and fakery from “Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth)” that I can fit in.

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Could this be the stupidest politician in Australia?

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