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What do you believe is the most common misconception about climate change

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(and don't say that it is/isn't real)

anyone misunderstood something in the past themselves.

the reason that i ask is that i have seen people make quite, well imaginative statements.

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  1. That if it is true then it must get warmer everywhere, all the time.


  2. The most common misconception is that the sun is responsible. This argument is always #1 of any list of common arguments by the deniers.[1]

    Of course they are confusing the fact that, while the sun is responsible for 99.9% of the warmth on earth, it is not responsible for the increase in recent warmth.

    A close tie would be that our recent climate change is simply a "natural cycle". Why is it that they never identify the "natural cycle" or its cause? I think that "natural cycle" is a catch phrase for the religious fringe who believes that the apocalypse is now upon us.

  3. That climate change has anything to do with man, and that we are arrogant enough to believe that we could change natural events.

    I have to admit that I do not understand the last part of your question/statement however.

  4. likely that,  "if it happened before, and we weren't responsible then we can't / aren't responsible this time."

  5. That there is a raging debate in the science community over whether mankind is causing it.

  6. 1) That humans cause it.

    2) That the ice caps are melting.

    3) That polar bears are dying.

    4) That there will be massive flooding.


  7. I think the most common misconception is that we don't need nuclear power to solve it.

    Misconceptions on how it works (or what is causing it) seem to be very rare with most people accepting that it is us humans that cause it (although people who think the ozone hole is more than distantly related to global warming are depressingly common).

  8. The words "climate change". You can make any imaginative statement about those words, like "kaleidoscope pattern".

  9. The most common misconception about "Climate Change" is that it is synonymous with the term "Global Warming". It is not. "Climate Change" implies the possibility of global cooling which is antithetical to the purported scientific basis of "Global Warming", i.e., the greenhouse effect. Therefore, the use of the term "Climate Change" by anthropogenic global warming proponents actually negates their own scientific basis for the phenomenon.

  10. that it is only our fault that the weather is changing. It does this it needs to cycle too. Yea i believe we are helping it to speed up a little but it is not strictly our fault that it is changing some

  11. The most common misconception is that guys like Tim Ball and Fred Singer know what they are talking about and that guys like Jim Hansen and Tom Wigley don't.  

  12. The most common misconception would be the categorization of CO2 as a driving force of climate change when all evidence proves it lags climate change by 800 years (whether the climate is warming OR cooling).

  13. The Earth goes through natural climatic cycles--  I think we're going through one now.  We can't change the natural cycles of the Earth.  

  14. It may be that when you talk about "climate change" that you are automatically talking about global warming. And when you talk about GW you are talking about mans CO2 contribution to recent warming of the planet.

    It has become an interesting, and amusing political drama, with so called experts on each side saying we should be spending millions to correct it.  (as if we could)

    In actuallity, the raising price of oil, has done more to reduce man made CO2 emmisions then any politicial has been able to dream up.

  15. That it is some kind of world wide hoax!  

  16. One that was deliberately disseminated: the Hockey Stick

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