26 climate-change myths

Here is a great article from the New Scientist which lists details on the twenty-six most common climate myths and misconceptions link. These are:

1. Human CO2 emissions are too tiny to matter
2. We can’t do anything about climate change
3. The ‘hockey stick’ graph has been proven wrong
4. Chaotic systems are not predictable
5. We can’t trust computer models of climate
6. They predicted global cooling in the 1970s
7. It’s been far warmer in the past, what’s the big deal?
8. It’s too cold where I live - warming will be great
9. Global warming is down to the Sun, not humans
10. It’s all down to cosmic rays
11. CO2 isn’t the most important greenhouse gas
12. The lower atmosphere is cooling, not warming
13. Antarctica is getting cooler, not warmer, disproving global warming
14. The oceans are cooling
15. The cooling after 1940 shows CO2 does not cause warming
16. It was warmer during the Medieval period, with vineyards in England
17. We are simply recovering from the Little Ice Age
18. Warming will cause an ice age in Europe
19. Ice cores show CO2 increases lag behind temperature rises, disproving the link to global warming
20. Ice cores show CO2 rising as temperatures fell
21. Mars and Pluto are warming too
22. Many leading scientists question climate change
23. It’s all a conspiracy
24. Hurricane Katrina was caused by global warming
25. Higher CO2 levels will boost plant growth and food production
26. Polar bear numbers are increasing