Myths about Global Warming

Myths and Facts about Global Warming:

• The “hockey stick” graph proves that the earth has experienced a steady, very gradual temperature decrease for 1000 years, then recently began a sudden increase.
  
• Human produced carbon dioxide has increased over the last 100 years, adding to the Greenhouse effect, thus warming the earth.
  
• CO2 is the most common greenhouse gas.
  
• Computer models verify that CO2 increases will cause significant global warming.
  
• The UN proved that man–made CO2 causes global warming.
  
• CO2 is a pollutant.
  
• Global warming will cause more storms and other weather extremes.
  
• Receding glaciers and the calving of ice shelves are proof of global warming.
  
• The earth’s poles are warming; polar ice caps are breaking up and melting and the sea level rising.