Understand the Facts - Discard the Hype

Climate change is a natural occurrence

Climate varies significantly because of natural causes.

The Vikings thrived in Greenland until the 14th century cold period known as the “Little Ice Age” when they abandoned settlements because of encroaching sea ice. The Little Ice age persisted until the 19th Century and immediately preceded the current warming trend.

No cause-and-effect relationship between CO2 levels and global temperatures

Twentieth century temperatures patterns do not correlate well with trends in manmade greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Most 20th century warming occurred before 1940 while most CO2 emisssion occurred after 1940.

Global temperature cooled as CO2 levels rose between 1940 to 1970.

The global cooling from 1940-1970 spawned claims of a looming ice age.

No existing model predicts future global climate change with certainty.

United Nations science is suspect 

The so-called “hockey stick” graph http://www.junkscience.com/july05/hokey.htm – relied on by the United Nations to illustrate a purported striking change in temperature during the 20th century after a millennium of supposedly relatively constant global temperature – is erroneous.

The computer program that generated the graph produces a “hockey stick” shape even when randomly-generated data is used as input.

Some of the global temperature data used in the United Nations “hockey stick” graph was extrapolated from tree rings. The global temperature data used to extrapolate part of the 15th century is based on a single tree.

The “hockey stick” fails to show well-documented historical temperature changes such as the Little Ice Age.

A Congressional Committee is investigating the validity and methodology used to create the “hockey stick” graph.