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Skeptical Science iPhone Reports

Here are global warming skeptic arguments ranked by how often they've been reported from the Skeptical Science iPhone app. You can download the iPhone app for free from http://itunes.com/apps/skepticalscience.

Total # of reports submitted: 8164

1		Temp record is unreliable			9.5%
2		Hockey stick is broken			6.2%
3		Climate's changed before			4.7%
4		It's the sun			4.3%
5		There's no empirical evidence			3.8%
6		1934 - hottest year on record			2.9%
7		It's cooling			2.8%
8		It's freaking cold!			2.8%
9		There is no consensus			2.7%
10		It's not bad			2.3%
11		It's a 1500 year cycle			2.2%
12		Polar bear numbers are increasing			1.9%
13		Antarctica is gaining ice			1.8%
14		It hasn't warmed since 1998			1.8%
15		We're heading into an ice age			1.8%
16		Medieval Warm Period was warmer			1.7%
17		Increasing CO2 has little to no effect			1.7%
18		Tree-rings diverge from temperature after 1960			1.5%
19		Al Gore got it wrong			1.5%
20		It's Urban Heat Island effect			1.3%
21		Ice age predicted in the 70s			1.3%
22		CO2 is not a pollutant			1.3%
23		Animals and plants can adapt			1.2%
24		Climategate CRU emails suggest conspiracy			1.2%
25		Models are unreliable			1.2%
26		Volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans			1.1%
27		Sea level rise predictions are exaggerated			1.0%
28		2009-2010 winter saw record cold spells			0.9%
29		CO2 limits will harm the economy			0.9%
30		Ice isn't melting			0.9%
31		Oceans are cooling			0.9%
32		Climate sensitivity is low			0.8%
33		Phil Jones says no global warming since 1995			0.8%
34		Greenland was green			0.8%
35		CO2 was higher in the past			0.8%
36		CO2 lags temperature			0.8%
37		We're coming out of the Little Ice Age			0.8%
38		Human CO2 is a tiny % of CO2 emissions			0.7%
39		Greenland ice sheet won't collapse			0.7%
40		Global warming stopped in 1998, 1995, 2002, 2007, 2010, ????			0.7%
41		It's microsite influences			0.7%
42		IPCC were wrong about Himalayan glaciers			0.7%
43		Water vapor is the most powerful greenhouse gas			0.6%
44		Less than half of published scientists endorse global warming			0.6%
45		Glaciers are growing			0.6%
46		Sea level rise is exaggerated			0.6%
47		Solar cycles cause global warming			0.6%
48		IPCC is alarmist			0.5%
49		Record snowfall disproves global warming			0.5%
50		The science isn't settled			0.5%
51		It's a natural cycle			0.5%
52		Arctic icemelt is a natural cycle			0.5%
53		Humans are too insignificant to affect global climate			0.5%
54		Greenland is gaining ice			0.5%
55		Renewables can't provide baseload power			0.4%
56		Scientists can't even predict weather			0.4%
57		Dropped stations introduce warming bias			0.4%
58		CO2 effect is saturated			0.4%
59		It cooled mid-century			0.4%
60		Over 31,000 scientists signed the OISM Petition Project			0.4%
61		Other planets are warming			0.4%
62		Mars is warming			0.4%
63		It's El Niño			0.4%
64		Scientists tried to 'hide the decline' in global temperature			0.3%
65		It's cosmic rays			0.3%
66		Ocean acidification isn't serious			0.3%
67		There's no correlation between CO2 and temperature			0.3%
68		CO2 only causes 35% of global warming			0.3%
69		CO2 is not the only driver of climate			0.2%
70		It's only a few degrees			0.2%
71		Extreme weather isn't caused by global warming			0.2%
72		It's methane			0.2%
73		It's a climate regime shift			0.2%
74		Melting ice isn't warming the Arctic			0.2%
75		The sun is getting hotter			0.2%
76		Naomi Oreskes' study on consensus was flawed			0.2%
77		CO2 measurements are suspect			0.2%
78		Neptune is warming			0.2%
79		IPCC were wrong about Amazon rainforests			0.2%
80		Solar Cycle Length proves its the sun			0.2%
81		Hurricanes aren't linked to global warming			0.2%
82		Lindzen and Choi find low climate sensitivity			0.2%
83		It's CFCs			0.2%
84		CO2 has a short residence time			0.2%
85		Scientists retracted claim that sea levels are rising			0.2%
86		Mt. Kilimanjaro's ice loss is due to land use			0.2%
87		Trenberth can't account for the lack of warming			0.2%
88		Jupiter is warming			0.2%
89		Arctic sea ice has recovered			0.2%
90		Pluto is warming			0.2%
91		500 scientists refute the consensus			0.2%
92		It warmed before 1940 when CO2 was low			0.2%
93		Greenhouse effect has been falsified			0.2%
94		The IPCC consensus is phoney			0.1%
95		Climate is chaotic and cannot be predicted			0.1%
96		Humidity is falling			0.1%
97		A drop in volcanic activity caused warming			0.1%
98		2nd law of thermodynamics contradicts greenhouse theory			0.1%
99		Greenland has only lost a tiny fraction of its ice mass			0.1%
100		Hansen's 1988 prediction was wrong			0.1%
101		It's Pacific Decadal Oscillation			0.1%
102		CO2 is coming from the ocean			0.1%
103		CRU tampered with temperature data			0.1%
104		Satellite error inflated Great Lakes temperatures			0.1%
105		We didn't have global warming during the Industrial Revolution			0.1%
106		It's albedo			0.1%
107		Peer review process was corrupted			0.1%
108		Springs aren't advancing			0.1%
109		Earth hasn't warmed as much as expected			0.1%
110		Water levels correlate with sunspots			0.1%
111		There's no tropospheric hot spot			0.1%
112		Satellites show no warming in the troposphere			0.1%
113		They changed the name from global warming to climate change			0.1%
114		It's aerosols			0.1%
115		It's ozone			0.1%
116		It's the ocean			0.1%
117		CO2 was higher in the late Ordovician			0.1%
118		DMI show cooling Arctic			0.1%
119		Breathing contributes to CO2 buildup			0.1%
120		It's waste heat			0.1%
121		Warming causes CO2 rise			0.1%
122		It warmed just as fast in 1860-1880 and 1910-1940			0.1%
123		It's satellite microwave transmissions			0.1%
124		Antarctica is too cold to lose ice			0.1%
125		Southern sea ice is increasing			0.1%
126		Soares finds lack of correlation between CO2 and temperature			0.1%
127		Royal Society embraces skepticism			0.0%
128		Water vapor in the stratosphere stopped global warming			0.0%
129		We're heading into cooling			0.0%
130		Ice Sheet losses are overestimated			0.0%
131		It's land use			0.0%
132		Positive feedback means runaway warming			0.0%
133		CO2 is not increasing			0.0%
134		Freedom of Information (FOI) requests were ignored			0.0%
135		Roy Spencer finds negative feedback			0.0%
136		Most of the last 10,000 years were warmer			0.0%
137		Arctic sea ice loss is matched by Antarctic sea ice gain			0.0%
138		Skeptics were kept out of the IPCC?			0.0%
139		CERN CLOUD experiment proved cosmic rays are causing global warming			0.0%
140		It's global brightening			0.0%
141		IPCC overestimate temperature rise			0.0%
142		Mauna Loa is a volcano			0.0%
143		Postma disproved the greenhouse effect			0.0%
144		Record high snow cover was set in winter 2008/2009			0.0%
145		CO2 emissions do not correlate with CO2 concentration			0.0%
146		Murry Salby finds CO2 rise is natural			0.0%

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