The New Scientist’s feature’s editor, Michael Le Page, writes on the mag’s website today that while climate change is complicated “what does not help is for the real issues to be muddied by discredited arguments or wild theories.” Hence the magazine has put together an organized list of what it regards as myths and misconceptions re global warming etc., and their rebuttals.

It’s a sensible and sound effort. Some of it gets a bit murky, it seems to The Tracker. I have yet to read a sufficiently clear refutation of the canard that, because ice ages tended to start warming up before CO2 levels rose, greenhouse gases don’t cause warmings. This one makes a good effort. It still seems unlikely to dent the confusion (or determination to be confused) by many members of the public on that one score. Nonetheless the package is a service. (Pic – not from N.Scientist – hi res here.

It’s all here.

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