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Warming Myths Debunked

Lord Christopher Monckton, former science advisor to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, brought the conference to a close with a standing ovation as he identified many of the deliberately misleading myths about climate change propagated by warming alarmists:

• “Global warming is happening now”—it’s actually cooling.
  
  
• “Global warming is getting worse”—it’s actually getting better.
  
  
• “Arctic sea ice is disappearing”—in fact there is no discernible trend in winter sea ice area over the past 30 years.
  
  
• “Antarctic sea ice is disappearing”—in fact the area of sea ice around Antarctica reached a 30-year record high in 2007.
  
  
• “The Great Barrier Reef is being damaged by global warming”—actually there is no trend in the sea surface temperature of the reef over the past 40 years.
  
• “Hurricanes are being made worse by global warming”—on the contrary, the accumulated cyclone energy index in October 2008 was at its lowest recorded value in the past 30 years