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=="Global Warming Skeptics"==
Originally meaning "climate change skeptics" or "anthropogenic (human-induced) global warming skeptics", "global warming skeptics" referred to those who are as yet unconvinced by evidence that emissions of man-made CO2 significantly enhance the natural atmospheric greenhouse effect.
In this label, Since then the more accurate term "skeptic" is a misnomer and considered to be a black eye on true skeptics''denier'' has become universally used.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Skepticblog|title=What, If Anything, Can Skeptics Say About Science?|url=http://skepticblog.org/2009/12/22/what-if-anything-can-skeptics-say-about-science/|accessdate=2011-04-04|author=Daniel Loxton|date=2009-12-22}}</ref>
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}}</ref> According to Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists, "We don't call them skeptics, because they are not putting forward alternatives ideas and having them tested in peer review journals. They basically deny this problem."<ref name="skep-no">{{cite web |url=http://news.yahoo.com/un-climate-report-not-sway-us-deniers-020716658.html |title=UN climate report will not sway US deniers |accessdate=2013-09-22 |publisher=AFP |author=Jean-Louis Santini |year=2013 |month=September}}</ref>
==Evolution of Meaning==
Originally denoted "climate change ''skeptics''" or "anthropogenic (human-induced) global warming ''skeptics''", the term referred to those who are as yet unconvinced by evidence that emissions of man-made CO2 significantly enhance the natural atmospheric greenhouse effect. But the accumulation of evidence,<ref>{{cite web|publisher=skepticalscience.com|title=Empirical evidence that humans are causing global warming|url=http://www.skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-global-warming.htm|accessdate=2011-04-04|author=John Cook|date=2010-06-26}}</ref> led to a near-total scientific consensus.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=skepticalscience.com|title=How many climate scientists are climate skeptics?|url=http://www.skepticalscience.com/How-many-climate-scientists-are-climate-skeptics.html|accessdate=2011-04-04|author=John Cook|date=2010-06-22}}</ref> In this label, the term "skeptic" is a misnomer and considered to be a black eye on true skeptics.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Skepticblog |title=What, If Anything, Can Skeptics Say About Science? |url=http://skepticblog.org/2009/12/22/what-if-anything-can-skeptics-say-about-science/ |accessdate=2011-04-04 |author=Daniel Loxton |date=2009-12-22 }}</ref>
==Most Common Climate Change Denial Arguments==
