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Posted on: 2022-02-24
Wall Street Journal op-ed by Steven Koonin publishes misleading claims about how climate change influences Greenland ice melt

Human-caused climate change is already accelerating Greenland’s melting and is predicted to continue to accelerate it in the future. In addition to Greenland, most glaciers around the planet are also melting at an accelerating pace. This melt, in addition to the expansion of the ocean as it warms, contributes to elevate sea level at an accelerating rate, threatening coastal cities around the globe.
Posted on: 2021-11-10

Marc Thiessen’s column in The Washington Post relies on incorrect and cherry-picked claims by Bjorn Lomborg; scientists provide needed context

Thiessen repeated a large number of Lomborg’s claims in his article without fact-checking or verifying these claims by consulting with scientists who actually have expertise on these topics. Unlike scientists, Lomborg writes books and social media posts about a variety of topics, but he does not submit scientific research on these topics to peer-reviewed journals. If Thiessen lacks the scientific knowledge to challenge Lomborg’s claims, he could have done what professional journalists do: reach out to experts to gain insight from them.
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- Climate
Posted on: 2021-05-03
Wall Street Journal article repeats multiple incorrect and misleading claims made in Steven Koonin’s new book ’Unsettled’

Scientists who reviewed the article found that it builds on a collection of misleading and false claims. For instance, Koonin states that “Greenland’s ice sheet isn’t shrinking any more rapidly today than it was eighty years ago”. Contrary to the claim, scientific studies using airborne and satellite altimetry observations show considerable thinning has occurred along the margin of the Greenland ice sheet since 2003.
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- Climate
Posted on: 2021-04-21
Video promoted by John Stossel for Earth Day relies on incorrect and misleading claims about climate change

“This video is misleading in so many ways it’s hard to know where to begin. For a start there’s a repeated assertion that climate “alarmists” won’t enter debate on climate change, but there are many examples of renowned climate scientists such as Gavin Schmidt, Michael Mann and David Karoly entering into debates with climate change denialists. Many scientists have found such debates to be unhelpful as they give the false impression of balance despite there being broad consensus among climate scientists…”
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- Climate
Posted on: 2021-03-03
Scientists didn’t announce impending environmental catastrophes every decade since the 1970s

Claim:

Science said in the: 70s, another ice age in 10 years; 80s, acid rain will destroy all crops in 10 years; 90s: the ozone layer will be destroyed in 10 years; 2000’s the ice caps will be gone on 10 years

Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2021-02-20
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- Climate
Posted on: 2021-01-15
Rates of global sea level rise have accelerated since 1900, contrary to bloggers’ claims

Claim:

“there has not been a long-term distinctive change in sea level rise rates in the last 120 years”

Source: NoTricksZone, Watts Up With That?, Kenneth Richard, Pierre L. Gosselin, 2021-01-11
Inaccurate
- Climate
Posted on: 2020-04-01
Global data contradict claim of no acceleration in sea level rise

Claim:

The long-term tide gauge datasets are all in agreement that there is no acceleration

Source: Watts Up With That?, Willis Eschenbach, 2020-03-08
Inaccurate
- Climate
Posted on: 2020-03-12
Sea levels rose faster in the past century than in previous time periods

Claim:

Sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization

Source: American Thinker, Thomas Lifson, 2020-03-07
Inaccurate
- Climate
Posted on: 2020-02-20
Sea levels have risen throughout the 20th century, contrary to claim in online articles

Claim:

Scientists were caught 'adjusting' sea level data to create false impression of rising oceans

Source: Breitbart, Signs of the Times, James Delingpole, Vicki Batts, 2019-05-28
Incorrect
- Climate
Posted on: 2019-12-17
Ice cube meme misrepresents physics of sea level rise to claim melting ice has no effect

Claim:

[Photo] A little science lesson for the #idiots at the global warming conference. Ice berg melts, ocean level remains the same.

Source: Facebook, Anonymous, 2019-12-11

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Wall Street Journal op-ed by Steven Koonin publishes misleading claims about how climate change influences Greenland ice melt

Marc Thiessen’s column in The Washington Post relies on incorrect and cherry-picked claims by Bjorn Lomborg; scientists provide needed context

Wall Street Journal article repeats multiple incorrect and misleading claims made in Steven Koonin’s new book ’Unsettled’

Video promoted by John Stossel for Earth Day relies on incorrect and misleading claims about climate change

Scientists didn’t announce impending environmental catastrophes every decade since the 1970s

Rates of global sea level rise have accelerated since 1900, contrary to bloggers’ claims

Global data contradict claim of no acceleration in sea level rise

Sea levels rose faster in the past century than in previous time periods

Sea levels have risen throughout the 20th century, contrary to claim in online articles

Ice cube meme misrepresents physics of sea level rise to claim melting ice has no effect

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