Reviews of articles by: Anonymous

ARTICLE REVIEWS

Investor’s Business Daily editorial misrepresents study to claim plants will prevent dangerous climate change

in Investors' Business Daily, by Anonymous

“Our nitrogen study does not detract from the urgency of the climate problem, nor the unequivocal evidence of the role of carbon pollution in causing global climate change. The climate threat is clear and present and we must solve it rapidly by reducing emissions and capturing existing CO2 from the atmosphere.”

— 12 Apr 2018


CLAIM REVIEWS

No device can plug into your car’s fusebox to improve engine efficiency and turn it into a hybrid

CLAIM
Plugging this device into a car’s fuse box can reduce fuel consumption by at least 35% and up to 75% by converting the car into a hybrid.

SOURCE: Anonymous, Christianity Today

Published: 05 May 2021

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A “water-powered” car still requires other forms of fuel to work; it cannot run solely on water, contrary to viral Facebook video claims

CLAIM
There exists a car that runs solely on water

SOURCE: Anonymous, Gaia

Published: 15 Mar 2021

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The scientific research facility HAARP cannot create natural disasters or influence human thoughts and movements, contrary to online claims

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HAARP may deliberately create destruction on a global scale, causing earthquakes, cyclones, flooding, snowstorms, around the world; HAARP may be attacking the citizens of the world telepathically, influencing thoughts with low frequency vibrations

SOURCE: Anonymous, Gaia

Published: 02 Mar 2021

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Video advertising “Powersave” device is misleading and makes impossible home power savings claims

CLAIM
A young whizkid [...] invented a device that cuts 50% off an average home’s power bill

SOURCE: Anonymous, HOVERH

Published: 27 Dec 2020

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The global polar bear population is threatened by loss of sea ice, contrary to PragerU’s video claim

CLAIM
The polar bear population has been growing. Polar bears are thriving even where sea ice is diminishing.

SOURCE: Anonymous, PragerU

Published: 18 May 2020

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NOAA does not fraudulently adjust data to create the illusion of a global warming trend

CLAIM
Using complex statistical models, [NOAA] change[s] the data to reflect not reality, but their underlying theories of global warming.

SOURCE: Anonymous, Investor's Business Daily

Published: 19 Feb 2020

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Facebook meme incorrectly claims past climate variations contradict human influence on current climate

CLAIM
The idea that 'climate change' is new or is caused by Humans is nonsense.

SOURCE: Anonymous, Facebook

Published: 13 Jan 2020

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

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

SOURCE: Anonymous, Facebook

Published: 17 Dec 2019

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1977 “coming ice age” Time magazine cover is a fake

CLAIM
When the exact same group of 'experts' who claimed it was global cooling in 1977 now claim it's global warming you can easily see why I am skeptical

SOURCE: Anonymous, Facebook

Published: 16 Dec 2019

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Human activities release far more carbon dioxide than volcanoes do

CLAIM
That one little burp by Mt. Etna has already put more than 10,000 times the CO2 into the atmosphere than mankind has in our entire time on the Earth

SOURCE: Anonymous, Facebook post

Published: 31 Oct 2019

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