Claim reviews
Claim of a coming ice age misrepresents the study it relies on
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"Scientists studying Antarctica sea ice warn a rise in accumulation could spark the next ice age."
SOURCE: Stacy Liberatore, Chris Ciaccia, Daily Mail, Fox News
Published: 01 Nov 2019
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Human activities release far more carbon dioxide than volcanoes do
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"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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Letter to the UN was not signed by 500 scientists or experts on climate science
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"500 Scientists Write U.N.: ‘There Is No Climate Emergency’.... More than 500 scientists and professionals in climate and related fields have sent a 'European Climate Declaration' to the Secretary-General of the United Nations"
SOURCE: Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart
Published: 30 Oct 2019
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Photo meme of Sydney Harbour incorrectly claims no sea level rise has occurred
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"Unprecedented climate change has caused sea level at Sydney Harbour to rise approximately 0.0 cm over the past 140 years."
SOURCE: Anonymous, Facebook post
Published: 28 Oct 2019
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2°C is not known to be a “point of no return”, as Jonathan Franzen claims
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"The consensus among scientists and policy-makers is that we’ll pass this point of no return if the global mean temperature rises by more than two degrees Celsius"
SOURCE: Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker
Published: 17 Sep 2019
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There is overwhelming evidence that current climate change is significantly caused by human carbon emissions contrary to claim in Townhall
CLAIM
"Human-produced carbon might be one of the factors [of climate change], but there’s simply no evidence that it is a significant one."
SOURCE: Kurt Schlichter, Townhall
Published: 11 Sep 2019
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Claim that the Earth has cooled since Medieval or Roman times is contradicted by available data
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"Peer-reviewed studies, geologic records, and all the studies have shown that we have actually cooled since the Roman Warming Period, and likely since the Medieval Warming Period."
SOURCE: Marc Morano, TFP Student Action
Published: 09 Sep 2019
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Claim of no US warming since 2005 is directly contradicted by the data it is based on
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"the U.S. Climate Reference Network[...] finds there has been no warming for the past 14 years at least"
SOURCE: James Taylor, John Hinderaker, WND, Powerlineblog, Real Clear Energy
Published: 06 Sep 2019
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Earth’s orbit cannot explain modern climate change
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"changes in the solar orbit of the earth, along with alterations to the earth’s axial tilt, are both responsible for what climate scientists today have dubbed as “warming”[...]. In no way, shape, or form are humans warming or cooling the planet"
SOURCE: Ethan Huff, Natural News
Published: 03 Sep 2019
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Prediction by Extinction Rebellion’s Roger Hallam that climate change will kill 6 billion people by 2100 is unsupported
CLAIM
"I am talking about the slaughter, death, and starvation of 6 billion people this century—that's what the science predicts."
SOURCE: Roger Hallam, BBC News
Published: 22 Aug 2019
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