Claim reviews
Temperatures on Earth are increasing and the rise is drastically outpacing previous natural changes in the planet’s climate
CLAIM
“We have been cooling down for the past 4000 years”; the Earth has cooled since the ‘medieval warming’, “It’s all about when you start the measurements”
SOURCE: Ian Plimer, Media Research Center
Published: 15 May 2023
VERDICT
The Antarctic’s ice coverage is not increasing to record levels, nor is the continent getting colder, contrary to Curry and Easterbrook claims in CFACT movie
CLAIM
Antarctic sea-ice extent is increasing to record levels. Antarctica is getting colder; its sea ice and ice cap are not melting
SOURCE: Judith Curry and Don Easterbrook, CFACT
Published: 28 Apr 2023
VERDICT
The strands of cloud seen behind aeroplanes are trails of condensed water known as contrails, they are not chemtrails as some believe
CLAIM
Chemtrails contain toxic substances such as barium salts that are 10 thousand times more toxic to your nervous system than lead
SOURCE: William Deagle, Facebook
Published: 06 Apr 2023
VERDICT
Pre-human changes in climate do not negate contemporary human influence on modern warming, contrary to implication in popular Instagram post
CLAIM
Climate changed naturally in prehistoric eras, modern climate change is a naturally occurring phenomenon
SOURCE: Social media user, Instagram
Published: 23 Jan 2023
VERDICT
Link between CO2 and Earth’s temperature is well-established, despite claims on Fox News
CLAIM
Scientists have found no consistent correlation between CO2 and temperature; scientists do not know whether earth will warm or cool in future
SOURCE: Tom Harris , Fox News
Published: 18 Oct 2022
VERDICT
Scientists have found that modern climate change is caused entirely by human activity, contrary to recent speculation by Joe Rogan
CLAIM
“The question is, ‘how much of an impact do we have on [climate]?’ That has not totally been quantified”; climate change is happening anyway, “The ice age happened without us…It’s probably this constant cycle”.
SOURCE: Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience
Published: 11 Oct 2022
VERDICT
The Epoch Times prints a range of inaccurate and misleading claims about climate change’s impacts and causes
CLAIM
CO2 is not the cause of our current warming trend; Arctic sea ice has expanded in recent years; Polar bears’ population is growing and is not threatened by climate change; CO2 is good for plant life
SOURCE: Patrick Moore, The Epoch Times
Published: 20 Sep 2022
VERDICT
Scientific evidence indicates that modern warming is driven by CO2, contrary to Richard Lindzen’s claim
CLAIM
“Believing CO2 controls the climate is pretty close to believing in magic.”
SOURCE: Richard Lindzen, Climate Change is Crap
Published: 02 Sep 2022
VERDICT
Letter stating there is “no climate emergency” repeats inaccurate claims about climate science
CLAIM
“Natural variation explains a substantial part of global warming observed since 1850;” no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying natural disasters, or making them more frequent.
SOURCE: Toby Young, Daily Sceptic
Published: 24 Aug 2022
VERDICT
Carbon dioxide emissions by humans are the major driver of modern climate change, contrary to Jerome Corsi’s claims in CBN News video
CLAIM
Carbon dioxide is not a climate heat driver; we had an ice age when the Earth had extraordinarily larger amounts of carbon dioxide; in the 1970s scientists thought we were going to have a new ice age.
SOURCE: Jerome Corsi, CBN News
Published: 05 Aug 2022
VERDICT