Claim reviews
The Antarctic ozone layer is recovering, but The Independent claim fails to grasp significance of study it relies on
CLAIM
"The ozone layer is healing"
SOURCE: Louise Boyle, The Independent
Published: 07 Apr 2020
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Deforestation can facilitate the emergence and spread of some infectious diseases
CLAIM
"Deforestation has made humans more vulnerable to pandemics"
SOURCE: Lani Chan and Tom McKenna, Now This
Published: 01 Apr 2020
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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: Willis Eschenbach, Watts Up With That?
Published: 01 Apr 2020
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Temperature trends in the U.S. are consistent with warming around the world, contrary to Electroverse claim
CLAIM
"Historical data of temperature in the U.S. destroys global warming myth"
SOURCE: Cap Allon, Electroverse
Published: 24 Mar 2020
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CO2 can increase plant growth in greenhouses while also negatively affecting ecosystems and human societies
CLAIM
"CO2 is a plant nutrient...it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization. If CO2 was so terrible for the planet, then installing a CO2 generator in a greenhouse would kill the plants."
SOURCE: Mike Adams, Natural News
Published: 19 Mar 2020
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Electroverse article incorrectly claims the Sun is behind climate change
CLAIM
"the IPCC is wrong − the sun, not CO2, drove modern global warming"
SOURCE: Roger Higgs, Electroverse
Published: 18 Mar 2020
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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: Thomas Lifson, American Thinker
Published: 12 Mar 2020
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Data from glaciers around the world show most are shrinking as a consequence of global warming
CLAIM
"90 percent of the world’s glaciers are growing."
SOURCE: IceAgeNow, Principia Scientific International
Published: 26 Feb 2020
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Current climate warming is rapid and occurring on a global scale, unlike past periods of regional climate fluctuations
CLAIM
"Of course the climate is changing. It always has. It always will."
SOURCE: Patrick Moore, PragerU
Published: 21 Feb 2020
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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: Vicki Batts, James Delingpole, Signs of the Times, Breitbart
Published: 20 Feb 2020
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