Claim reviews
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
VERDICT
Climate change is one factor affecting how fires in Australia burn, regardless of whether arsonists or lightning started them
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the bushfires [in Australia] were caused by arsonists and a series of lightning strikes, not 'climate change'
SOURCE: Sean Adl-Tabatabai, Thomas D. Williams, NewsPunch, Breitbart
Published: 08 Jan 2020
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Volcanic CO2 emissions are known to be much smaller than human-caused emissions
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Discovery Of Massive Volcanic CO2 Emissions Discredits Global Warming Theory
SOURCE: James Edward Kamis, Principia Scientific
Published: 03 Jan 2020
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Article falsely attributes invented quotes to James Hansen
CLAIM
Father of Global Warming’ Scientist Finally Admits Theory Is Wrong
SOURCE: Baxter Dmitry, NewsPunch, Your News Wire, Principia Scientific
Published: 01 Jan 2020
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False claim that wind turbines generate more global warming than fossil fuels misrepresents study it relies on
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Harvard study finds that wind turbines create MORE global warming than the fossil fuels they eliminate
SOURCE: Ethan Huff, Ecology.news
Published: 23 Dec 2019
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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: Anonymous, Facebook
Published: 17 Dec 2019
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1977 “coming ice age” Time magazine cover is a fake
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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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Bedrock heat flow studies made no claim contradicting human-caused melting of glaciers
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[A] series of just-released studies by working-level scientists prove that geological and not atmospheric forces are responsible for melting of Earth’s polar ice sheets.
SOURCE: James Edward Kamis, Climate Change Dispatch
Published: 22 Nov 2019
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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
VERDICT
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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