Claim reviews
Prediction by Extinction Rebellion’s Roger Hallam that climate change will kill 6 billion people by 2100 is unsupported
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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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Rick Perry’s claim that US is “leading the world” in emission cuts is misleading
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I think about all the 194 [countries] that signed onto the Paris accord, the U.S. is the one that's leading the world in reducing emissions
SOURCE: Rick Perry, Fox News
Published: 20 Aug 2019
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CO2 caused warming during past climate changes, notably as a feedback amplifying other factors
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CO2 does not cause climate change, it RESPONDS to it [...] temperature always changes first, and CO2 follows
SOURCE: Robert W. Felix, William Happer, Ice Age Now
Published: 14 Aug 2019
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Claim that cosmic rays are a crucial player for current climate change is unsupported
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Based on the increase of solar activity during the twentieth century, it should account for between half to two-thirds of all climate change
SOURCE: Cap Allon, Nir Shaviv, Electroverse
Published: 13 Aug 2019
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Express article falsely warns of a solar-induced “ice age”
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The current solar minimum could last for more than three decades which could lead to temperatures plummeting across the globe, scientists have warned.
SOURCE: Sean Martin, Express
Published: 06 Aug 2019
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Research does not show a Medieval Warm Period warmer than the present day
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18 proxies tell us the world was the same or warmer 1,000 years ago
SOURCE: Joanne Nova, joannenova.com.au
Published: 05 Aug 2019
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Hosted by former Australian senator, Tony Heller repeats false claim that scientists fake the warming trend
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[T]he raw data, the actual thermometer data[...] shows that the US has been cooling for 80 to 90 years. But the graphs they release to the public show warming trend, and it's all because they've altered the data.
SOURCE: Tony Heller, EXOMATRIXTV
Published: 05 Aug 2019
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Data shows the Earth is currently warmer globally than at any time in the past 2,000 years
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Earth’s mean temperature over the last 2,000 years shows two previous periods when temperatures were warmer than they are now; from 1–200 A.D., an epoch called the Roman Warm Period, and more recently the Medieval Warm Period from 900–1100 A.D.
SOURCE: Gregory Rummo, Townhall
Published: 26 Jul 2019
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Sky News Australia interview falsely claims that global cooling is coming soon
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the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is misleading humanity about climate change and sea levels, and that in fact a new solar-driven cooling period is not far off
SOURCE: Alan Jones, Nils Axel-Mörner, Sky News Australia
Published: 18 Jul 2019
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Non-peer-reviewed manuscript falsely claims natural cloud changes can explain global warming
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During the last hundred years the temperature is increased about 0.1°C because of carbon dioxide. The human contribution was about 0.01°C.
SOURCE: Jyrki Kauppinen, Pekka Malmi, Paul Joseph Watson, Summit.news, Zerohedge
Published: 12 Jul 2019
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