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Pierre Friedlingstein
Professor, University of Exeter
Expertise: Climate change, Carbon cycle, Ecosystems
Details:
Hypothesis handle: p.friedlingstein
Qualifying publication(s): see criteria
ARTICLES REVIEWED
Daily Wire article misunderstands study on carbon budget (along with Fox News, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Breitbart…)
in The Daily Wire, by James Barrett
— 21 Sep 2017
"The article selectively quotes from interviews and scientific papers to create the false perception that climate models significantly overestimate the rate of warming. The article..
Scientists explain what New York Magazine article on “The Uninhabitable Earth” gets wrong
in New York Magazine, by David Wallace-Wells
— 12 Jul 2017
"While it is clear that ongoing warming of the global climate would eventually have very severe consequences, the concept of the Earth becoming uninhabitable within anywhere near t..
Playing semantics, misleading Breitbart article downplays US contribution to climate change
in Breitbart, by Thomas D. Williams
— 06 Jun 2017
"This whole post is based on semantics and basically one big strawman fallacy. The author is deliberately confusing air pollution from suspended particulate matter (as discussed in..
ThinkProgress story on thawing Alaskan tundra generally accurate but somewhat misleading
in Think Progress, by Joe Romm
— 19 May 2017
"The writing is a bit over the top, but factually correct in general. The main weakness is in linking the solidly evidence-based observed changes from the Commane et al paper with ..
Analysis of “Thanks to climate change, the Arctic is turning green”
in The Washington Post, by Chris Mooney
— 04 Jul 2016
"The article reports about recent evidence that terrestrial ecosystems are 'greening' in response to human activities, principally the increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration. The..
Analysis of “…in many ways global warming will be a good thing”
in The Telegraph, by Bjorn Lomborg
— 09 May 2016
"This article presents a highly biased view of global warming, only presenting the “positive” aspects of it. As the author is criticizing media doing the opposite (always showi..
CLAIMS REVIEWED
Scientific studies established clear links between human-caused increased in atmospheric CO2 and global warming
CLAIM
“It’s a good thing that we are putting some more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The scientific method has not been applied in such a way as to prove that carbon dioxide is causing the Earth to warm.”
SOURCE: Patrick Moore, Instagram
Published: 18 Dec 2020
VERDICT
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
VERDICT
Daily Wire article incorrectly claims climate models have overestimated warming
CLAIM
climate models have overestimated the amount of global warming and failed to predict what climatologists call the warming ‘hiatus’
SOURCE: James Barrett, The Daily Wire
Published: 22 Sep 2017
VERDICT
In CNN interview, William Happer incorrectly claims temperatures don’t match climate model projections
CLAIM
The temperature is not rising nearly as fast as the alarmist computer models predicted. You know, it’s much, much less, factors of 2 or 3 less.
SOURCE: William Happer, CNN
Published: 25 Apr 2017
VERDICT
In CNN interview, William Happer misleads about the impact of rising carbon dioxide on plant life
CLAIM
there's this myth that's developed around carbon dioxide that it's a pollutant […] Carbon dioxide is a perfectly natural gas, it’s just like water vapor, it’s something that plants love.
SOURCE: William Happer, CNN
Published: 25 Apr 2017
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