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Timothy Osborn

Professor, University of East Anglia, and Director of Research, Climatic Research Unit

Expertise: Instrumental record, Climate projections, Natural climate variability

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publication   http://www.earth-syst-sci-data.net/6/61/2014/essd-

ARTICLES REVIEWED

Video promoted by John Stossel for Earth Day relies on incorrect and misleading claims about climate change

in Stossel TV, by John Stossel, Patrick Michaels, David Legates

— 21 Apr 2021

"This video is misleading in so many ways it’s hard to know where to begin. For a start there’s a repeated assertion that climate “alarmists” won’t enter debate on climat..

Letter signed by “500 scientists” relies on inaccurate claims about climate science

in clintel.nl, by Guus Berkhout, Reynald du Berger, Terry Dunleavy, Viv Forbes, Jeffrey Fos, Morten Jodal, Rob Lemeire, Richard Lindzen, Ingemar Nordin, Jim O'Brien, Alberto Prestininzi, Benoit Rittaud, Fritz Vahrenholt, Christopher Monckton

— 04 Oct 2019

"The scientific content is completely inaccurate, undocumented, and fails to bring proof for its claims. The ending of the Little Ice Age in 1850 has no logical link with the fact ..

New York Times series accurately describes research on Antarctic ice sheets and sea level rise, but highlights uncertain studies

in The New York Times, by Justin Gillis

— 23 May 2017

"Generally scientifically sound, but caution should be displayed before basing discussion solely on a single modeling study, especially when it incorporates fundamentally different..

Analysis of “Record-breaking climate change pushes world into ‘uncharted territory’”

in The Guardian, by Damian Carrington

— 22 Mar 2017

"The article clearly and concisely documents some of 2016's climate extremes and puts them in the context of the warming trend.

Analysis of “The Phony War Against CO2”

in The Wall Street Journal, by Rodney Nichols and Harrison Schmitt

— 03 Nov 2016

"The article speaks about scientific questions under an "opinion" banner—as if questions about the role of CO2 in the Earth system could be a matter of opinions. For the major fi..

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

CLINTEL group inaccurately represents climate science in its declaration of “no climate emergency” once again
CLAIM
Global warming is just the end of the Little Ice Age; Warming is slower than climate models forecasted; Carbon dioxide is beneficial to Earth; Global warming is not intensifying or increasing the frequency of natural disasters

SOURCE: Naveen Athrappully, The Epoch Times, Global Climate Intelligence Group (“CLINTEL”)

Published: 04 Sep 2023

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

Solar forcing is not the main cause of current global warming, contrary to claim by Alex Newman in the Epoch Times
CLAIM
The Sun and not human emissions of carbon dioxide may be the main cause of warmer temperatures in recent decades. There is a systemic bias in UN IPCC's data selection.

SOURCE: Alex Newman, The Epoch Times, The Western Journal, Newsmax

Published: 30 Aug 2021

VERDICT

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

VERDICT

There is overwhelming evidence that current climate change is significantly caused by human carbon emissions contrary to claim in Townhall
CLAIM
Human-produced carbon might be one of the factors [of climate change], but there’s simply no evidence that it is a significant one.

SOURCE: Kurt Schlichter, Townhall

Published: 11 Sep 2019

VERDICT

Earth’s orbit cannot explain modern climate change
CLAIM
changes in the solar orbit of the earth, along with alterations to the earth’s axial tilt, are both responsible for what climate scientists today have dubbed as “warming”[...]. In no way, shape, or form are humans warming or cooling the planet

SOURCE: Ethan Huff, Natural News

Published: 03 Sep 2019

VERDICT

Claim that cosmic rays are a crucial player for current climate change is unsupported
CLAIM
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

VERDICT

Non-peer-reviewed manuscript falsely claims natural cloud changes can explain global warming
CLAIM
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

VERDICT

Natural variability can not explain modern global warming, as Heartland Institute report claims
CLAIM
Neither the rate nor the magnitude of the reported late twentieth century surface warming (1979–2000) lay outside normal natural variability.

SOURCE: Craig Idso, Robert Carter, S. Fred Singer, Heartland Institute

Published: 30 May 2017

VERDICT

The Sun cannot explain recent global warming, contrary to what Heartland Institute report claims
CLAIM
Solar forcings are not too small to explain twentieth century warming. In fact, their effect could be equal to or greater than the effect of CO2 in the atmosphere.

SOURCE: Craig Idso, Robert Carter, S. Fred Singer, Heartland Institute

Published: 03 May 2017

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