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Articles tagged with: Climate models
ARTICLE REVIEWS
Article in The Guardian misleads readers about sensitivity of climate models by narrowly focusing on single study
in The Guardian, by Jonathan Watts
— 18 Jun 2020
"The article correctly reports that the most recent versions of some climate models estimate more warming for a given increase in CO2 concentrations. It is also correct in highligh..
Washington Examiner op-ed cherry-picks data and misleads readers about climate models
in The Washington Examiner, by Patrick Michaels, Caleb Stewart Rossiter
— 31 Aug 2019
"This article focuses only on specific lines of evidence that climate models disagree with observations. In doing so, the authors ignore research that helps to reconcile difference..
The Australian publishes “deeply ill-informed” opinion on climate by Ian Plimer
in The Australian, by Ian Plimer
— 09 Aug 2018
"This article is an amalgamation of logical fallacies, misleading talking points, and downright factually incorrect statements regarding the physics of the climate system. Every ta..
USA Today story accurate but lacks clarity regarding timescales over which warming could be underestimated
in USA Today, by Doyle Rice
— 10 Jul 2018
"An accurate and balanced article that gives readers a good flavour of the research but the reference to “Earth’s history” might confuse some when it otherwise refers to the ..
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..
Analysis of “Why are climate-change models so flawed? Because climate science is so incomplete”
in The Boston Globe, by Jeff Jacoby
— 16 Mar 2017
"The facts given by the author regarding the skills of climate models and the state of the art are mostly wrong. The most important processes are not understood by the author and h..
Analysis of “James Lovelock: ‘Before the end of this century, robots will have taken over’”
in The Guardian, by Decca Aitkenhead & James Lovelock
— 07 Oct 2016
"Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence, and Lovelock has not even come up to the standards of providing what the scientific community would consider to be ordinary evi..
CLAIM REVIEWS
PragerU post by Happer uses flawed reasoning to claim that climate models always fail
CLAIM
"climate models that attempt to predict the future temperature of the planet...don’t work. They haven’t worked in the past. They don’t work now."; "the number of factors that influence climate—the sun, the earth’s orbital properties, oceans, clouds, and, yes, industrial man—is huge and enormously variable"; "CO2 is a minor contributor to the warming of the earth"
SOURCE: William Happer, PragerU
Published: 27 Jan 2021
VERDICT
Climate scientists agree that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are primarily responsible for climate change, contrary to claims in Clear Energy Alliance video
CLAIM
The scientific consensus on whether global warming is human caused is not 97 percent, it’s less than 1 percent. There is no way to measure the human impact on climate change.
SOURCE: Mark Mathis, Clear Energy Alliance
Published: 25 Jun 2020
VERDICT
Caleb Rossiter falsely claims that climate models are “running very hot”
CLAIM
The models predicted about three times the amount of warming in the world we’ve seen since [1988].
SOURCE: Caleb Rossiter, The Hill
Published: 11 Mar 2019
VERDICT
On BBC Newsnight, Myron Ebell falsely claims climate models exaggerate warming
CLAIM
The rate of warming according to the data is much slower than the models used by the IPCC
SOURCE: Myron Ebell, BBC Newsnight
Published: 09 Oct 2018
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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
Heartland Institute report’s claim that climate models are too sensitive to CO2 does not reflect evidence
CLAIM
[climate models] systematically over-estimate the sensitivity of climate to carbon dioxide ... and modelers exclude forcings and feedbacks that run counter to their mission
SOURCE: Craig Idso, Robert Carter, S. Fred Singer, Heartland Institute
Published: 23 May 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
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Boston Globe column claims that climate models have consistently failed based on no evidence
CLAIM
Climate projections using models based on it [the water vapor feedback] have consistently failed
SOURCE: Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
Published: 16 Mar 2017
VERDICT
Global surface temperatures are increasing according to climate projections, contrary to Wall Street Journal claim
CLAIM
the warming is not nearly as great as the climate change computer models have predicted.
SOURCE: Wall Street Journal editorial, The Wall Street Journal
Published: 27 Jan 2017
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INSIGHTS
Tony Abbott speech on climate change rehashes misleading, inaccurate talking points
— 12 Oct 2017
“the usual mix of misdirection, falsehoods and tirades against ‘brigades’ who supposedly say this and that but are never clearly identified”.
In his speech, Abbott repeate...
CNN airs misleading climate claims in interview
— 25 Apr 2017
"Dr. Happer's assertion that models show 2x to 3x greater warming than observations is incorrect. At the surface (where we all live) models predict a rate of warming of 0.2 °C per..