Review of Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth) reveals numerous, well-known misinformation talking points and inaccuracies
On 21 March 2024, a movie titled “Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth)” was released on YouTube, and widely shared…
Articles tagged with
Paleoclimate
-
-
InaccurateTemperatures on Earth are increasing and the rise is drastically outpacing previous natural changes in the planet’s climate
Claim:
“We have been cooling down for the past 4000 years”; the Earth has cooled since the ‘medieval warming’, “It’s all about when you start the measurements”
Source: Media Research Center, Ian Plimer, 2023-05-02 -
Flawed reasoningPre-human changes in climate do not negate contemporary human influence on modern warming, contrary to implication in popular Instagram post
Claim:
Climate changed naturally in prehistoric eras, modern climate change is a naturally occurring phenomenon
Source: Instagram, Social media users, 2023-01-17 -
InaccurateLink between CO2 and Earth’s temperature is well-established, despite claims on Fox News
Claim:
Scientists have found no consistent correlation between CO2 and temperature; scientists do not know whether earth will warm or cool in future
Source: Fox News, Tom Harris, 2022-10-12 -
Flawed reasoningScientists have found that modern climate change is caused entirely by human activity, contrary to recent speculation by Joe Rogan
Claim:
“The question is, ‘how much of an impact do we have on [climate]?’ That has not totally been quantified”; climate change is happening anyway, “The ice age happened without us…It’s probably this constant cycle”.
Source: The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan, 2022-10-02 -
IncorrectCarbon dioxide emissions by humans are the major driver of modern climate change, contrary to Jerome Corsi’s claims in CBN News video
Claim:
Carbon dioxide is not a climate heat driver; we had an ice age when the Earth had extraordinarily larger amounts of carbon dioxide; in the 1970s scientists thought we were going to have a new ice age.
Source: CBN News, Jerome Corsi, 2022-07-29 -
Explainer: How the rise and fall of CO2 levels influenced the ice ages
The Earth’s climate has been quite stable over the past 11,000 years, playing an important role in the development of human civilisation. Prior to that, the Earth experienced an ice age lasting for tens of thousands of years. The global average temperature was around 4C cooler during the last ice age than it is today. There is a real risk that, if emissions continue to rise, the world warms more this century than it did between the middle of the last ice age 20,000 years ago and today.
-
InaccurateSea levels rose faster in the past century than in previous time periods
Claim:
Sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization
Source: American Thinker, Thomas Lifson, 2020-03-07 -
MisleadingCurrent climate warming is rapid and occurring on a global scale, unlike past periods of regional climate fluctuations
Claim:
Of course the climate is changing. It always has. It always will.
Source: PragerU, Patrick Moore, 2020-01-21 -
Incorrect