Inaccurate
Diesel generators do not charge most electric vehicles
Claim:
The largest EV charging station in the world is solely powered by diesel generators.
Rahul Rao
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Source: Threads, Social media users, 2024-08-31 -
MisleadingBjorn Lomborg’s claims about polar bears, coral, and cold deaths ignore scientists’ predictions of climate-change-affected futures
Claim:
Despite climate change, the global polar-bear population has increased substantially, the Great Barrier Reef has more coral cover than at any point since 1986, and extreme-heat deaths have declined.
Source: The Wall Street Journal, Bjorn Lomborg, 2024-08-01 -
Lacks contextMost used wind turbine blades go to waste, but their footprint is still relatively small
Claim:
Wind turbine disposal has a large environmental footprint. Turbine blades are made of fiberglass, which does not decompose and cannot be burned.
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2022-11-03 -
Lacks contextElectric vehicles may have higher particulate emissions from tires, but they usually have lower particulate emissions from other sources
Claim:
“Electric Cars Emit More Particulate Pollution”; Banning gasoline cars could increase particulate emissions
Source: The Wall Street Journal, LifeSite News, 2024-03-03 -
IncorrectCarbon isotopes do not show that humans’ climate impacts are too small to notice, despite the Daily Sceptic’s inaccurate claim
Claim:
Human-caused carbon emissions’ effect on climate is ‘non-discernible’. Measurements of carbon isotope ratios in atmospheric CO2 indicate that it is the recent expansion of a more productive biosphere that has led to increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere.
Source: Daily Sceptic, Chris Morrison, 2024-04-08
