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
Scott Johnson
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Source: The Boston Globe, Jeff Jacoby, 2017-03-14 -
-2Very lowAnalysis of "Why are climate-change models so flawed? Because climate science is so incomplete"
“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 his logic is flawed.”
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Claim in New Scientist that humans are responsible for over 100% of warming is mostly correct
Claim:
more than 100 per cent of the warming over the past century is due to human actions
Source: New Scientist, Michael Le Page, 2017-03-08 -
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Science shows that humans are primarily responsible for climate change, counter to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s claim
Claim:
I would not agree that [carbon dioxide is] a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.
Source: CNBC, Scott Pruitt, 2017-03-09 -
The Daily Wire corrects story analyzed by scientists, but it's still misleading
While the most inaccurate statements have been edited, the scientists who reviewed the post indicate that the implication that the study undercuts confidence in the human cause of modern climate change is still misleading. The research being described doesn’t relate to recent climate history. It relates to differences that existed about 90 million years ago in well-known cycles in Earth’s orbit.
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Analysis of "Here’s why it's so frickin’ hot right now"
“a nice summary of the current warm events in the bigger context of climate change. I caution against using a single month of data to support claims about climate change impacts on extremes, but the discussion about record highs outpacing record lows is a good one and provides strong evidence for influence of global warming on regional weather.”
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The world’s coral reefs are severely threatened by climate change and other human impacts, as ABC story notes
Claim:
90 per cent of the world's coral reefs will disappear in the next 35 years due to coral bleaching induced by global warming, pollution and over-development.
Source: ABC News, Greg Hassall, Rebecca Latham, 2017-02-23 -
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Analysis of "Scientists have just detected a major change to the Earth’s oceans linked to a warming climate"
“Changes in ocean chemistry, temperature, and circulation have significant consequences for marine life and can initiate positive feedbacks to accelerate ocean and atmosphere warming. This article is refreshing in that the author presents the results and significance of global ocean oxygen loss accurately and very clearly for non-expert audiences.”
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Analysis of "What California’s Dam Crisis Says About the Changing Climate"
Warm dry years followed by extremely wet years have always been part of the climate of California, but warming can worsen both extremes by increasing evaporation, which makes droughts worse as well as put more moisture into the atmosphere allowing heavier downpours.
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Analysis of "The big melt: Global sea ice at record low"
The five scientists who reviewed the article concluded that it is accurate. It properly conveys the core facts about global sea ice extent and the attribution of continuing sea ice loss to human-induced warming of the climate—primarily in the Arctic, as the low sea ice extent around Antarctica this year has not yet been clearly connected to climate change.
