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Scientific evidence indicates that modern warming is driven by CO2, contrary to Richard Lindzen’s claim
Claim:
“Believing CO2 controls the climate is pretty close to believing in magic.”
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Source: Climate Change is Crap, Richard Lindzen, 2022-08-30 -
IncorrectLetter 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: Daily Sceptic, Toby Young, 2022-08-18 -
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 -
IncorrectThe sun isn’t responsible for current climate change, contrary to claims in Suspicious0bservers YouTube video
Claim:
Scientists have neglected the effect of solar particles, cosmic rays, the interplanetary magnetic field and Earth's weakening magnetic field to conclude climate change is due to human activity
Source: Suspicious0bservers, Ben Davidson, 2022-07-14 -
Yes, plants need carbon dioxide. No, that doesn’t mean it’s harmless.
“The benefit[s] of increasing CO2 concentrations for plant growth are increasingly being outweighed by the negative impacts, especially of global warming. This is true for natural as well as agricultural ecosystems.”
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IncorrectWarming of Earth’s surface and oceans continues apace, contrary to claims in blog
Claim:
”Global warming started to run out of steam over two decades ago… Half of the apparent global temperature increase from January 1910 to January 2000 is due to administrative adjustments.”
Source: Daily Sceptic, Chris Morrison, 2022-05-19 -
Water scarcity in a changing climate: will drought get worse with warming?
“The thing to remember is that drought is a very complex phenomenon. For one, drought is not just precipitation. Drought is also soil moisture and streamflow. This is an important distinction, because it means that other processes that may be affected by climate change (e.g., evaporation) can play a role in increasing drought, even if precipitation does not change.”
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IncorrectEarth’s surface continues to warm due to greenhouse gas emissions, contrary to claims by Christopher Monckton in Watts Up With That
Claim:
“...Seven and a half years have passed since there was any trend in global warming at all” If global warming was caused by human emissions, temperature would rise at a steady rate
Source: Watts Up With That?, Christopher Monckton, 2022-04-04 -
IncorrectRobust scientific evidence supports that human activity drives global warming, contrary to claims in a CO2 Coalition blog post by Andy May
Claim:
"There is no evidence, other than models, that human CO2 emissions drive climate change and abundant evidence that the Sun, coupled with natural climate cycles, drives most, if not all, of recent climate changes"
Source: CO2 Coalition, Andy May, 2022-03-03 -
Mostly accurateMore than 75 percent of the Amazon rainforest is losing resilience, as described by the Washington Post
Claim:
More than 75 percent of the rainforest is losing resilience; More than half of the rainforest could be converted into savanna in a matter of decades
Source: The Washington Post, Sarah Kaplan, 2022-03-07
