Mostly accurate
Deforestation can facilitate the emergence and spread of some infectious diseases
Claim:
Deforestation has made humans more vulnerable to pandemics
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Source: Now This, Lani Chan, Tom McKenna, 2020-03-20 -
InaccurateGlobal data contradict claim of no acceleration in sea level rise
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The long-term tide gauge datasets are all in agreement that there is no acceleration
Source: Watts Up With That?, Willis Eschenbach, 2020-03-08 -
Flawed reasoningGlobal warming and the COVID-19 pandemic are unrelated issues: one will not protect us from the other
Claim:
If we want to protect ourselves from the coronavirus, we must back away from all the climate change efforts we've been making
Source: LifeSite News, Andrea Widberg, 2020-03-17 -
Flawed reasoningTemperature trends in the U.S. are consistent with warming around the world, contrary to Electroverse claim
Claim:
Historical data of temperature in the U.S. destroys global warming myth
Source: Electroverse, Cap Allon, 2020-01-22 -
Flawed reasoningCO2 can increase plant growth in greenhouses while also negatively affecting ecosystems and human societies
Claim:
CO2 is a plant nutrient...it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization. If CO2 was so terrible for the planet, then installing a CO2 generator in a greenhouse would kill the plants.
Source: Natural News, Mike Adams, 2013-06-22 -
IncorrectElectroverse article incorrectly claims the Sun is behind climate change
Claim:
the IPCC is wrong − the sun, not CO2, drove modern global warming
Source: Electroverse, Roger Higgs, 2020-03-11 -
InaccurateSea levels rose faster in the past century than in previous time periods
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Sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization
Source: American Thinker, Thomas Lifson, 2020-03-07 -
Article in The Sun misrepresents Antarctic discovery and misplaces it on map
This article in The Sun describes the chance discovery of a small island in Antarctica’s Pine Island Bay, which seems to have appeared in the last decade. But the article sensationally connects this with a recent record high temperature at a station elsewhere in Antarctica. While warming trends in the atmosphere and ocean may be relevant, a single weather record is not.
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InaccurateData from glaciers around the world show most are shrinking as a consequence of global warming
Claim:
90 percent of the world’s glaciers are growing.
Source: Principia Scientific, IceAgeNow, 2016-11-26 -
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
