Christopher Merchant
Breitbart article baselessly claims a study of past climate invalidates human-caused climate change
“By the reasoning of this article, if a rock rolled down a hill three million years ago, no human can be responsible for rolling a rock down a hill today. The fallaciousness of this reasoning is astounding.
It is hard to imagine that a well-intentioned person can so profoundly misunderstand the science. Assuming the author is acting in good faith, this article provides evidence that motivated reasoning can produce results that appear delusional to well-informed people.”
Popular story on Fox2Now accurately describes 2017 global temperature, sea ice extent
“The article is factually correct. The reality that Arctic sea ice is getting younger is not so well known from the public, so such an article is welcome.
The article’s title and the front video are about sea ice, but most of the rest of the text is about global temperatures.”
The Wall Street Journal fails to acknowledge that 2016 was the warmest year on record
Claim:
no one really knows if last year (2016) was a (global temperature) record
Global surface temperatures are increasing according to climate projections, contrary to Wall Street Journal claim
Claim:
the warming is not nearly as great as the climate change computer models have predicted.