Patrick Brown
Solar forcing is not the main cause of current global warming, contrary to claim by Alex Newman in the Epoch Times
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The Sun and not human emissions of carbon dioxide may be the main cause of warmer temperatures in recent decades. There is a systemic bias in UN IPCC's data selection.
Video promoted by John Stossel for Earth Day relies on incorrect and misleading claims about climate change
“This video is misleading in so many ways it’s hard to know where to begin. For a start there’s a repeated assertion that climate “alarmists” won’t enter debate on climate change, but there are many examples of renowned climate scientists such as Gavin Schmidt, Michael Mann and David Karoly entering into debates with climate change denialists. Many scientists have found such debates to be unhelpful as they give the false impression of balance despite there being broad consensus among climate scientists…”
Scientific studies established clear links between human-caused increased in atmospheric CO2 and global warming
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“It’s a good thing that we are putting some more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The scientific method has not been applied in such a way as to prove that carbon dioxide is causing the Earth to warm.”
Climate scientists agree that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are primarily responsible for climate change, contrary to claims in Clear Energy Alliance video
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The scientific consensus on whether global warming is human caused is not 97 percent, it’s less than 1 percent. There is no way to measure the human impact on climate change.
Video from PragerU makes several incorrect and misleading claims about climate change
This video discussing climate change was first published on PragerU’s website in April 2016 and recently posted on Facebook in May 2020. Scientists that evaluated the video found several claims about climate change to be incorrect and misleading to viewers.
Human-induced increases in greenhouse gases are the primary driver of global warming, contrary to claims in CFACT article
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They tell us that we are the primary forces controlling earth temperatures by the burning of fossil fuels and releasing their carbon dioxide. I hope my readers can recognize the absurdity of their claims. … increasing sunspots are linked to increases in earth temperature
Electroverse article incorrectly claims the Sun is behind climate change
Claim:
the IPCC is wrong − the sun, not CO2, drove modern global warming
Simple measurements demonstrate that CO2 is a greenhouse gas contrary to claim in online blogs
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CO2 is not a greenhouse gas.
2°C is not known to be a "point of no return", as Jonathan Franzen claims
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The consensus among scientists and policy-makers is that we’ll pass this point of no return if the global mean temperature rises by more than two degrees Celsius
Earth's orbit cannot explain modern climate change
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changes in the solar orbit of the earth, along with alterations to the earth’s axial tilt, are both responsible for what climate scientists today have dubbed as “warming”[...]. In no way, shape, or form are humans warming or cooling the planet
Prediction by Extinction Rebellion's Roger Hallam that climate change will kill 6 billion people by 2100 is unsupported
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I am talking about the slaughter, death, and starvation of 6 billion people this century—that's what the science predicts.
Claim that cosmic rays are a crucial player for current climate change is unsupported
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Based on the increase of solar activity during the twentieth century, it should account for between half to two-thirds of all climate change
Sky News Australia interview falsely claims that global cooling is coming soon
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the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is misleading humanity about climate change and sea levels, and that in fact a new solar-driven cooling period is not far off
Non-peer-reviewed manuscript falsely claims natural cloud changes can explain global warming
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During the last hundred years the temperature is increased about 0.1°C because of carbon dioxide. The human contribution was about 0.01°C.
On Fox News, Patrick Michaels falsely claims humans are only responsible for half of global warming
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So that means that probably about half, maybe half of that nine-tenths of the degree [of total warming] might be caused by greenhouse gases
Caleb Rossiter falsely claims that climate models are "running very hot"
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The models predicted about three times the amount of warming in the world we’ve seen since [1988].
Popular “Friends of Science” video promoted by Youtube presents long list of climate myths
“The video presents a litany of the usual climate denier talking points, none of which hold any water. It is full of outright false claims and does not even shy away from presenting a fake TIME magazine cover that supposedly warned of an ice age. “Friends of Science” is an advocacy group “largely funded by the fossil fuel industry””
On BBC Newsnight, Myron Ebell falsely claims climate models exaggerate warming
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The rate of warming according to the data is much slower than the models used by the IPCC
Financial Post commentary misleads about warming effect of greenhouse gas emissions by cherry-picking studies
“This article selectively cherry-picks studies showing low climate sensitivity, leaving out whole lines of evidence (e.g. paleoclimate studies) that agree with the sensitivity estimates found in models. It also glosses over the many criticisms of instrumentally based (or “energy balance”) sensitivity estimates published in recent years.”
New York Times’ news coverage of 2016 global temperature data was an accurate summary
“A clear and accurate article on the temperature record in 2016, looking back at the records in 2015 and 2014. The article places them in the proper context of long-term warming, while mentioning the special effect that helped make the year a record.”
Incorrect claim that global warming is mostly natural was based on a study that can’t support that conclusion
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Most of the recent warming could be natural
Energy Secretary Rick Perry incorrectly claims CO2 is not primary cause of climate change
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Most likely the primary control knob [on climate change] is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in.
Breitbart misrepresents research from 58 scientific papers to falsely claim that they disprove human-caused global warming
“This article grossly misinterprets open-access scientific papers by simply looking at graphs and entirely ignoring their meaning as explained by authors in the text.”
Breitbart falsely claims 58 studies refute human-caused global warming
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'Global warming' is a myth — so say 80 graphs from 58 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2017.
Natural variability can not explain modern global warming, as Heartland Institute report claims
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Neither the rate nor the magnitude of the reported late twentieth century surface warming (1979–2000) lay outside normal natural variability.
Heartland Institute report’s claim that climate models are too sensitive to CO2 does not reflect evidence
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[climate models] systematically over-estimate the sensitivity of climate to carbon dioxide ... and modelers exclude forcings and feedbacks that run counter to their mission