Timothy Myers
PragerU video on climate change repeats a range of misleading claims by Steven Koonin
“The author of this video, Dr. Steven Koonin, says he is following the scientific reports published by the UN and US government, but by subtly changing wording and choosing not to mention important context this video is very likely to mislead readers.
This style of selective wording and lack of context, an approach called “cherry picking”, applies to every one of Dr. Koonin’s scientific comments.”
YouTube video falsely claims that climate models systematically over-estimated warming and that we are heading towards an ice age
Claim:
"The official observed temperatures are coming consistently below the scary global warming numbers"; "Melting polar ice triggers ice age"
PragerU post by Happer uses flawed reasoning to claim that climate models always fail
Claim:
"climate models that attempt to predict the future temperature of the planet...don’t work. They haven’t worked in the past. They don’t work now."; "the number of factors that influence climate—the sun, the earth’s orbital properties, oceans, clouds, and, yes, industrial man—is huge and enormously variable"; "CO2 is a minor contributor to the warming of the earth"