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- Climate
Posted on: 2018-09-17
USA Today op-ed ignores evidence to claim climate change had no role in Hurricane Florence

This op-ed in USA Today makes the claim that Hurricane Florence has no appreciable contribution from human-caused climate change.
Scientists who reviewed the article found that it ignores the evidence for trends in tropical cyclone behavior, including slower movement speed and more intense rainfall. Additionally, sea level rise raised the storm surge of the landfalling tropical cyclone above the level it would have reached a century ago. The article cherry-picks data in misleading way to claim that recent storms are no different from past tropical cyclones…
Inaccurate
- Climate
Posted on: 2016-11-01
Sea level rise is accelerating, and with it the risk associated with coastal storm surge, contrary to claim in Forbes

Claim:

Sea level rise, which was occurring long before humans could be blamed, has not accelerated.

Source: Forbes, Roy Spencer, 2016-10-25
-1.8Very low
- Climate
Posted on: 2016-10-29
Analysis of "Hillary Clinton Boards The Climate Crisis Train To Nowhere"

“The article is inaccurate in several places and conveys that one must choose between solving immediate problems, such as poverty, and long-term risks such as climate change. We can do both, and indeed must do both if we take poverty seriously, since climate change disproportionately affects the poor.”

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