Review of Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth) reveals numerous, well-known misinformation talking points and inaccuracies
On 21 March 2024, a movie titled “Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth)” was released on YouTube, and widely shared…
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William Happer
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Incorrect
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"
Source: PragerU, William Happer, 2021-01-24 -
Flawed reasoning
CO2 caused warming during past climate changes, notably as a feedback amplifying other factors
Claim:
CO2 does not cause climate change, it RESPONDS to it [...] temperature always changes first, and CO2 follows
Source: Ice Age Now, Robert W. Felix, William Happer, 2017-02-19 -
Incorrect
In CNN interview, William Happer incorrectly claims temperatures don’t match climate model projections
Claim:
The temperature is not rising nearly as fast as the alarmist computer models predicted. You know, it’s much, much less, factors of 2 or 3 less.
Source: CNN, William Happer, 2017-04-22 -
MisleadingIn CNN interview, William Happer misleads about the impact of rising carbon dioxide on plant life
Claim:
there's this myth that's developed around carbon dioxide that it's a pollutant […] Carbon dioxide is a perfectly natural gas, it’s just like water vapor, it’s something that plants love.
Source: CNN, William Happer, 2017-04-22
