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…Take-aways The statements quoted below are from the article; comments and replies are from the reviewers. 1. The timing of past “ice ages” was governed by slow-changing cycles in Earth’s…
…carries a tone that exaggerates the study’s conclusions. One of the study’s authors also clarified that a personal quote used in the story (taken from a radio interview) requires context…
…Iffy Quotient, which measures the proportion of posts containing links to low-credibility domains among the most influential posts of the platform. The figure below illustrates this exact phenomenon at play:…
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The United Kingdom Meteorological Office (the Met Office) is fabricating data/making up numbers for weather stations that are closed.
…University The information in this story is generally correct—the frequency and severity of flooding is accelerating due to sea level rise, and the quoted scientists from NOAA and FAU are…
…but the headline is not supported by the story. The headline seems to indicate that scientists were quoted as saying the the Great Barrier Reef “is ‘terminal’”, but no source…
…long—the paper says centuries to millennia. This is compounded by a mistake in one of the numbers quoted (permafrost feedback should be 0.09 °C by 2100 according to the paper,…
…these extremes. Notes: [1] See the rating guidelines used for article evaluations. [2] Each evaluation is independent. Scientists’ comments are all published at the same time. Annotations The statements quoted…
…by the author, but rarely supported by statements or explanations that go beyond the immediate replies from the invited climate scientist. Some of the inaccurate statements quoted in the text…
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There were no hurricanes this season even despite forecasts for a high activity, revealing a problem with climate change ‘theory’; it has been a light hurricane season.