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Water vapor is a greenhouse gas, but it is not a major driver of global warming
Claim:
Water vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas so it is the main cause of recent global warming
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Source: Climate Change is Crap, Facebook users, 2023-11-18 -
CorrectThe long-term survival of polar bears is threatened by loss of sea-ice due to global warming, new study confirms
Claim:
"Global warming is driving polar bears toward extinction"
Source: The New York Times, Henry Fountain, 2020-07-20 -
-1LowArticle by CNN exaggerates study’s implications for future Greenland ice loss with “point of no return” claim
Summary The article in CNN discusses findings from a study published August, 2020 that analyzes trends of ice discharge from the Greenland Ice Sheet over the past three decades[1]. Reports…
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0.6HighAnalysis of "Thanks to climate change, the Arctic is turning green"
…presents this ‘greening’ as a new finding while annual global carbon budgets have reported that about 25% of the fossil-fuel emissions have been taken up by the biosphere since the…
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InaccurateThe total number of COVID-19 deaths thus far exceeds the number of abortions over two days worldwide
Claim:
“More babies will die by abortion in two days than all the coronavirus deaths thus far”
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-09-18 -
How sea ice in the Arctic and the Antarctic is influenced by climate change
…time period. “Looking at the trend in annual mean ice extent over the full period we have satellite data for (1979 to the end of 2021), the trends in the…
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A discussion with experts on California wildfire links to climate change
…Toddi Steelman, Executive Director and Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan: Incident commanders report seeing more extreme weather and erratic fire behavior. In some cases, they report…
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IncorrectNon-peer-reviewed manuscript falsely claims natural cloud changes can explain global warming
Claim:
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.
Source: Summit.news, Fox News, Zero Hedge, Sky News Australia, Jyrki Kauppinen, Paul Joseph Watson, Pekka Malmi, 2019-07-11 -
MisleadingThe presence of titanium dioxide in face masks hasn’t been associated with toxicity or any health problems
Claim:
Face masks contain a “cancer-causing compound”; “exposure to titanium dioxide ‘systematically exceeded the acceptable exposure level to TiO2 by inhalation’”
Source: Children's Health Defense, Joseph Mercola, 2022-03-11 -
Daily Mail correctly reports that climate change leads to more severe heatwaves, but explanation of recent weather is off the mark
…misconstrues the nature of the relationship between global warming and heatwaves. Irene Brox Nilsen Researcher, Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate The statements in the article correspond to generally accepted…