Inaccurate
Claim in The Express that low solar activity is bringing cold weather is false
Claim:
Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says
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Source: Express, Sean Martin, 2019-04-15 -
MisleadingNo, the UK Met Office is not fabricating climate data, contrary to a blogger’s claims
Claim:
The United Kingdom Meteorological Office (the Met Office) is fabricating data/making up numbers for weather stations that are closed.
Source: Daily Sceptic, Tallbloke's Talkshop, Chris Morrison, Ray Sanders, 2024-10-31 -
InaccurateStrange bumps in the sky are natural cloud features, not the results of weather manipulation
Claim:
These clouds [mammatus and asperitas] are not normal; they are proof that they are messing with the weather.
Source: TikTok, Social media users, 2024-09-20 -
1.25HighAnalysis of "One of the most troubling ideas about climate change just found new evidence in its favor"
…may trigger remote weather impacts. Specifically, it focuses on slow-moving meanders in the jet stream in the spring and summer than can cause extended periods of hot or wet weather….
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InaccurateSome extreme weather events are clearly becoming more common, in contrast to Lord Lawson's claim
Claim:
The IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is sort of the voice of the consensus, concedes that there has been no increase in extreme weather events.
Source: BBC, Nigel Lawson, 2017-08-10 -
-2Very lowBreitbart article makes numerous false claims about the impacts of climate change, based on Global Warming Policy Foundation post
…many types of extreme weather events, as the scientists explain below[1-6]. In addition, some extreme weather events, such as heat waves and intense rainfall events, are becoming more common and…
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1.7Very highWashington Post story puts recent weather extremes in accurate climate change context
Scientists’ Feedback SUMMARY This story in The Washington Post lists a variety of extreme weather events seen around the Northern Hemisphere recently. The article explains that some of these types…
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1.3HighGuardian story accurately covers sea ice event but makes unsupported connection to weather patterns and the Gulf Stream
…Arctic sea ice conditions and midlatitude weather patterns like heatwaves is a topic of current research that is still unclear. Atlantic Ocean circulation, however, is not believed to be connected…
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MisleadingClimate change is one factor affecting how fires in Australia burn, regardless of whether arsonists or lightning started them
Claim:
the bushfires [in Australia] were caused by arsonists and a series of lightning strikes, not 'climate change'
Source: Breitbart, NewsPunch, Paul Joseph Watson, Sean Adl-Tabatabai, Thomas D. Williams, 2020-01-05 -
IncorrectPragerU 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