Articles tagged with

Climate impacts

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    • Climate
    Posted on:  2016-10-07

    Analysis of "James Lovelock: ‘Before the end of this century, robots will have taken over’"

    “Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence, and Lovelock has not even come up to the standards of providing what the scientific community would consider to be ordinary evidence. The journalist did not balance Lovelock’s statements with a set of clear statements saying that the vast majority of informed climate scientists (as, for example, represented by the IPCC reports) have reached consensus on conclusions that are diametrically opposed to what Lovelock is saying, and that the IPCC scientists have backed up their statements with a wealth of empirical data, whereas Lovelock is largely opining without providing any substantive evidence to support his rather extraordinary claims.”

  • -1.7Very low
    • Climate
    Posted on:  2016-09-29

    Analysis of "Climate Exaggeration is Backfiring"

    “This picking of quotes that are convenient for Robert Bradley Jr.’s narrative while ignoring what most climate scientists say is one of the most used rhetorical tools of this piece. The other is the use of offensive emotional language to reduce the critical thinking of his readers. People should know that Forbes is nowadays just a blogging platform.”

  • 1.7Very high
    • Climate
    Posted on:  2016-09-07

    Analysis of "Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun"

    “The theory of sea-level rise and flood problems is pretty well understood — this makes the point that this theory is also happening now and can only be expected to get worse — sea levels have been rising on the US east coast for the last 150 years or more and even if current trends simply continue, impacts will continue to grow. As the article states, we actually expect a significant acceleration of sea-level rise in the coming decades meaning the impacts will grow more rapidly.”

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    • Climate
    Posted on:  2016-05-09

    Analysis of "…in many ways global warming will be a good thing"

    “This article presents a highly biased view of global warming, only presenting the “positive” aspects of it. As the author is criticizing media doing the opposite (always showing the bad side of climate change) it is a shame the author didn’t present a balanced view here.”

  • 1.0High
    • Climate
    Posted on:  2016-05-02

    Analysis of "Great Barrier Reef may perish by 2030s…"

    This Mashable article reports on new preliminary research that finds the ongoing coral bleaching event in the Pacific is mainly due to human-caused global warming, and that if global warming proceeds as currently expected, “large parts” of the Great Barrier Reef could die by the mid-2030s. Six scientists have reviewed the article and conclude that it is overall accurate and in agreement with the science.

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    • Climate
    Posted on:  2016-04-11

    Analysis of "An Overheated Climate Alarm"

    “Lomborg is using scientific ‘language’ to suggest that climate change will have insignificant health impacts; this goes against a vast body of evidence. The notion that benefits from warmer winters could be more important than risks from hotter summer in terms of human health is plain wrong.”

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    • Climate
    Posted on:  2015-08-12

    Analysis of “The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here”

    “The article rightly communicates the urgency and seriousness of human-induced climate change, […] However, by the title, subtitle, and overall framing, it is likely to give an impression that some current events can be attributed to human influence for which the scientific evidence supporting such an attribution is either weak or non-existent.”

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    • Climate
    Posted on:  2015-05-12

    Analysis of "9 questions on rising seas"

    “This article does a very good job at presenting the main aspects of sea level rise and how it will impact coastal regions…”