Articles tagged with

Climate models

-1.6Very low
- Climate
Posted on: 2019-08-31
Washington Examiner op-ed cherry-picks data and misleads readers about climate models

“This article focuses only on specific lines of evidence that climate models disagree with observations. In doing so, the authors ignore research that helps to reconcile differences between models and observations. The authors do not consider alternate datasets and time periods in which models and observations agree. Models are one tool for understanding climate change; their overall credibility does not hinge on one variable, in one domain, over a specific time period, with respect to a set of imperfect observations.”
Inaccurate
- Climate
Posted on: 2019-03-11
Caleb Rossiter falsely claims that climate models are "running very hot"

Claim:

The models predicted about three times the amount of warming in the world we’ve seen since [1988].

Source: The Hill, Caleb Rossiter, 2019-03-06
Inaccurate
- Climate
Posted on: 2018-10-09
On BBC Newsnight, Myron Ebell falsely claims climate models exaggerate warming

Claim:

The rate of warming according to the data is much slower than the models used by the IPCC

Source: BBC, Myron Ebell, 2018-10-08
-2Very low
- Climate
Posted on: 2018-08-09
The Australian publishes "deeply ill-informed" opinion on climate by Ian Plimer

“This article is an amalgamation of logical fallacies, misleading talking points, and downright factually incorrect statements regarding the physics of the climate system. Every talking point in this article has been debunked many times over and it is astonishing that this was published.”
0.8High
- Climate
Posted on: 2018-07-10
USA Today story accurate but lacks clarity regarding timescales over which warming could be underestimated

“An accurate and balanced article that gives readers a good flavour of the research but the reference to “Earth’s history” might confuse some when it otherwise refers to the studied period: the past 3.5 million years. Neatly explains a lot of the key points in a small word count, but…”
- Climate
Posted on: 2017-10-12
Tony Abbott speech on climate change rehashes misleading, inaccurate talking points

“the usual mix of misdirection, falsehoods and tirades against ‘brigades’ who supposedly say this and that but are never clearly identified”.
In his speech, Abbott repeated common climate change contrarian talking points that are either incorrect, fallacious, unsupported, misleading, or cherry-picked. Read below for detailed reactions from scientists.
Incorrect
- Climate
Posted on: 2017-09-22
Daily Wire article incorrectly claims climate models have overestimated warming

Claim:

climate models have overestimated the amount of global warming and failed to predict what climatologists call the warming ‘hiatus’

Source: The Daily Wire, James Barrett, 2017-09-19
-1.7Very low
- Climate
Posted on: 2017-09-21
Daily Wire article misunderstands study on carbon budget (along with Fox News, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Breitbart…)

“The article selectively quotes from interviews and scientific papers to create the false perception that climate models significantly overestimate the rate of warming. The article also falsely implies that the cited paper is about the so called “hiatus” while the paper is actually about the carbon budget for the 1.5 ºC target.”
Incorrect
- Climate
Posted on: 2017-05-23
Heartland Institute report’s claim that climate models are too sensitive to CO2 does not reflect evidence

Claim:

[climate models] systematically over-estimate the sensitivity of climate to carbon dioxide ... and modelers exclude forcings and feedbacks that run counter to their mission

Source: Heartland Institute, Craig Idso, Fred Singer, Robert Carter, 2024-12-27
- Climate
Posted on: 2017-04-25
CNN airs misleading climate claims in interview

“Dr. Happer’s assertion that models show 2x to 3x greater warming than observations is incorrect. At the surface (where we all live) models predict a rate of warming of 0.2 °C per decade since 1970, while NASA observes warming of around 0.18 °C during the same period.”