Imprecise
Claim that CO2 is cooling the planet is misleading, anthropogenic CO2 emissions overall cause global warming
Claim:
Global warming slowing down? 'Ironic' study finds more CO<sub>2</sub> has slightly cooled the planet
Articles tagged with
CO2
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Source: Express, Sebastian Kettley, 2020-02-18 -
Incorrect
Human activities have dramatically increased atmospheric CO2 levels, causing imbalances in the global carbon cycle
Claim:
Human additions of CO<sub>2</sub> are in the margin of error of current measurements and the gradual increase in CO<sub>2</sub> is mainly from oceans degassing as the planet slowly emerges from the last ice age.
Source: I Love Carbon Dioxide, Cole Ryan, 2020-04-12 -
Flawed reasoning
CO2 can increase plant growth in greenhouses while also negatively affecting ecosystems and human societies
Claim:
CO2 is a plant nutrient...it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization. If CO2 was so terrible for the planet, then installing a CO2 generator in a greenhouse would kill the plants.
Source: Natural News, Mike Adams, 2013-06-22 -
Misleading
CO2 emissions from human activities have imbalanced the atmospheric carbon budget, significantly contributing to climate change, contrary to online claim
Claim:
Less than 5% of carbon dioxide emissions are produced by man [... they] can’t cause 30% of today’s atmospheric carbon dioxide
Source: Issues & Insights, I&I Editorial Board, 2019-08-26 -
Accurate
It's true that the current carbon dioxide level is higher than any time in human existence
Claim:
the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has climbed to a level last seen more than 3 million years ago — before humans even appeared on the rocky ball we call home
Source: NBC News, Denise Chow, 2019-05-14 -
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Popular “Friends of Science” video promoted by Youtube presents long list of climate myths
“The video presents a litany of the usual climate denier talking points, none of which hold any water. It is full of outright false claims and does not even shy away from presenting a fake TIME magazine cover that supposedly warned of an ice age. “Friends of Science” is an advocacy group “largely funded by the fossil fuel industry””
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Investor’s Business Daily editorial misrepresents study to claim plants will prevent dangerous climate change
“Our nitrogen study does not detract from the urgency of the climate problem, nor the unequivocal evidence of the role of carbon pollution in causing global climate change. The climate threat is clear and present and we must solve it rapidly by reducing emissions and capturing existing CO2 from the atmosphere.”
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Incorrect
Energy Secretary Rick Perry incorrectly claims CO2 is not primary cause of climate change
Claim:
Most likely the primary control knob [on climate change] is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in.
Source: CNBC, Rick Perry, 2017-06-19 -
Flawed reasoningCO2 is a greenhouse gas that caused warming during past climate changes, notably as a feedback amplifying other factors
Claim:
Increases in atmospheric CO2 followed increases in temperature. Therefore, CO2 levels could not have forced temperatures to rise.
Source: Heartland Institute, Craig Idso, Fred Singer, Robert Carter, 2025-03-01 -
Misleading
In CNN interview, William Happer misleads about the impact of rising carbon dioxide on plant life
Claim:
there's this myth that's developed around carbon dioxide that it's a pollutant […] Carbon dioxide is a perfectly natural gas, it’s just like water vapor, it’s something that plants love.
Source: CNN, William Happer, 2017-04-22
