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NOAA does not fraudulently adjust data to create the illusion of a global warming trend
Claim:
Using complex statistical models, [NOAA] change[s] the data to reflect not reality, but their underlying theories of global warming.
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Source: Investors' Business Daily, Anonymous, 2018-03-29 -
-1.7Very lowTelegraph article on climate change mixes accurate and unsupported, inaccurate claims, misleads with false balance
“This article is a prime example of false equivalence, putting fringe figures side by side with mainstream scientific findings while failing to distinguish between their respective credibility. It is rife with numerous factual errors and misrepresentations. Anyone unfortunate enough to read it will understand less of the science – as actually appears in peer-reviewed publications and conferences – not more.”
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InaccurateHosted by former Australian senator, Tony Heller repeats false claim that scientists fake the warming trend
Claim:
[T]he raw data, the actual thermometer data[...] shows that the US has been cooling for 80 to 90 years. But the graphs they release to the public show warming trend, and it's all because they've altered the data.
Source: EXOMATRIXTV, Tony Heller, 2019-07-20 -
Here is who repeated an unsupported claim about “a complete cure for cancer in a year”, misleading millions on social media
Another purported cure-all for cancer A claim that the “first complete cure for cancer” had been discovered by an Israeli…
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Climate misinformation video reaches broad audience with help from Youtube recommendation algorithm
YouTube’s recommendation algorithm recently began promoting a video about climate change on dozens of popular Youtube channels; the video has been promoted to between 300,000 and 2,000,000 people according to AlgoTransparency.
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False claims of a coming ice age spread through ecosystem of unreliable news sites, blogs, and social media accounts
Similar claims that we would be heading towards an imminent “mini ice age” were also repeated without verification throughout a network of unreliable outlets for climate news including Sputnik, The Sun, Fox News, and numerous hyper-partisan blogs such as Zero Hedge, Principia Scientific, IceAgeNow, Alien-Star…
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Breitbart repeats blogger’s unsupported claim that NOAA manipulates data to exaggerate warming
Claim:
NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were.
Source: Breitbart, James Delingpole, 2018-02-20 -
InaccurateFormer Prime Minister Tony Abbott wrongly claims Australia has warmed far less than data show
Claim:
unadjusted data suggests that temperatures in Australia have only increased by 0.3 degrees over the past century, not the 1 degree usually claimed
Source: Global Warming Policy Foundation, Tony Abbott, 2017-10-09 -
False claim that global warming is natural propagates in a climate misinformation echo-chamber
The diagram below shows that the articles mostly rely heavily on each other—like in an echo chamber—with very few outside sources included in the reporting. A first wave of “reporting” appeared in The Spectator, The Daily Caller, The Daily Wire, and Breitbart, which were then largely copied and pasted in a second wave of posts with larger audiences…
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How the blogosphere spread and amplified the Daily Mail’s unsupported allegations of climate data manipulation
Early last month, British tabloid the Daily Mail published an article accusing the former director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…
