Misleading
What’s worse: lithium mining or oil extraction? Viral social media posts suggest misleading answers to complex question.
Claim:
Lithium mining for electric cars has a greater environmental impact than oil extraction for gas cars.
Articles tagged with
Fossil Fuels
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Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2024-08-16 -
IncorrectDead things transform into fossil fuels in Earth’s crust over millions of years; no evidence of deeper origins or renewable source
Claim:
Oil and gas are not "fossil fuels"; they are a renewable energy source generated in Earth's deeper interior (i.e., upper mantle)
Source: X/Twitter, Robin Monotti, 2024-05-25 -
Incorrect
Carbon isotopes do not show that humans’ climate impacts are too small to notice, despite the Daily Sceptic’s inaccurate claim
Claim:
Human-caused carbon emissions’ effect on climate is ‘non-discernible’. Measurements of carbon isotope ratios in atmospheric CO2 indicate that it is the recent expansion of a more productive biosphere that has led to increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere.
Source: Daily Sceptic, Chris Morrison, 2024-04-08 -
How much of a climate solution can technologies such as carbon capture and storage be?
Science has shown consistently that adding CO2 to the atmosphere is changing the climate in various ways, including raising the…
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Wind turbines can kill birds, but not as many as fossil fuels and other anthropogenic impacts
“It is true that renewable energy developments like solar and wind farms (along with the power lines to connect them to the grid) can impact negatively on birds and other wildlife, but compared to other human driven causes of bird mortality the impact remains small,” noted Aldina Franco, an avian ecologist at the University of East Anglia.
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Incorrect
Scientific studies established clear links between human-caused increased in atmospheric CO2 and global warming
Claim:
“It’s a good thing that we are putting some more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The scientific method has not been applied in such a way as to prove that carbon dioxide is causing the Earth to warm.”
Source: Instagram, Patrick Moore, 2020-12-16 -
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 -
Inaccurate
False claim that wind turbines generate more global warming than fossil fuels misrepresents study it relies on
Claim:
Harvard study finds that wind turbines create MORE global warming than the fossil fuels they eliminate
Source: Natural News, Ecology.news, Ethan Huff, 2019-08-26
