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Rush Limbaugh falsely claims there is no evidence of human-caused global warming
Claim:
There isn’t yet any empirical evidence for their claim that greenhouse gases even cause temperatures to increase.
Articles tagged with
Global temperature
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Source: The Rush Limbaugh Show, Rush Limbaugh, 2018-04-02 -
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 -
2Very high
New York Times’ news coverage of 2016 global temperature data was an accurate summary
“A clear and accurate article on the temperature record in 2016, looking back at the records in 2015 and 2014. The article places them in the proper context of long-term warming, while mentioning the special effect that helped make the year a record.”
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Daily Caller uncritically reports poorly supported conclusion of satellite temperature study
“The absence of accelerating warming trends is meant to go against prevailing climate science, but I find that to be a strawman argument. In that sense the article is misleading—however, to its credit, it does report on other published results that contradict this recent study, but it fails to provide further context or to make any effort to compare/reconcile the validity of these different studies.”
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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. -
Inaccurate
Former 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 -
Incorrect
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 -
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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Incorrect
Incorrect claim that global warming is mostly natural was based on a study that can’t support that conclusion
Claim:
Most of the recent warming could be natural
Source: The Spectator, Jennifer Marohasy, 2017-08-21 -
BBC Today airs false statements by Lord Lawson in the name of balance
On Thursday August 10, BBC Radio 4’s “Today” broadcasted an interview in which Nigel Lawson commented on Al Gore’s new…
