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…
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Global temperature
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InaccurateLord Lawson falsely claims that global temperatures have declined over last decade
Claim:
according, again, to the official figures—during this past 10 years, if anything, mean global temperature, average world temperature, has slightly declined
Source: BBC, Nigel Lawson, 2017-08-10 -
1High2017 is on track to be among the hottest year recorded, scientists are not as surprised as ThinkProgress article suggests
The scientists who have reviewed the article confirm it accurately reports that 2017 is on track to being one of the warmest years on record. Reviewers note this wasn’t as unexpected as the article states, but the fact that 2017 global surface temperature are that high is a clear reminder that global warming has not stopped or slowed down.
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-1.8Very lowBreitbart article falsely claims that measured global warming has been “fabricated”
“In a cursory attempt at both reporting and climate science, the author glibly highlights a document heavy on accusation and light on reasoned engagement with fact. Implying nefarious motives behind temperature measurement bias correction without providing readers any indication of why this is necessary is misleading and a dereliction of the author’s journalistic responsibility.”
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Breitbart misrepresents research from 58 scientific papers to falsely claim that they disprove human-caused global warming
“This article grossly misinterprets open-access scientific papers by simply looking at graphs and entirely ignoring their meaning as explained by authors in the text.”
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Inaccurate
Breitbart falsely claims 58 studies refute human-caused global warming
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'Global warming' is a myth — so say 80 graphs from 58 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2017.
Source: Breitbart, James Delingpole, 2017-06-06 -
Inaccurate
Global warming has not “ceased”, as Heartland Institute report falsely claims
Claim:
global warming ceased around the end of the twentieth century and was followed (since 1997) by 19 years of stable temperature
Source: Heartland Institute, Craig Idso, Fred Singer, Robert Carter, 2025-04-21 -
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The Telegraph publishes false information about Arctic climate
“This article suffers from a common error in reasoning. The author focuses on individual “snapshots” of the state of the climate while ignoring the long-term trends. Those trends occur over many decades and must be observed/considered over those time scales.”
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Misleading
Climate sensitivity estimate given in Heartland Institute’s report is misleading
Claim:
Doubling the concentration of atmospheric CO2 from its pre-industrial level, in the absence of other forcings and feedbacks, would likely cause a warming of ~0.3°C to 1.1°C
Source: Heartland Institute, Craig Idso, Fred Singer, Robert Carter, 2025-04-21 -
Incorrect
In CNN interview, William Happer incorrectly claims temperatures don’t match climate model projections
Claim:
The temperature is not rising nearly as fast as the alarmist computer models predicted. You know, it’s much, much less, factors of 2 or 3 less.
Source: CNN, William Happer, 2017-04-22
