Misleading
Temporary cooling of part of the Atlantic does not question the existence or severity of global warming
Claim:
The Atlantic is cooling, and scientists don’t know why.
Articles tagged with
Global warming
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Source: Steve Milloy, 2024-08-25 -
Mostly accuratePrioritizing plant-based foods in our diet can benefit climate and health, but Forbes article missed some key details
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Prioritizing plant-based foods and reducing overconsumption of animal-based protein is healthier and reduces greenhouse gas emissions
Source: Forbes, Simi Thambi, 2024-08-28 -
How CO2 warms Earth through the greenhouse effect and why CO2 is not ‘saturated’ in Earth’s atmosphere
There is no doubt about it – climate science can be complex. But sometimes this complexity is mistaken for uncertainty.…
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IncorrectArctic sea ice has been melting over the past decades with projections for summer ice-free conditions by mid-century
Claim:
Arctic sea ice is not melting and there is no indication that we should expect the Arctic sea summer ice to disappear completely, as predicted
Source: The Epoch Times, Allan Astrup Jensen, 2024-02-06 -
InaccurateUncertainties about future climate change in the 1970’s does not invalidate today’s evidence on the reality of global warming
Claim:
Scientists predicted global cooling and were wrong, so they are wrong about global warming
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2023-12-09 -
InaccurateWall Street Journal article questions decades of scientific evidence demonstrating elevated atmospheric-CO2 causes global warming
Claim:
We do not know if CO2 is the cause of global warming
Source: The Wall Street Journal, Holman W. Jenkins, 2023-11-03 -
What’s in a number? The significance of the 1.5°C warming threshold and reporting on its possible breach in popular media
These findings were widely covered by popular media outlets, including in articles published by The Guardian, CNN, and BBC, which all reported that this temperature increase would represent a breach of the key IPCC threshold. However, this is missing some important context.
“A single year above 1.5°C does not mean the world has passed that particular warming level”, said Zeke Hausfather. Such nuance was better captured by articles published in Reuters and Axios, which both correctly did not report that these new temperature projections, if realized, would constitute a breach of the threshold. -
Different parts of the planet warm more quickly than others. That doesn’t mean climate change isn’t happening.
If you’re even a casual consumer of climate news, you probably know that some parts of the globe are warming more rapidly than others. Scientists have known for years, for instance, that the Arctic is heating up at a faster clip than the global average, and recently, the region made headlines after a study showed that the northernmost reaches of our planet are warming four times faster than the rest of the Earth.
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IncorrectThe sun isn’t responsible for current climate change, contrary to claims in Suspicious0bservers YouTube video
Claim:
Scientists have neglected the effect of solar particles, cosmic rays, the interplanetary magnetic field and Earth's weakening magnetic field to conclude climate change is due to human activity
Source: Suspicious0bservers, Ben Davidson, 2022-07-14 -
IncorrectWarming of Earth’s surface and oceans continues apace, contrary to claims in blog
Claim:
”Global warming started to run out of steam over two decades ago… Half of the apparent global temperature increase from January 1910 to January 2000 is due to administrative adjustments.”
Source: Daily Sceptic, Chris Morrison, 2022-05-19
