Misleading
Earth was hotter in the past, but that doesn’t make humans safer from modern climate change
Claim:
It is not too hot now. Temperatures and CO2 are lower now than they have been throughout nearly the entire history of the Earth.
Articles tagged with
Paleoclimate
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Source: Wide Awake Media, X/Twitter, Patrick Moore, 2025-01-07 -
IncorrectRecent global warming driven by human CO2 emissions, not ‘little ice age’ or urban heat island effects
Claim:
“even IF mankind is influencing the temperature, it is insignificant compared to the natural forces”
Source: Facebook, Steve Milloy, 2024-11-10 -
AccurateAtmospheric CO2 concentrations rising faster today than the last 50,000 years, as accurately claimed in recent social media posts
Claim:
CO2 concentrations are increasing in Earth’s atmosphere faster than they have in the last 50,000 years.
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2024-05-14 -
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Review of Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth) reveals numerous, well-known misinformation talking points and inaccuracies
On 21 March 2024, a movie titled “Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth)” was released on YouTube, and widely shared…
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Inaccurate
Temperatures on Earth are increasing and the rise is drastically outpacing previous natural changes in the planet’s climate
Claim:
“We have been cooling down for the past 4000 years”; the Earth has cooled since the ‘medieval warming’, “It’s all about when you start the measurements”
Source: Media Research Center, Ian Plimer, 2023-05-02 -
Flawed reasoning
Pre-human changes in climate do not negate contemporary human influence on modern warming, contrary to implication in popular Instagram post
Claim:
Climate changed naturally in prehistoric eras, modern climate change is a naturally occurring phenomenon
Source: Instagram, Social media users, 2023-01-17 -
Inaccurate
Link between CO2 and Earth’s temperature is well-established, despite claims on Fox News
Claim:
Scientists have found no consistent correlation between CO2 and temperature; scientists do not know whether earth will warm or cool in future
Source: Fox News, Tom Harris, 2022-10-12 -
Flawed reasoning
Scientists have found that modern climate change is caused entirely by human activity, contrary to recent speculation by Joe Rogan
Claim:
“The question is, ‘how much of an impact do we have on [climate]?’ That has not totally been quantified”; climate change is happening anyway, “The ice age happened without us…It’s probably this constant cycle”.
Source: The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan, 2022-10-02 -
Incorrect
Carbon dioxide emissions by humans are the major driver of modern climate change, contrary to Jerome Corsi’s claims in CBN News video
Claim:
Carbon dioxide is not a climate heat driver; we had an ice age when the Earth had extraordinarily larger amounts of carbon dioxide; in the 1970s scientists thought we were going to have a new ice age.
Source: CBN News, Jerome Corsi, 2022-07-29
