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Articles tagged with: Datasets
ARTICLE REVIEWS
Telegraph article on climate change mixes accurate and unsupported, inaccurate claims, misleads with false balance
in The Telegraph, by Sarah Knapton
— 18 Oct 2019
"This article is a prime example of false equivalence, putting fringe figures side by side with mainstream scientific findings while failing to distinguish between their respective..
CLAIM REVIEWS
Warming 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: Chris Morrison, Daily Sceptic
Published: 09 Jun 2022
VERDICT
NOAA does not fraudulently adjust data to create the illusion of a global warming trend
CLAIM
Using complex statistical models, [NOAA] change[s] the data to reflect not reality, but their underlying theories of global warming.
SOURCE: Anonymous, Investor's Business Daily
Published: 19 Feb 2020
VERDICT
Hosted by former Australian senator, Tony Heller repeats false claim that scientists fake the warming trend
CLAIM
[T]he raw data, the actual thermometer data[...] shows that the US has been cooling for 80 to 90 years. But the graphs they release to the public show warming trend, and it's all because they've altered the data.
SOURCE: Tony Heller, EXOMATRIXTV
Published: 05 Aug 2019
VERDICT
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: Tony Abbott, Global Warming Policy Foundation
Published: 11 Oct 2017
VERDICT
Daily Mail inflates data handling disagreement between scientists; makes unsupported “manipulation” accusation
CLAIM
world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data
SOURCE: David Rose, Daily Mail
Published: 06 Feb 2017
VERDICT
The Wall Street Journal fails to acknowledge that 2016 was the warmest year on record
CLAIM
no one really knows if last year (2016) was a (global temperature) record
SOURCE: Wall Street Journal editorial, The Wall Street Journal
Published: 27 Jan 2017
VERDICT
INSIGHTS
Here is who repeated an unsupported claim about “a complete cure for cancer in a year”, misleading millions on social media
— 15 Feb 2019
Another purported cure-all for cancer A claim that the “first complete cure for cancer” had been discovered by an Israeli startup made waves on the Internet recently. This clai...
Climate misinformation video reaches broad audience with help from Youtube recommendation algorithm
— 21 Dec 2018
YouTube's recommendation algorithm recently began promoting a video about climate change on dozens of popular Youtube channels; the video has been promoted to between 300,000 and 2...
False claims of a coming ice age spread through ecosystem of unreliable news sites, blogs, and social media accounts
— 21 Nov 2018
Similar claims that we would be heading towards an imminent “mini ice age” were also repeated without verification throughout a network of unreliable outlets for climate news ...
False claim that global warming is natural propagates in a climate misinformation echo-chamber
— 14 Sep 2017
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 “...
How the blogosphere spread and amplified the Daily Mail’s unsupported allegations of climate data manipulation
— 27 Mar 2017
Early last month, British tabloid the Daily Mail published an article accusing the former director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of rushing to pub...