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Articles tagged with: Greenhouse gas emissions
ARTICLE REVIEWS
Guardian story on climate impacts of diet gets mixed reviews from scientists
in The Guardian, by Damian Carrington
— 23 Jan 2019
"The word “Avoiding” in title and text is overly strong and should have been “Reducing”. Adopting a vegan diet is not necessary, but a reduction to having meat 1-2 times a ..
Guardian story accurately describes study on environmental impacts of our food system
in The Guardian, by Damian Carrington
— 17 Oct 2018
"Although the presented facts are clear, the scientists give a personal interpretation of the priorities and needed policies, which are not covered in the source. The data give add..
Guardian story conveys statement by scientists stressing role of deforestation in climate change
in The Guardian, by Oliver Milman
— 09 Oct 2018
"The article correctly links estimates of current carbon dioxide emissions from land use and land cover change with fairly conservative estimates for potential carbon sequestration..
The Australian publishes “deeply ill-informed” opinion on climate by Ian Plimer
in The Australian, by Ian Plimer
— 09 Aug 2018
"This article is an amalgamation of logical fallacies, misleading talking points, and downright factually incorrect statements regarding the physics of the climate system. Every ta..
Commentary in The Australian ignores evidence and misrepresents research while falsely claiming humans are not responsible for climate change
in The Australian, by Ian Plimer
— 26 Oct 2017
"Yet another in the exhausting heap of opinions choosing not to engage with evidence, while still expecting readers to believe inaccurate and baseless claims. It is baffling why pu..
New York Times’ “straightforward answers” to common climate questions are accurate, too
in The New York Times, by Justin Gillis
— 28 Sep 2017
This article in The New York Times serves as a primer by briefly answering seventeen basic questions about the cause and consequences of—and possible solutions to—climate chang...
Daily Wire article misunderstands study on carbon budget (along with Fox News, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Breitbart…)
in The Daily Wire, by James Barrett
— 21 Sep 2017
"The article selectively quotes from interviews and scientific papers to create the false perception that climate models significantly overestimate the rate of warming. The article..
Playing semantics, misleading Breitbart article downplays US contribution to climate change
in Breitbart, by Thomas D. Williams
— 06 Jun 2017
"This whole post is based on semantics and basically one big strawman fallacy. The author is deliberately confusing air pollution from suspended particulate matter (as discussed in..
In Paris Agreement op-ed, US Senator Ted Cruz misrepresents the costs and benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions
in CNN, by Senator Ted Cruz
— 31 May 2017
Sen. Cruz’s article cites a single report that assessed only the costs of climate actions, relying on a series of assumptions that maximized those estimated costs, and that exclu...
Analysis of “James Lovelock: ‘Before the end of this century, robots will have taken over’”
in The Guardian, by Decca Aitkenhead & James Lovelock
— 07 Oct 2016
"Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence, and Lovelock has not even come up to the standards of providing what the scientific community would consider to be ordinary evi..
CLAIM REVIEWS
Human-induced increases in greenhouse gases are the primary driver of global warming, contrary to claims in CFACT article
CLAIM
They tell us that we are the primary forces controlling earth temperatures by the burning of fossil fuels and releasing their carbon dioxide. I hope my readers can recognize the absurdity of their claims. … increasing sunspots are linked to increases in earth temperature
SOURCE: Jay Lehr, CFACT
Published: 15 Apr 2020
VERDICT
Simple measurements demonstrate that CO2 is a greenhouse gas contrary to claim in online blogs
CLAIM
CO2 is not a greenhouse gas.
SOURCE: Tim Ball, Technocracy.news
Published: 14 Jan 2020
VERDICT
Volcanic CO2 emissions are known to be much smaller than human-caused emissions
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Discovery Of Massive Volcanic CO2 Emissions Discredits Global Warming Theory
SOURCE: James Edward Kamis, Principia Scientific
Published: 03 Jan 2020
VERDICT
Human activities release far more carbon dioxide than volcanoes do
CLAIM
That one little burp by Mt. Etna has already put more than 10,000 times the CO2 into the atmosphere than mankind has in our entire time on the Earth
SOURCE: Anonymous, Facebook post
Published: 31 Oct 2019
VERDICT
Rick Perry’s claim that US is “leading the world” in emission cuts is misleading
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I think about all the 194 [countries] that signed onto the Paris accord, the U.S. is the one that's leading the world in reducing emissions
SOURCE: Rick Perry, Fox News
Published: 20 Aug 2019
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Claim that cows have more impact on climate than cars depends on the timescale
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Burping cows are more damaging to the climate than all the cars on this planet.
SOURCE: Barclay's, Financial Times
Published: 21 Feb 2019
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Ian Plimer wrongly claims that carbon dioxide emissions do not cause climate change
CLAIM
there is no relationship between temperature and carbon dioxide emissions by humans[...] carbon dioxide has had a minuscule effect on global climate
SOURCE: Ian Plimer, The Australian
Published: 11 Aug 2018
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