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Articles tagged with: Paleoclimate
ARTICLE REVIEWS
Ian Plimer op-ed in The Australian again presents long list of false claims about climate
in The Australian, by Ian Plimer
— 26 Nov 2019
"This article is a mixture of misdirection, misleading claims, and outright falsehoods. The author attempts to paint a picture of current climate change as simply a continuation of..
NBC News story accurately covers research on two millennia of climate history
in NBC News, by Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky
— 30 Jul 2019
"This accurately describes new peer-reviewed research and asks independent scientists with relevant expertise to provide important context, such as how these results rely on limite..
Breitbart article baselessly claims a study of past climate invalidates human-caused climate change
in Breitbart, by John Nolte
— 11 Apr 2019
"By the reasoning of this article, if a rock rolled down a hill three million years ago, no human can be responsible for rolling a rock down a hill today. The fallaciousness of thi..
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..
USA Today story accurate but lacks clarity regarding timescales over which warming could be underestimated
in USA Today, by Doyle Rice
— 10 Jul 2018
"An accurate and balanced article that gives readers a good flavour of the research but the reference to “Earth’s history” might confuse some when it otherwise refers to the ..
The Independent makes a giant leap in stating that modern global warming could be “worse than thought” based on a single study
in The Independent, by Andrew Griffin
— 01 Nov 2017
"The article reports on a paper which suggests there may be complications with ONE method we use to determine past ocean temperature. Notwithstanding possible flaws in the methods ..
Breitbart misrepresents research from 58 scientific papers to falsely claim that they disprove human-caused global warming
in Breitbart, by James Delingpole
— 08 Jun 2017
"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.
Analysis of “Scientists: Here’s What Really Causes Climate Change (And It Has Nothing To Do With Human Beings)”
in The Daily Wire, by James Barrett
— 28 Feb 2017
"The article misuses a Nature article on a geological process 90 millions years ago to argue the warming of the past century is not anthropogenic. It seems the reasoning is ideolog..
Analysis of “What we’re doing to the Earth has no parallel in 66 million years, scientists say”
in The Washington Post, by Chris Mooney
— 23 Mar 2016
"It sadly implies that even the PETM, a massive warm climatic excursion, might not be harsh enough to represent an analogue for future climate change, as the Washington Post rightf..
Analysis of “Scientists say human greenhouse gas emissions have canceled the next ice age”
in The Washington Post, by Chris Mooney
— 18 Jan 2016
"The article presents an accurate account of recently published research which suggests that human-induced global warming will delay the onset of the next ice age by 50,000 years. ..
CLAIM REVIEWS
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: Social media user, Instagram
Published: 23 Jan 2023
VERDICT
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: Tom Harris , Fox News
Published: 18 Oct 2022
VERDICT
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: Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience
Published: 11 Oct 2022
VERDICT
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: Jerome Corsi, CBN News
Published: 05 Aug 2022
VERDICT
Sea levels rose faster in the past century than in previous time periods
CLAIM
Sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization
SOURCE: Thomas Lifson, American Thinker
Published: 12 Mar 2020
VERDICT
Current climate warming is rapid and occurring on a global scale, unlike past periods of regional climate fluctuations
CLAIM
Of course the climate is changing. It always has. It always will.
SOURCE: Patrick Moore, PragerU
Published: 21 Feb 2020
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Facebook meme incorrectly claims past climate variations contradict human influence on current climate
CLAIM
The idea that 'climate change' is new or is caused by Humans is nonsense.
SOURCE: Anonymous, Facebook
Published: 13 Jan 2020
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Claim of a coming ice age misrepresents the study it relies on
CLAIM
Scientists studying Antarctica sea ice warn a rise in accumulation could spark the next ice age.
SOURCE: Stacy Liberatore, Chris Ciaccia, Daily Mail, Fox News
Published: 01 Nov 2019
VERDICT
Claim that the Earth has cooled since Medieval or Roman times is contradicted by available data
CLAIM
Peer-reviewed studies, geologic records, and all the studies have shown that we have actually cooled since the Roman Warming Period, and likely since the Medieval Warming Period.
SOURCE: Marc Morano, TFP Student Action
Published: 09 Sep 2019
VERDICT
Research does not show a Medieval Warm Period warmer than the present day
CLAIM
18 proxies tell us the world was the same or warmer 1,000 years ago
SOURCE: Joanne Nova, joannenova.com.au
Published: 05 Aug 2019
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INSIGHTS
Explainer: How the rise and fall of CO2 levels influenced the ice ages
— 02 Jun 2021
The Earth’s climate has been quite stable over the past 11,000 years, playing an important role in the development of human civilisation. Prior to that, the Earth experienced an ...
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 “...