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As world leaders met at the COP26 summit to debate how to tackle climate change, misleading claims and falsehoods about the climate spiralled on social media.
Nov 25, 2019 · Environmental journalists and advocates have in recent weeks made a number of apocalyptic predictions about the impact of climate change. Bill McKibben suggested climate-driven fires in...
Feb 7, 2018 · In our paper we examined arguments against climate change that are framed as definitive claims. A claim is definitive when it says something is definitely the case, rather than being probable...
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Nov 30, 2009 · For now, at least, cosmic rays remain a less plausible culprit in climate change. And the apparent warming seen on Mars? Because it is based on a very small base of measurements, it may not...
- Climate change is just part of the natural cycle. The climate of the Earth has always changed, but the study of palaeoclimatology or “past climates” shows us that the changes in the last 150 years – since the start of the industrial revolution – have been exceptional and cannot be natural.
- Changes are due to sunspots/galactic cosmic rays. Sunspots are storms on the sun’s surface that come with intense magnetic activity and can be accompanied by solar flares.
- CO₂ is a small part of the atmosphere – it can’t have a large heating affect. This is an attempt to play a classic common-sense card but is completely wrong.
- Scientists manipulate all data sets to show a warming trend. This is not true and a simplistic device used to attack the credibility of climate scientists.
Jun 4, 2024 · Myth #1: Climate change has always happened, so we should not worry about it. It is true that the planet’s temperature has long fluctuated, with periods of warming and cooling. But since the last ice age 10,000 years ago, the climate has been relatively stable, which scientists say has been crucial to the development of human civilization.
Sarah Ott spent years believing climate change was a hoax, influenced by friends at church in the US south and a popular right-wing radio host. Here she shares her journey from being a...
