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| 0,https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-sea-is-rising-but-not-because-of-climate-change-1526423254,The noted oceanographer Walter Munk referred to sea-level rise as an “ enigma ” ; it has also been called a riddle and a puzzle .,fallacy of credibility | |
| 1,https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-sea-is-rising-but-not-because-of-climate-change-1526423254,I therefore conclude—contrary to the general wisdom—that the temperature of sea water has no direct effect on sea-level rise .,fallacy of logic | |
| 2,https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-sea-is-rising-but-not-because-of-climate-change-1526423254,"The onset of a new glaciation could cause the sea level to stop rising . It could even fall 400 feet , to the level at the last glaciation maximum 18,000 years ago .",fallacy of extension | |
| 3,https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-sea-is-rising-but-not-because-of-climate-change-1526423254,"Currently , sea-level rise does not seem to depend on ocean temperature , and certainly not on CO2 .",false dilemma | |
| 4,https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-sea-is-rising-but-not-because-of-climate-change-1526423254,"I conclude that it must be ice accumulation , through evaporation of ocean water , and subsequent precipitation turning into ice . Evidence suggests that accumulation of ice on the Antarctic continent has been offsetting the steric effect for at least several centuries .",false causality | |
| 5,https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-sea-is-rising-but-not-because-of-climate-change-1526423254,"Of course , a lot can happen in 7,000 years . The onset of a new glaciation could cause the sea level to stop rising .",fallacy of logic | |
| 6,https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-sea-is-rising-but-not-because-of-climate-change-1526423254,There is nothing we can do about rising sea levels in the meantime .,fallacy of logic | |
| 7,https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-sea-is-rising-but-not-because-of-climate-change-1526423254,"But by studying a very short time interval , it is possible to sidestep most of the complications , like “ isostatic adjustment ” of the shoreline ( as continents rise after the overlying ice has melted ) and “ subsidence ” of the shoreline ( as ground water and minerals are extracted ) .",intentional | |
| 8,https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-sea-is-rising-but-not-because-of-climate-change-1526423254,"I chose to assess the sea-level trend from 1915-45 , when a genuine , independently confirmed warming of approximately 0.5 degree Celsius occurred . I note particularly that sea-level rise is not affected by the warming ; it continues at the same rate , 1.8 millimeters a year , according to a 1990 review by Andrew S. Trupin and John Wahr .",intentional | |
| 9,https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-sea-is-rising-but-not-because-of-climate-change-1526423254,"I note particularly that sea-level rise is not affected by the warming ; it continues at the same rate , 1.8 millimeters a year , according to a 1990 review by Andrew S. Trupin and John Wahr . I therefore conclude—contrary to the general wisdom—that the temperature of sea water has no direct effect on sea-level rise .",fallacy of credibility | |
| 10,https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-sea-is-rising-but-not-because-of-climate-change-1526423254,Yet there is little heat available in the Antarctic to support melting .,fallacy of relevance | |
| 11,https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-sea-is-rising-but-not-because-of-climate-change-1526423254,By 2100 the seas will rise another 6 inches or so—a far cry from Al Gore ’ s alarming numbers .,ad populum | |
| 12,https://clintel.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ED-brochureversieNWA4.pdf,"The Little Ice Age | |
| ended as recently as 1850 . Therefore , it is no surprise that we now are expe riencing a period of warming .",false causality | |
| 13,https://clintel.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ED-brochureversieNWA4.pdf,Only very few peer-reviewed papers even go so far as to say that recent warming is chiefly anthropogenic .,intentional | |
| 14,https://clintel.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ED-brochureversieNWA4.pdf,Warming is far slower than predicted,intentional | |
| 15,https://clintel.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ED-brochureversieNWA4.pdf,It tells us that we are far from understanding climate change .,intentional | |
| 16,https://clintel.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ED-brochureversieNWA4.pdf,"Climate policy relies on inadequate models | |
| Climate models have many shortcomings and are not remotely plausible as policy tools .",faulty generalization | |
| 17,https://clintel.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ED-brochureversieNWA4.pdf,Natural as well as anthropogenic factors cause warming,fallacy of credibility | |
| 18,https://clintel.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ED-brochureversieNWA4.pdf,"The geological archive reveals that Earth ’ s climate has varied as long as the planet has existed , with natural cold and warm phases .",fallacy of credibility | |
| 19,https://clintel.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ED-brochureversieNWA4.pdf,"Climate science should be less political , while climate policies should be more scientific . Scientists should openly address the uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming , while politicians should dispassionately count the real benefits as well as the imagined costs of adaptation to global warming , and the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of mitigation .",intentional | |
| 20,https://clintel.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ED-brochureversieNWA4.pdf,A global network of 500 scientists and professionals has prepared this urgent message .,fallacy of credibility | |
| 21,https://clintel.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ED-brochureversieNWA4.pdf,A global network of 500 scientists and professionals has prepared this urgent message .,ad populum | |
| 22,https://clintel.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ED-brochureversieNWA4.pdf,"In addition , they ignore the fact that enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is beneficial . CO2 is plant food , the basis of all life on Earth | |
| CO2 is not a pollutant .",fallacy of relevance | |
| 23,https://clintel.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ED-brochureversieNWA4.pdf,"CO2 is plant food , the basis of all life on Earth | |
| CO2 is not a pollutant . It is essential to all life on Earth . Photosynthesis is a blessing . More CO2 is beneficial for nature , greening the Earth : additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass . It is also good for agriculture , increasing the yields of crops worldwide .",fallacy of relevance | |
| 24,https://clintel.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ED-brochureversieNWA4.pdf,"For instance , wind turbines kill birds and insects , and palm-oil plantations destroy the biodiversity of the rainforests .",intentional | |
| 25,http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-all-those-warming-climate-predictions-suddenly-have-a-big-new-problem,"It shows that ECS is probably between two and 4.5 degrees , possibly as low as 1.5 but not lower , and possibly as high as nine degrees .",intentional | |
| 26,http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-all-those-warming-climate-predictions-suddenly-have-a-big-new-problem,The surprising thing is that the Energy Balance estimates are very low compared to model-based estimates .,intentional | |
| 27,http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-all-those-warming-climate-predictions-suddenly-have-a-big-new-problem,"But if ECS is high — say , around four degrees or more — then climate change is probably a big problem . We may not be able to stop it , but we ’ d better get ready to adapt to it .",intentional | |
| 28,http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-all-those-warming-climate-predictions-suddenly-have-a-big-new-problem,"People who study the impacts of global warming have found that if ECS is low — say , less than two — then the impacts of global warming on the economy will be mostly small and , in many places , mildly beneficial .",intentional | |
| 29,http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-all-those-warming-climate-predictions-suddenly-have-a-big-new-problem,"If it is very low , for instance around one , it means greenhouse gas emissions are simply not worth doing anything about . But if ECS is high — say , around four degrees or more — then climate change is probably a big problem . We may not be able to stop it , but we ’ d better get ready to adapt to it .",false dilemma | |
| 30,http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-all-those-warming-climate-predictions-suddenly-have-a-big-new-problem,"People who study the impacts of global warming have found that if ECS is low — say , less than two — then the impacts of global warming on the economy will be mostly small and , in many places , mildly beneficial .",intentional | |
| 31,http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-all-those-warming-climate-predictions-suddenly-have-a-big-new-problem,A recent Energy Balance ECS estimate was just published in the Journal of Climate by Nicholas Lewis and Judith Curry .,intentional | |
| 32,http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-all-those-warming-climate-predictions-suddenly-have-a-big-new-problem,"But it is part of a long list of studies from independent teams ( as this interactive graphic shows ) , using a variety of methods that take account of critical challenges , all of which conclude that climate models exhibit too much sensitivity to greenhouse gases .",intentional | |
| 33,http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-all-those-warming-climate-predictions-suddenly-have-a-big-new-problem,"The result was that the estimated economic damages of greenhouse gas emissions fell by between 40 and 80 per cent , and in the case of one model the damages had a 40 per cent probability of being negative for the next few decades — that is , they would be beneficial changes .",intentional | |
| 34,http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-all-those-warming-climate-predictions-suddenly-have-a-big-new-problem,"The new Lewis and Curry ECS estimate is even lower than their old one , so if we re-did the same study we would find even lower social costs of carbon .",faulty generalization | |
| 35,http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-all-those-warming-climate-predictions-suddenly-have-a-big-new-problem,"If ECS is as low as the Energy Balance literature suggests , it means that the climate models we have been using for decades run too hot and need to be revised .",intentional | |
| 36,http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-all-those-warming-climate-predictions-suddenly-have-a-big-new-problem,"First , they rely on IPCC estimates of greenhouse gases , solar changes and other climate forcings , so they can ’ t be accused of putting a finger on the scale by their choice of data .",fallacy of credibility | |
| 37,http://www.dailywire.com/news/21275/climate-scientists-climate-models-have-james-barrett#,The report in part intends to `` reset '' the estimations for the new predictions on when the earth will hit what the U.N. has determined to be dangerous warming levels .,intentional | |
| 38,http://www.dailywire.com/news/21275/climate-scientists-climate-models-have-james-barrett#,"So , therefore , they derive a budget which is much lower , '' he added .",false causality | |
| 39,http://www.dailywire.com/news/21275/climate-scientists-climate-models-have-james-barrett#,"A new report published by a team of prominent climate scientists confirms what many skeptics have pointed out for years : the climate models have overestimated the amount of global warming and failed to predict what climatologists call the warming `` hiatus , '' over 20 years of almost no change in temperatures .",false causality | |
| 40,http://www.dailywire.com/news/21275/climate-scientists-climate-models-have-james-barrett#,"`` The models end up with a warming which is larger than the observed warming for the current emissions , '' University of Exerter 's Pierre Friedlingstein , one of the study 's authors , told The Washington Post . ``",false causality | |
| 41,http://www.dailywire.com/news/21275/climate-scientists-climate-models-have-james-barrett#,"A new report published by a team of prominent climate scientists confirms what many skeptics have pointed out for years : the climate models have overestimated the amount of global warming and failed to predict what climatologists call the warming `` hiatus , '' over 20 years of almost no change in temperatures .",fallacy of credibility | |
| 42,http://www.dailywire.com/news/21275/climate-scientists-climate-models-have-james-barrett#,"The report , published in the journal Nature Geoscience on September 18 , acknowledges that most of the models of warming trends failed to predict the `` slowdown '' in warming post-2000 , resulting in less pronounced warming than predicted and thus more room in the CO2 `` emissions budget '' for the coming decades .",fallacy of credibility | |
| 43,http://www.dailywire.com/news/21275/climate-scientists-climate-models-have-james-barrett#,Cato Institute scientists Patrick Michaels and Chip Knappenberger have noted the climate models have been over-hyping warming for decades . Scientist John Christy of the University of Alabama-Huntsville has testified before Congress on the matter . Christy ’ s research has shown climate models show 2.5 times more warming in the bulk atmosphere than has been observed . ...,fallacy of credibility | |
| 44,https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/06/another-arctic-ice-panic-world-temperatures-plummet/,In April the extent of Arctic sea ice was back to where it was in April 13 years ago .,intentional | |
| 45,https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/06/another-arctic-ice-panic-world-temperatures-plummet/,"As for those record temperatures brought in 2016 by an exceptionally strong El Niño , the satellites now show that in recent months global temperatures have plummeted by more that 0.6 degrees : just as happened 17 years ago after a similarly strong El Niño had also made 1998 the “ hottest year on record ” .",false causality | |
| 46,https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/06/another-arctic-ice-panic-world-temperatures-plummet/,This means the global temperature trend has now shown no further warming for 19 years .,intentional | |
| 47,https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/06/another-arctic-ice-panic-world-temperatures-plummet/,In April the extent of Arctic sea ice was back to where it was in April 13 years ago .,fallacy of relevance | |
| 48,https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/06/another-arctic-ice-panic-world-temperatures-plummet/,The Greenland ice cap last winter increased in volume faster than at any time for years .,intentional | |
| 49,https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/06/another-arctic-ice-panic-world-temperatures-plummet/,This means the global temperature trend has now shown no further warming for 19 years .,fallacy of logic | |
| 50,https://archive.thinkprogress.org/no-el-nino-still-hot-39162a5cc5bc/,So it ’ s been a surprise to climate scientists that 2017 has been so remarkably warm — because the last El Niño ended a year ago .,appeal to emotion | |
| 51,https://archive.thinkprogress.org/no-el-nino-still-hot-39162a5cc5bc/,,appeal to emotion | |
| 52,http://www.dailywire.com/news/13817/scientists-we-know-what-really-causes-climate-james-barrett,"`` The impact of astronomical cycles on climate can be quite large , '' explains Meyers , noting as an example the pacing of the Earth ’ s ice ages , which have been reliably matched to periodic changes in the shape of Earth ’ s orbit , and the tilt of our planet on its axis .",false causality | |
| 53,http://www.dailywire.com/news/13817/scientists-we-know-what-really-causes-climate-james-barrett,,fallacy of credibility | |
| 54,http://www.dailywire.com/news/13817/scientists-we-know-what-really-causes-climate-james-barrett,"Over the ages , the subtle variations in the orbits of Earth and Mars , the scientists theorize , have impacted the amount of Earth 's exposure to solar radiation and thus led to shifts in global temperatures and impacting the pattern of Earth 's ice ages .",fallacy of credibility | |
| 55,http://www.dailywire.com/news/13817/scientists-we-know-what-really-causes-climate-james-barrett,Anew study produced by a University of Wisconsin-Madison geoscientist and Northwestern astrophysicist presents an explanation of the fluctuations of the earth 's temperatures that global warming alarmists are going to make sure to bury :,fallacy of credibility | |
| 56,http://www.dailywire.com/news/13817/scientists-we-know-what-really-causes-climate-james-barrett,Anew study produced by a University of Wisconsin-Madison geoscientist and Northwestern astrophysicist presents an explanation of the fluctuations of the earth 's temperatures that global warming alarmists are going to make sure to bury :,ad hominem | |
| 57,http://www.dailywire.com/news/13817/scientists-we-know-what-really-causes-climate-james-barrett,"In an article summarizing the scientists ' findings , which were originally published this week in the journal Nature , the University of Wisconsin-Madison notes that the study `` provides the first hard proof for what scientists call the 'chaotic solar system , ' a theory proposed in 1989 to account for small variations in the present conditions of the solar system . '' Those variations over millions of years `` produce big changes in our planet ’ s climate . ''",equivocation | |
| 58,http://www.dailywire.com/news/13817/scientists-we-know-what-really-causes-climate-james-barrett,"Over the ages , the subtle variations in the orbits of Earth and Mars , the scientists theorize , have impacted the amount of Earth 's exposure to solar radiation and thus led to shifts in global temperatures and impacting the pattern of Earth 's ice ages .",fallacy of relevance | |
| 59,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Global warming alarmists frequently make false and deplorable assertions ( see , for example , my recent column debunking false claims that global warming is causing a decline in wheat production ) , but the Environmental Defense Fund ’ s recent fund-raising mailer , “ 10 Global Warming Effects",ad hominem | |
| 60,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,Open-minded readers should have very little difficulty dismissing the mythical global warming crisis after examining the top 10 assertions in the alarmist playbook .,appeal to emotion | |
| 61,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"While reading how flawed EDF ’ s assertions are , remember these are the very best arguments global warming alarmists can make .",ad hominem | |
| 62,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Global warming alarmists ’ preferred electricity source – wind power – kills nearly 1 million bats every year ( to say nothing of the more than 500,000 birds killed every year ) in the United States alone .",fallacy of relevance | |
| 63,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Ramping up wind power to 10 , 20 , or 30 % of U.S. electricity production would likely increase annual bat kills to 10-to-30 million every year .",fallacy of extension | |
| 64,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Killing 30 million bats every year in response to dubious claims that global warming might once in a great while kill 100,000 bats makes no sense .",fallacy of logic | |
| 65,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Asserting , without any supporting data or evidence , that a disease that prospers in cool climates will become more prevalent as a result of global warming defies objective data and common sense .",false dilemma | |
| 66,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Any attempts to claim global warming will cause a few more Lyme Disease deaths must be weighed against the 36,000 Americans who are killed by the flu each year .",equivocation | |
| 67,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Also , the alarmist assertion that polar ice sheets are melting is simply false .",ad hominem | |
| 68,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"If global warming caused the 2014 Queensland heat wave , why wasn ’ t it as severe as the 1972 Queensland heat wave ?",false causality | |
| 69,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"For people experiencing an increase in vegetation in previously barren regions , this greening of the Earth is welcome and wonderful news .",faulty generalization | |
| 70,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Global warming alarmists claim a greener biosphere with richer and more abundant plant life is horrible and justifies massive , economy-destroying energy restrictions .",fallacy of relevance | |
| 71,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,One can not claim global warming is causing colder winters and then turn around and simultaneously claim global warming is causing warmer winters .,false dilemma | |
| 72,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,Global warming activists ’ propensity for doing so shows just how little value they place in a truthful debate .,ad hominem | |
| 73,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Also , the modest recent warming is producing U.S. and global crop production records virtually every year , creating billions of dollars in new economic and human welfare benefits each and every year . This creates a net economic benefit completely ignored by EDF .",fallacy of relevance | |
| 74,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"For example , DDT had all but eliminated malaria in the United States and on the global stage during the mid-20th century .",false causality | |
| 75,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,One can hardly argue that western pine forests are “ destroying iconic Western forests ” when western forests are becoming denser and more prevalent as the planet warms .,fallacy of logic | |
| 76,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Playing on a general tendency for people to fear change , EDF and global warming alarmists argue that changes in the biosphere that make it richer , lusher , and more conducive to life are changes to be feared and opposed .",false dilemma | |
| 77,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,The U.S. National Institutes of Health have documented how influenza is aided and abetted by cold climate . Any attempt to connect a warmer climate to an increase in Lyme Disease must be accompanied by an acknowledgement of a warmer climate ’ s propensity to reduce influenza incidence and mortality . The net impact of a warmer climate on viruses and diseases such as Lyme Disease and influenza is substantially beneficial and life-saving .,fallacy of relevance | |
| 78,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,Any attempt to connect a warmer climate to an increase in Lyme Disease must be accompanied by an acknowledgement of a warmer climate ’ s propensity to reduce influenza incidence and mortality .,false dilemma | |
| 79,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Global warming alarmists frequently make false and deplorable assertions ( see , for example , my recent column debunking false claims that global warming is causing a decline in wheat production ) , but the Environmental Defense Fund ’ s recent fund-raising mailer , “ 10 Global Warming Effects",fallacy of credibility | |
| 80,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"However , climate realists can make lemonade from EDF ’ s preposterous mailer by using it to show open-minded people the difference between global warming alarmists and global warming truth-tellers . EDF has assembled what it believes to be the 10 most powerful global warming assertions in the alarmists ’ playbook , yet each assertion either backfires on alarmists or has been proven false .",ad hominem | |
| 81,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"While reading how flawed EDF ’ s assertions are , remember these are the very best arguments global warming alarmists can make .",intentional | |
| 82,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Global warming alarmists ’ preferred electricity source – wind power – kills nearly 1 million bats every year ( to say nothing of the more than 500,000 birds killed every year ) in the United States alone . This appalling death toll occurs every year even while wind power produces just 3 % of U.S. electricity .",appeal to emotion | |
| 83,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Ramping up wind power to 10 , 20 , or 30 % of U.S. electricity production would likely increase annual bat kills to 10-to-30 million every year .",faulty generalization | |
| 84,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Killing 30 million bats every year in response to dubious claims that global warming might once in a great while kill 100,000 bats makes no sense .",fallacy of extension | |
| 85,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Just as importantly , alarmists present no evidence that global warming caused the summer heat wave in a notoriously hot desert near the equator . To the contrary , climate change theory and objective data show our recent global warming is occurring primarily in the winter , toward the poles , and at night .",intentional | |
| 86,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Indeed , Queensland ’ s 2014 heat wave paled in comparison to the 1972 heat wave that occurred 42 years of global warming ago . If global warming caused the 2014 Queensland heat wave , why wasn ’ t it as severe as the 1972 Queensland heat wave ?",intentional | |
| 87,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,Blaming every single summer heat wave or extreme weather event on global warming is a stale and discredited tactic in the alarmist playbook .,fallacy of extension | |
| 88,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,Alarmist attempts to frame thriving forests as harmful perfectly illustrate the alarmists ’ proclivity to claim anything and everything – no matter how beneficial – is severely harmful and caused by global warming .,fallacy of extension | |
| 89,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Any attempts to claim global warming will cause a few more Lyme Disease deaths must be weighed against the 36,000 Americans who are killed by the flu each year .",faulty generalization | |
| 90,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,The alarmists ’ asserted national security threat depends on assertions that ( 1 ) global warming is causing a reduction in food and water supplies and ( 2 ) migrations of people to places with more food and water will increase risks of military conflict . Objective facts refute both assertions .,fallacy of logic | |
| 91,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Longer growing seasons and fewer frost events also benefit plant growth and crop production . As this column has repeatedly documented ( see articles here , here , and here , for example ) , global crops set new production records virtually every year as our planet modestly warms . If crop shortages cause national security threats and global warming increases crop production , then global warming benefits rather than jeopardizes national security .",faulty generalization | |
| 92,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Objective data show there has been a gradual increase in global precipitation and soil moisture as our planet warms . Warmer temperatures evaporate more water from the oceans , which in turn stimulates more frequent precipitation over continental land masses . The result of this enhanced precipitation is an improvement in soil moisture at almost all sites in the Global Soil Moisture Data Bank . If declining precipitation and declining soil moisture are military threat multipliers , than global warming is creating a safer , more peaceful world .",faulty generalization | |
| 93,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Utilizing 20th century technologies , humans effectively adapted to global sea level rise . Utilizing 21st century technologies , humans will be even better equipped to adapt to global sea level rise .",fallacy of relevance | |
| 94,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Although alarmists frequently point to a modest recent shrinkage in the Arctic ice sheet , that decline has been completely offset by ice sheet expansion in the Antarctic . Cumulatively , polar ice sheets have not declined at all since NASA satellite instruments began precisely measuring them 35 years ago . Alarmist Assertion # 5",equivocation | |
| 95,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"As such , pollen counts will rise and fall along with plant health and vegetation intensity . Any increase in pollen will be the result of a greener biosphere with more plant growth .",intentional | |
| 96,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"For people experiencing an increase in vegetation in previously barren regions , this greening of the Earth is welcome and wonderful news . For global warming alarmists , however , a greener biosphere is terrible news and something to be opposed .",fallacy of extension | |
| 97,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Global warming alarmists claim a greener biosphere with richer and more abundant plant life is horrible and justifies massive , economy-destroying energy restrictions .",fallacy of extension | |
| 98,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,Global warming realists understand that a greener biosphere with richer and more abundant plant life is not a horrible thing simply because humans may have had some role in creating it .,fallacy of extension | |
| 99,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Objective scientific data verify winters are getting colder , which counters the key prerequisite to EDF ’ s pine beetle claim . NOAA temperature data show winter temperatures in the United States have been getting colder for at least the past two decades . Pine beetles can not be taking advantage of warmer winters if winters are in fact getting colder .",intentional | |
| 100,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Pine beetles are a natural part of forest ecosystems . Expanding pine forests can support more beetles . The predictable increase in pine beetles is largely a product of , rather than a foil against , expanding pine forests .",false causality | |
| 101,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,One can hardly argue that western pine forests are “ destroying iconic Western forests ” when western forests are becoming denser and more prevalent as the planet warms .,fallacy of extension | |
| 102,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Decades of over-aggressive fire suppression policies have caused an unnatural buildup of older , denser , more vulnerable pine forests . These conditions predictably aid pine beetles .",false causality | |
| 103,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,Only global warming alarmists would claim that lusher vegetation and more abundant plant life is a bad thing .,fallacy of extension | |
| 104,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Playing on a general tendency for people to fear change , EDF and global warming alarmists argue that changes in the biosphere that make it richer , lusher , and more conducive to life are changes to be feared and opposed .",fallacy of extension | |
| 105,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"If barren ecosystems constitute an ideal planet , then the alarmist fears of more plant life make sense . On the contrary , global warming realists understand a climate more conducive to richer , more abundant plant life is beneficial rather than harmful .",fallacy of extension | |
| 106,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Severe storms , floods and agricultural losses may cost a great deal of money , but such extreme weather events – and their resulting costs – are dramatically declining as the Earth modestly warms . Accordingly , EDF ’ s asserted economic costs are actually economic benefits .",intentional | |
| 107,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,Any increase in flooding activity is due to human alterations of river and stream flow rather than precipitation changes .,false causality | |
| 108,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Also , the modest recent warming is producing U.S. and global crop production records virtually every year , creating billions of dollars in new economic and human welfare benefits each and every year .",false causality | |
| 109,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,Forcing the American economy to operate on expensive and unreliable wind and solar power will have tremendous negative economic consequences .,faulty generalization | |
| 110,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"The economic consequences of Obama ’ s global warming policies can already be seen in electricity prices , which are currently the highest in U.S. history .",intentional | |
| 111,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Remarkably , Obama ’ s global warming policies are increasing electricity prices even while new natural gas discoveries , revolutionary advances in natural gas production technologies , and a dramatic resultant decline in natural gas prices would otherwise spur a dramatic decline in electricity prices .",appeal to emotion | |
| 112,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"For example , DDT had all but eliminated malaria in the United States and on the global stage during the mid-20th century . However , environmental activists championed false environmental accusations against DDT and dramatically reduced use of the life-saving mosquito killer throughout much of the world . As a result , malaria has reemerged with a vengeance and millions of people die every year as a result .",false causality | |
| 113,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"In the United States alone , influenza kills 36,000 people every year , which dwarfs all heat-dependent viruses and diseases combined .",fallacy of relevance | |
| 114,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Few people other than global warming alarmists would argue that it is better to have 36,000 people die each year from influenza than have a few people die each year from Lyme Disease ( which , as documented above , isn ’ t even related to global warming ) .",fallacy of extension | |
| 115,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Calling attention to anecdotal incidents of icebergs breaking off the Antarctic ice sheet , while deliberately ignoring the overall growth of the Antarctic ice sheet , is a misleading and favorite tactic of global warming alarmists .",ad hominem | |
| 116,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"The EDF ’ s assertion about Glacier National Park is also misleading . Alpine glaciers at Glacier National Park and elsewhere have been receding for over 300 years , since the Earth ’ s temperature bottomed out during the depths of the Little Ice Age . The warming of the past 300 years and the resulting recession of alpine glaciers predated humans building coal-fired power plants and driving SUVs .",intentional | |
| 117,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Moreover , opening up more of the Earth ’ s surface to vegetation and plant and animal life would normally be considered a beneficial change , if global warming alarmists had not so thoroughly politicized the global warming discussion .",fallacy of extension | |
| 118,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,,intentional | |
| 119,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/,"Calling attention to anecdotal incidents of icebergs breaking off the Antarctic ice sheet , while deliberately ignoring the overall growth of the Antarctic ice sheet , is a misleading and favorite tactic of global warming alarmists .",fallacy of relevance | |
| 120,http://www.businessinsider.com/carbon-dioxide-record-human-health-effects-2018-5,"These are the highest CO2 levels in the 800,000 years for which we have good data . This is expected to have a catastrophic effect on human health and the planet .",ad populum | |
| 121,http://www.businessinsider.com/carbon-dioxide-record-human-health-effects-2018-5,"The potential effects of higher average temperatures include tens of thousands of deaths from heat waves , more extreme weather events , and the spread of diseases carried by ticks and mosquitoes — something we 're already seeing . ( There 's a full list of possible ways climate change will affect human health on an archived Environmental Protection Agency page . )",appeal to emotion | |
| 122,http://www.businessinsider.com/carbon-dioxide-record-human-health-effects-2018-5,"One 2008 study found that for every degree Celsius the temperature rises because of CO2 levels , ozone pollution can be expected to kill an additional 22,000 people via respiratory illness , asthma , and emphysema .",appeal to emotion | |
| 123,http://www.businessinsider.com/carbon-dioxide-record-human-health-effects-2018-5,"In recent years , we 've pushed those gas levels into uncharted territory . That change has inevitable and scary consequences .",appeal to emotion | |
| 124,http://www.businessinsider.com/carbon-dioxide-record-human-health-effects-2018-5,"Research indicates that if unchecked , increased CO2 levels could cause pollution-related deaths to increase by tens of thousands , and lead to the slowing of human cognition ( especially when you take into account the fact that CO2 levels tend to be higher indoors in cities ) . Carbon dioxide also contributes to warming that causes sea-level rise , searing heat waves , and superstorms .",appeal to emotion | |
| 125,http://www.businessinsider.com/carbon-dioxide-record-human-health-effects-2018-5,"`` As a scientist , what concerns me the most is what this continued rise actually means : that we are continuing full speed ahead with an unprecedented experiment with our planet , the only home we have , '' Katharine Hayhoe , a climate scientist , said on Twitter .",appeal to emotion | |
| 126,http://www.businessinsider.com/carbon-dioxide-record-human-health-effects-2018-5,"A recent study found that 9 million people died prematurely from pollution-related diseases in 2015 , accounting for 16 % of all deaths worldwide .",ad populum | |
| 127,http://www.businessinsider.com/carbon-dioxide-record-human-health-effects-2018-5,,appeal to emotion | |
| 128,https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/21/greenlands-huge-annual-ice-loss-is-even-worse-than-thought,"The melting Greenland ice sheet is already a major contributor to rising sea level and if it was eventually lost entirely , the oceans would rise by six metres around the world , flooding many of the world ’ s largest cities .",faulty generalization | |
| 129,https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/21/greenlands-huge-annual-ice-loss-is-even-worse-than-thought,"The melting Greenland ice sheet is already a major contributor to rising sea level and if it was eventually lost entirely , the oceans would rise by six metres around the world , flooding many of the world ’ s largest cities .",appeal to emotion | |
| 130,https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/21/greenlands-huge-annual-ice-loss-is-even-worse-than-thought,"The melting Greenland ice sheet is already a major contributor to rising sea level and if it was eventually lost entirely , the oceans would rise by six metres around the world , flooding many of the world ’ s largest cities .",intentional | |
| 131,https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/21/record-breaking-climate-change-world-uncharted-territory,"But scientific research indicates the world was last this warm about 115,000 years ago and that the planet has not experienced such high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for 4m years .",faulty generalization | |
| 132,https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/21/record-breaking-climate-change-world-uncharted-territory,"But scientific research indicates the world was last this warm about 115,000 years ago and that the planet has not experienced such high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for 4m years .",faulty generalization | |
| 133,https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/21/record-breaking-climate-change-world-uncharted-territory,Trump is aiming to cut climate change research .,appeal to emotion | |
| 134,https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/21/record-breaking-climate-change-world-uncharted-territory,Trump is aiming to cut climate change research .,fallacy of extension | |
| 135,https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/21/record-breaking-climate-change-world-uncharted-territory,"“ Our children and grandchildren will look back on the climate deniers and ask how they could have sacrificed the planet for the sake of cheap fossil fuel energy , when the cost of inaction exceeds the cost of a transition to a low-carbon economy , ” Watson said . Trump is aiming to cut climate change research .",ad hominem | |
| 136,https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/21/record-breaking-climate-change-world-uncharted-territory,"For example , the Arctic heatwaves are made tens of times more likely and the soaring temperatures seen in Australia in February were made twice as likely .",intentional | |
| 137,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,"CNN — | |
| Following a successful international tour and the G-7 Summit in Italy , President Trump has an opportunity to relieve our nation of the unfair and economically devastating requirements of the Paris Agreement , the United Nations climate treaty he pledged to rip up during the campaign . And as soon as possible , President Trump should act on – and keep – his campaign promise .",intentional | |
| 138,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,"Not only would these unfair standards reduce American job growth and wages and increase monthly utility costs for hardworking families , they would fundamentally disadvantage the United States in the global economy .",appeal to emotion | |
| 139,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,We can not pursue a path that puts American workers first if we cripple a fossil fuel energy sector that generates 82 % of the energy consumed in the United States .,fallacy of logic | |
| 140,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,"This , all while doing nothing to meaningfully decrease global temperatures .",fallacy of extension | |
| 141,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,"According to a recent National Economic Research Associates Economic Consulting study , the Paris Agreement could obliterate $ 3 trillion of GDP , 6.5 million industrial sector jobs and $ 7,000 in per capita household income from the American economy by 2040 .",fallacy of credibility | |
| 142,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,Meeting the 2025 emissions reduction target alone could subtract $ 250 billion from our GDP and eliminate 2.7 million jobs .,ad populum | |
| 143,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,America is poised to become a net energy exporter over the next decade . We should not abandon that progress at the cost of weakening our energy renaissance and crippling economic growth .,false dilemma | |
| 144,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,"We simply can not afford an agreement that puts thousands of Americans out of work , increases their energy costs and devastates our core industries .",fallacy of extension | |
| 145,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,"In return for crippling our economy , the Paris Agreement would do next to nothing to impact global temperatures .",faulty generalization | |
| 146,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,The Paris Agreement would also handicap America in the global race for new sources of energy .,fallacy of relevance | |
| 147,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,"The emission cuts that the US would have to make today , and the resultant costs for our own energy firms , would weaken our ability to battle our rivals on an equal footing in the drive for untapped energy sources .",fallacy of relevance | |
| 148,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,We can not pursue a path that puts American workers first if we cripple a fossil fuel energy sector that generates 82 % of the energy consumed in the United States .,false dilemma | |
| 149,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,"Under the EPA ’ s own models , if all carbon emissions in America were basically eliminated , global temperatures would only decrease by less than two-tenths of a degree Celsius .",ad populum | |
| 150,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,"That ’ s because while the Obama administration irresponsibly committed America to immediate , real cuts in emissions , our global economic competitors would have no such handicap .",intentional | |
| 151,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,"In the meantime , the agreement would force American taxpayers to subsidize alternative energy at the expense of clean coal , nuclear power and natural gas – energy resources that actually work for our economy and our environment .",faulty generalization | |
| 152,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,"Unless the US completely withdraws , the Paris Agreement will continue to cause sustained harm to our security and economy , and it keeps the door open for future administrations to use it as means to impose more costly and ineffective energy regulations .",faulty generalization | |
| 153,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,"We should not let a deal subject to the whims of future administrations or Congresses hang like a wet blanket over our economy – driving up energy prices , devastating our industrial base and bolstering our rivals .",appeal to emotion | |
| 154,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,"CNN — | |
| Following a successful international tour and the G-7 Summit in Italy , President Trump has an opportunity to relieve our nation of the unfair and economically devastating requirements of the Paris Agreement , the United Nations climate treaty he pledged to rip up during the campaign . And as soon as possible , President Trump should act on – and keep – his campaign promise .",ad hominem | |
| 155,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,The result : our economic output would lag while other countries continued to expand their GDPs .,false dilemma | |
| 156,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,"The agreement ’ s proponents market it as a panacea for addressing the impacts of climate change , but at its core , it is about increasing government control – over the economy , the energy sector and nearly every aspect of our daily lives .",faulty generalization | |
| 157,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,"In return for crippling our economy , the Paris Agreement would do next to nothing to impact global temperatures .",fallacy of logic | |
| 158,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,"In fact , Russia is permitted to increase its emissions approximately 50 % and China and India have no meaningful cap on emissions until 2030 .",ad hominem | |
| 159,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,"In the meantime , the agreement would force American taxpayers to subsidize alternative energy at the expense of clean coal , nuclear power and natural gas – energy resources that actually work for our economy and our environment .",fallacy of extension | |
| 160,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,"It represents the exact misguided , top-down , government-knows-best approach that American voters resoundingly rejected in 2016 .",appeal to emotion | |
| 161,http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/opinions/withdraw-paris-accord-opinion-cruz/,"By allowing our rivals to increase their cooperation and strategic leverage around the world – pressuring our allies and partners , harming domestic job creators and materially reducing our prestige and influence in the process — the agreement would damage America ’ s national security as much as our economic security .",appeal to emotion | |
| 162,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"• Most extreme weather phenomena have not become more extreme , more deadly , or more destructive",intentional | |
| 163,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,The report will make hugely depressing reading for all the prominent environmental activists — from the Pope and Doom Goblin Greta Thunberg to the Great Reset ’ s Klaus Schwab — who have been pushing the “ climate emergency ” narrative .,ad hominem | |
| 164,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"It is an article of faith for the globalist elite and their useful idiots in the media , in politics , in business , and the entertainment that the world is on course for climate disaster which only radical and costly international action can prevent .",ad hominem | |
| 165,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"In fact , human wellbeing has never been higher",fallacy of relevance | |
| 166,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"• Empirical evidence directly contradicts claims that increased carbon dioxide has reduced human wellbeing . In fact , human wellbeing has never been higher",false causality | |
| 167,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"His credentials as a climate expert are impeccable . He was a member of the U.S. delegation that established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) and helped develop its First Assessment Report . He subsequently served as a U.S. delegate to the IPCC , and as an IPCC reviewer .",fallacy of credibility | |
| 168,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,,ad hominem | |
| 169,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"At the end , Goklany provides a table , setting out all the scaremongering claims made by environmental groups — and then comparing them with observed reality .",appeal to emotion | |
| 170,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"There is no “ climate emergency ” , according to a study for the Global Warming Policy Foundation by independent scientist Dr Indur Goklany . Goklany concludes : While climate may have changed for the warmer :",fallacy of credibility | |
| 171,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,Droughts more frequent and intense — No,intentional | |
| 172,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,Area burned by wildfire increasing —,intentional | |
| 173,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,Cereal yields decreasing —,intentional | |
| 174,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,Food supplies per capita decreasing —,intentional | |
| 175,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Land area and beaches shrinking , coral islands submerged —",intentional | |
| 176,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Access to cleaner water has increased ; mortality from ‘ Extreme Weather Events ’ has declined by 99 per cent since the 1920s ; fewer people are dying from heat ; death rates from climate-sensitive diseases like malaria and diarrhoea have decreased ( since 1900 malaria death rates have declined 96 per cent ) ; hunger rates have declined ; poverty has declined ( GDP per capita has quadrupled since 1950 even as CO2 levels have sextupled ) ; life expectancy has more than doubled since the start of industrialisation ; health adjusted life expectancy has increased ; global inequality has decreased in terms of incomes , life expectancies and access to modern-day amenities ; the earth is green and more productive ; habitat lost to agriculture has peaked due to fossil fuel dependent technologies .",fallacy of extension | |
| 177,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Access to cleaner water has increased ; mortality from ‘ Extreme Weather Events ’ has declined by 99 per cent since the 1920s ; fewer people are dying from heat ; death rates from climate-sensitive diseases like malaria and diarrhoea have decreased ( since 1900 malaria death rates have declined 96 per cent ) ; hunger rates have declined ; poverty has declined ( GDP per capita has quadrupled since 1950 even as CO2 levels have sextupled ) ; life expectancy has more than doubled since the start of industrialisation ; health adjusted life expectancy has increased ; global inequality has decreased in terms of incomes , life expectancies and access to modern-day amenities ; the earth is green and more productive ; habitat lost to agriculture has peaked due to fossil fuel dependent technologies .",fallacy of extension | |
| 178,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Access to cleaner water has increased ; mortality from ‘ Extreme Weather Events ’ has declined by 99 per cent since the 1920s ; fewer people are dying from heat ; death rates from climate-sensitive diseases like malaria and diarrhoea have decreased ( since 1900 malaria death rates have declined 96 per cent ) ; hunger rates have declined ; poverty has declined ( GDP per capita has quadrupled since 1950 even as CO2 levels have sextupled ) ; life expectancy has more than doubled since the start of industrialisation ; health adjusted life expectancy has increased ; global inequality has decreased in terms of incomes , life expectancies and access to modern-day amenities ; the earth is green and more productive ; habitat lost to agriculture has peaked due to fossil fuel dependent technologies .",fallacy of extension | |
| 179,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"The impact of extreme weather events ― hurricanes , tornadoes , floods and droughts ― are , if anything , declining .",intentional | |
| 180,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Access to cleaner water has increased ; mortality from ‘ Extreme Weather Events ’ has declined by 99 per cent since the 1920s ; fewer people are dying from heat ; death rates from climate-sensitive diseases like malaria and diarrhoea have decreased ( since 1900 malaria death rates have declined 96 per cent ) ; hunger rates have declined ; poverty has declined ( GDP per capita has quadrupled since 1950 even as CO2 levels have sextupled ) ; life expectancy has more than doubled since the start of industrialisation ; health adjusted life expectancy has increased ; global inequality has decreased in terms of incomes , life expectancies and access to modern-day amenities ; the earth is green and more productive ; habitat lost to agriculture has peaked due to fossil fuel dependent technologies .",appeal to emotion | |
| 181,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Access to cleaner water has increased ; mortality from ‘ Extreme Weather Events ’ has declined by 99 per cent since the 1920s ; fewer people are dying from heat ; death rates from climate-sensitive diseases like malaria and diarrhoea have decreased ( since 1900 malaria death rates have declined 96 per cent ) ; hunger rates have declined ; poverty has declined ( GDP per capita has quadrupled since 1950 even as CO2 levels have sextupled ) ; life expectancy has more than doubled since the start of industrialisation ; health adjusted life expectancy has increased ; global inequality has decreased in terms of incomes , life expectancies and access to modern-day amenities ; the earth is green and more productive ; habitat lost to agriculture has peaked due to fossil fuel dependent technologies .",intentional | |
| 182,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Access to cleaner water has increased ; mortality from ‘ Extreme Weather Events ’ has declined by 99 per cent since the 1920s ; fewer people are dying from heat ; death rates from climate-sensitive diseases like malaria and diarrhoea have decreased ( since 1900 malaria death rates have declined 96 per cent ) ; hunger rates have declined ; poverty has declined ( GDP per capita has quadrupled since 1950 even as CO2 levels have sextupled ) ; life expectancy has more than doubled since the start of industrialisation ; health adjusted life expectancy has increased ; global inequality has decreased in terms of incomes , life expectancies and access to modern-day amenities ; the earth is green and more productive ; habitat lost to agriculture has peaked due to fossil fuel dependent technologies .",intentional | |
| 183,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Access to cleaner water has increased ; mortality from ‘ Extreme Weather Events ’ has declined by 99 per cent since the 1920s ; fewer people are dying from heat ; death rates from climate-sensitive diseases like malaria and diarrhoea have decreased ( since 1900 malaria death rates have declined 96 per cent ) ; hunger rates have declined ; poverty has declined ( GDP per capita has quadrupled since 1950 even as CO2 levels have sextupled ) ; life expectancy has more than doubled since the start of industrialisation ; health adjusted life expectancy has increased ; global inequality has decreased in terms of incomes , life expectancies and access to modern-day amenities ; the earth is green and more productive ; habitat lost to agriculture has peaked due to fossil fuel dependent technologies .",intentional | |
| 184,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Access to cleaner water has increased ; mortality from ‘ Extreme Weather Events ’ has declined by 99 per cent since the 1920s ; fewer people are dying from heat ; death rates from climate-sensitive diseases like malaria and diarrhoea have decreased ( since 1900 malaria death rates have declined 96 per cent ) ; hunger rates have declined ; poverty has declined ( GDP per capita has quadrupled since 1950 even as CO2 levels have sextupled ) ; life expectancy has more than doubled since the start of industrialisation ; health adjusted life expectancy has increased ; global inequality has decreased in terms of incomes , life expectancies and access to modern-day amenities ; the earth is green and more productive ; habitat lost to agriculture has peaked due to fossil fuel dependent technologies .",intentional | |
| 185,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"In other words , fossil fuels have saved 13.8 per cent of the non-frozen parts of the world from being converted to agriculture .",intentional | |
| 186,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Thus , nitrogen fertilisers and carbon dioxide fertilisation have together increased global food production by 111 per cent .",intentional | |
| 187,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Thus , nitrogen fertilisers and carbon dioxide fertilisation have together increased global food production by 111 per cent .",fallacy of logic | |
| 188,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Thus , nitrogen fertilisers and carbon dioxide fertilisation have together increased global food production by 111 per cent .",fallacy of logic | |
| 189,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"At the beginning , he quotes a number of climate doom-mongers , including the Pope .",ad hominem | |
| 190,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"In fact , human wellbeing has never been higher",intentional | |
| 191,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"• Whatever detrimental effects warming and higher carbon dioxide may have had on terrestrial species and ecosystems , they have been swamped by the contribution of fossil fuels to increased biological productivity .",intentional | |
| 192,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,Tornadoes increase and become more intense — No,fallacy of extension | |
| 193,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,Cyclones/hurricanes more intense or frequent — No,intentional | |
| 194,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,Floods more frequent and more intense — No,intentional | |
| 195,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Access to cleaner water has increased ; mortality from ‘ Extreme Weather Events ’ has declined by 99 per cent since the 1920s ; fewer people are dying from heat ; death rates from climate-sensitive diseases like malaria and diarrhoea have decreased ( since 1900 malaria death rates have declined 96 per cent ) ; hunger rates have declined ; poverty has declined ( GDP per capita has quadrupled since 1950 even as CO2 levels have sextupled ) ; life expectancy has more than doubled since the start of industrialisation ; health adjusted life expectancy has increased ; global inequality has decreased in terms of incomes , life expectancies and access to modern-day amenities ; the earth is green and more productive ; habitat lost to agriculture has peaked due to fossil fuel dependent technologies .",fallacy of extension | |
| 196,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Thus , nitrogen fertilisers and carbon dioxide fertilisation have together increased global food production by 111 per cent .",fallacy of logic | |
| 197,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Not only , he suggests , has their CO2 contributed to “ global greening ” — “ contrary to prevailing wisdom , tree cover globally has increased by over 2 million km2 between 1982 and 2016 , an increase of 7 per cent ” — but they provide the fertilisers and pesticides which simultaneously feed the planet and reduce the amount of land required for agriculture :",intentional | |
| 198,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Not only , he suggests , has their CO2 contributed to “ global greening ” — “ contrary to prevailing wisdom , tree cover globally has increased by over 2 million km2 between 1982 and 2016 , an increase of 7 per cent ” — but they provide the fertilisers and pesticides which simultaneously feed the planet and reduce the amount of land required for agriculture :",intentional | |
| 199,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"• Most extreme weather phenomena have not become more extreme , more deadly , or more destructive",intentional | |
| 200,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Access to cleaner water has increased ; mortality from ‘ Extreme Weather Events ’ has declined by 99 per cent since the 1920s ; fewer people are dying from heat ; death rates from climate-sensitive diseases like malaria and diarrhoea have decreased ( since 1900 malaria death rates have declined 96 per cent ) ; hunger rates have declined ; poverty has declined ( GDP per capita has quadrupled since 1950 even as CO2 levels have sextupled ) ; life expectancy has more than doubled since the start of industrialisation ; health adjusted life expectancy has increased ; global inequality has decreased in terms of incomes , life expectancies and access to modern-day amenities ; the earth is green and more productive ; habitat lost to agriculture has peaked due to fossil fuel dependent technologies .",appeal to emotion | |
| 201,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Access to cleaner water has increased ; mortality from ‘ Extreme Weather Events ’ has declined by 99 per cent since the 1920s ; fewer people are dying from heat ; death rates from climate-sensitive diseases like malaria and diarrhoea have decreased ( since 1900 malaria death rates have declined 96 per cent ) ; hunger rates have declined ; poverty has declined ( GDP per capita has quadrupled since 1950 even as CO2 levels have sextupled ) ; life expectancy has more than doubled since the start of industrialisation ; health adjusted life expectancy has increased ; global inequality has decreased in terms of incomes , life expectancies and access to modern-day amenities ; the earth is green and more productive ; habitat lost to agriculture has peaked due to fossil fuel dependent technologies .",appeal to emotion | |
| 202,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Access to cleaner water has increased ; mortality from ‘ Extreme Weather Events ’ has declined by 99 per cent since the 1920s ; fewer people are dying from heat ; death rates from climate-sensitive diseases like malaria and diarrhoea have decreased ( since 1900 malaria death rates have declined 96 per cent ) ; hunger rates have declined ; poverty has declined ( GDP per capita has quadrupled since 1950 even as CO2 levels have sextupled ) ; life expectancy has more than doubled since the start of industrialisation ; health adjusted life expectancy has increased ; global inequality has decreased in terms of incomes , life expectancies and access to modern-day amenities ; the earth is green and more productive ; habitat lost to agriculture has peaked due to fossil fuel dependent technologies .",appeal to emotion | |
| 203,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Access to cleaner water has increased ; mortality from ‘ Extreme Weather Events ’ has declined by 99 per cent since the 1920s ; fewer people are dying from heat ; death rates from climate-sensitive diseases like malaria and diarrhoea have decreased ( since 1900 malaria death rates have declined 96 per cent ) ; hunger rates have declined ; poverty has declined ( GDP per capita has quadrupled since 1950 even as CO2 levels have sextupled ) ; life expectancy has more than doubled since the start of industrialisation ; health adjusted life expectancy has increased ; global inequality has decreased in terms of incomes , life expectancies and access to modern-day amenities ; the earth is green and more productive ; habitat lost to agriculture has peaked due to fossil fuel dependent technologies .",intentional | |
| 204,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Thus , nitrogen fertilisers and carbon dioxide fertilisation have together increased global food production by 111 per cent .",intentional | |
| 205,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Thus , nitrogen fertilisers and carbon dioxide fertilisation have together increased global food production by 111 per cent .",intentional | |
| 206,https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/07/delingpole-study-disputes-earth-climate-emergency/,"Thus , nitrogen fertilisers and carbon dioxide fertilisation have together increased global food production by 111 per cent .",intentional | |
| 207,https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/07/world/climate-change-new-ipcc-report-wxc/index.html,"To limit global warming to 1.5 degree C is “ possible within the laws of chemistry and physics , ” said Jim Skea , co-chair of IPCC Working Group III . “ But doing so would require unprecedented changes . ”",fallacy of extension | |
| 208,https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/07/world/climate-change-new-ipcc-report-wxc/index.html,,ad hominem | |
| 209,https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/07/world/climate-change-new-ipcc-report-wxc/index.html,"To limit global warming to 1.5 degree C is “ possible within the laws of chemistry and physics , ” said Jim Skea , co-chair of IPCC Working Group III . “ But doing so would require unprecedented changes . ”",appeal to emotion | |
| 210,https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/07/world/climate-change-new-ipcc-report-wxc/index.html,"Consequences of past inaction | |
| “ One of the key messages that comes out very strongly from this report is that we are already seeing the consequences of 1 degree C of global warming through more extreme weather , rising sea levels and diminishing Arctic sea ice , among other changes , ” said Panmao Zhai , co-chair of IPCC Working Group I .",faulty generalization | |
| 211,https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/07/world/climate-change-new-ipcc-report-wxc/index.html,"Countries in the southern hemisphere will be among the worse off , the report said , “ projected to experience the largest impacts on economic growth due to climate change should global warming increase . ”",equivocation | |
| 212,https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/07/world/climate-change-new-ipcc-report-wxc/index.html,,intentional | |
| 213,https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-arctic/,Eight countries control land in the Arctic Circle . Five have coastlines to defend . The temperature is rising . The ice is melting . The race for newly accessible resources is beginning . And Russia is gaining ground .,fallacy of logic | |
| 214,https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-arctic/,"The sea-ice loss is President Vladimir Putin ’ s gain . Already the largest country on the planet , Russia stands to gain access to shipping routes and energy reserves , and a strategic military advantage from the opening of the Arctic . Along the Russian coastline , which makes up more than half the Arctic total , winds and currents push old ice away from potential shipping lanes and prevent the build-up of thicker , multi-year ice that would leave other parts of the Arctic impassable for longer periods .",appeal to emotion | |
| 215,https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-arctic/,Seismologists have begun to install sensors in the Russian Arctic to give advance notice of fields ready to blow their top . These local events are a powerful visual example of how the world is changing in dramatic and surprising ways .,fallacy of relevance | |
| 216,https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html,"Had a scientist in the early 1990s suggested that within 25 years a single heat wave would measurably raise sea levels , at an estimated two one-hundredths of an inch , bake the Arctic and produce Sahara-like temperatures in Paris and Berlin , the prediction would have been dismissed as alarmist . But many worst-case scenarios from that time are now realities .",intentional | |
| 217,https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html,"In 1990 , the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , the United Nations group of thousands of scientists representing 195 countries , said in its first report that climate change would arrive at a stately pace , that the methane-laden Arctic permafrost was not in danger of thawing , and that the Antarctic ice sheets were stable .",intentional | |
| 218,https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html,"As we now know , all of those predictions turned out to be completely wrong .",intentional | |
| 219,https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html,The climate change panel seems finally to have caught up with the gravity of the climate crisis .,intentional | |
| 220,https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html,"Unfortunately , this dose of reality arrives more than 30 years after human-caused climate change became a mainstream issue .",intentional | |
| 221,https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html,"As recently as 1995 , it was thought to be stable .",intentional | |
| 222,https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html,"For decades , most scientists saw climate change as a distant prospect .",faulty generalization | |
| 223,https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html,"But in the case of climate , this deliberation has been accompanied by inertia born of bureaucratic caution and politics .",intentional | |
| 224,https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html,A recent essay in Scientific American argued that scientists “ tend to underestimate the severity of threats and the rapidity with which they might unfold ” and said one of the reasons was “ the perceived need for consensus. ”,intentional | |
| 225,https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html,The realization that the global climate can swing between warm and cold periods in a matter of decades or even less came as a profound shock to scientists who thought those shifts took hundreds if not thousands of years .,intentional | |
| 226,https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html,"Before that , almost nobody confidently believed that the climate could change massively within a decade or two ; after the report , almost nobody felt sure that it could not . ”",intentional | |
| 227,https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html,"And even today , 17 years later , a substantial portion of the American public remains unaware or unconvinced it is happening .",fallacy of extension | |
| 228,https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html,Few expect that to happen anytime soon .,intentional | |
| 229,https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html,"This summer , for instance , a heat wave in Europe penetrated the Arctic , pushing temperatures into the 80s across much of the Far North and , according to the Belgian climate scientist Xavier Fettweis , melting some 40 billion tons of Greenland ’ s ice sheet .",intentional | |
| 230,https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html,"Which makes you wonder whether the projected risks of further warming , dire as they are , might still be understated .",faulty generalization | |
| 231,https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html,How bad will things get ?,intentional | |
| 232,https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html,"New York City ’ s subway system did not flood in its first 108 years , but Hurricane Sandy ’ s 2012 storm surge caused nearly $ 5 billion in water damage , much of which is still not repaired . In 2017 , Hurricane Harvey gave Houston and the surrounding region a $ 125 billion lesson about the costs of misjudging the potential for floods .",intentional | |
| 233,https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html,"More recently , its actions approached the surreal as the Justice Department opened an antitrust investigation into those auto companies that have agreed in principle to abide by higher gas mileage standards required by California .",ad hominem | |
| 234,https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html,"Even if scientists end up having lowballed their latest assessments of the consequences of the greenhouse gases we continue to emit into the atmosphere , their predictions are dire enough .",fallacy of logic | |
| 235,https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html,It ’ s already here . And it is going to get worse .,appeal to emotion | |
| 236,https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/science/great-barrier-reef-coral-climate-change-dieoff.html,"Australia relies on the Great Barrier Reef for about 70,000 jobs and billions of dollars annually in tourism revenue , and it is not yet clear how that economy will be affected by the reef ’ s deterioration .",intentional | |
| 237,https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/science/great-barrier-reef-coral-climate-change-dieoff.html,"He said that he and his students cried when he showed them maps of the damage , which he had calculated in part by flying low in small planes and helicopters .",appeal to emotion | |
| 238,https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/science/great-barrier-reef-coral-climate-change-dieoff.html,"Australia relies on the Great Barrier Reef for about 70,000 jobs and billions of dollars annually in tourism revenue , and it is not yet clear how that economy will be affected by the reef ’ s deterioration .",fallacy of extension | |
| 239,https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/science/great-barrier-reef-coral-climate-change-dieoff.html,"Within a decade , certain kinds of branching and plate coral could be extinct , reef scientists say , along with a variety of small fish that rely on them for protection from predators .",faulty generalization | |
| 240,https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/science/great-barrier-reef-coral-climate-change-dieoff.html,"The Great Barrier Reef in Australia has long been one of the world ’ s most magnificent natural wonders , so enormous it can be seen from space , so beautiful it can move visitors to tears . But the reef , and the profusion of sea creatures living near it , are in profound trouble .",appeal to emotion | |
| 241,http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/09/delingpole-nearly-all-recent-global-warming-is-fabricated-study-finds/,"Much of recent global warming has been fabricated by climate scientists to make it look more frightening , a study has found .",fallacy of credibility | |
| 242,http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/09/delingpole-nearly-all-recent-global-warming-is-fabricated-study-finds/,"In fact , the magnitude of their historical data adjustments , that removed their cyclical temperature patterns , are totally inconsistent with published and credible U.S. and other temperature data .",intentional | |
| 243,http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/09/delingpole-nearly-all-recent-global-warming-is-fabricated-study-finds/,"That is , the adjusted data used by alarmist organizations like NASA , NOAA , and the UK Met Office differs so markedly from the original raw data that it can not be trusted .",intentional | |
| 244,http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/09/delingpole-nearly-all-recent-global-warming-is-fabricated-study-finds/,"Much of recent global warming has been fabricated by climate scientists to make it look more frightening , a study has found .",faulty generalization | |
| 245,http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/09/delingpole-nearly-all-recent-global-warming-is-fabricated-study-finds/,“ You would think that when you make adjustments you ’ d sometimes get warming and sometimes get cooling . That ’ s almost never happened . ”,faulty generalization | |
| 246,http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/09/delingpole-nearly-all-recent-global-warming-is-fabricated-study-finds/,"What this means , the report concludes , is that claims by NASA , NOAA , and the UK Met Office that the world is experiencing unprecedented and dramatic warming should be taken with a huge pinch of salt : they all use the same corrupted global average temperature ( GAST ) data . The conclusive findings of this research are that the three GAST data sets are not a valid representation of reality .",ad hominem | |
| 247,http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/09/delingpole-nearly-all-recent-global-warming-is-fabricated-study-finds/,"That is , the adjusted data used by alarmist organizations like NASA , NOAA , and the UK Met Office differs so markedly from the original raw data that it can not be trusted .",ad hominem | |
| 248,https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/global-warming-american-south/532200/,He was not connected to the study .,fallacy of relevance | |
| 249,https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/if-everyone-ate-beans-instead-of-beef/535536/,"Brazil , the world ’ s largest exporter of red meat , holds around 212 million cattle . ( In June , the U.S. temporarily suspended imports of beef from Brazil due to abscesses , collections of pus , in the meat . )",fallacy of relevance | |
| 250,https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/if-everyone-ate-beans-instead-of-beef/535536/,"In addition to the well-documented health benefits of a plant-based diet , this case also brings empowerment , or at least reprieve .",appeal to emotion | |
| 251,https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/if-everyone-ate-beans-instead-of-beef/535536/,Donald Trump has called climate change a fabrication on the part of “ the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive. ”,intentional | |
| 252,https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/if-everyone-ate-beans-instead-of-beef/535536/,Donald Trump has called climate change a fabrication on the part of “ the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive. ”,fallacy of relevance | |
| 253,https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/if-everyone-ate-beans-instead-of-beef/535536/,"Brazil , the world ’ s largest exporter of red meat , holds around 212 million cattle . ( In June , the U.S. temporarily suspended imports of beef from Brazil due to abscesses , collections of pus , in the meat . )",fallacy of logic | |
| 254,http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170403-miamis-fight-against-sea-level-rise,"Just down the coast from Donald Trump 's weekend retreat , the residents and businesses of south Florida are experiencing regular episodes of water in the streets .",appeal to emotion | |
| 255,http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170403-miamis-fight-against-sea-level-rise,Ask nearly anyone in the Miami area about flooding and they ’ ll have an anecdote to share . Many will also tell you that it ’ s happening more and more frequently . The data backs them up .,false causality | |
| 256,http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170403-miamis-fight-against-sea-level-rise,"There also are six Trump-branded residential buildings in Sunny Isles , one of which still provides the president with income , and a Trump-branded condominium complex in Hollywood . Look beyond all the glass and steel , though , and – despite the federal government ’ s sidelining of the issue – there ’ s another thrum of activity .",fallacy of credibility | |
| 257,http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170403-miamis-fight-against-sea-level-rise,"“ This would be no different than if I came to you and said ‘ Hey , in 40 years , gravity ’ s going to change . I can ’ t tell you exactly what it ’ s going to be . But let ’ s assume roughly between 50 % and 80 % stronger or weaker than it is now. ’",fallacy of logic | |
| 258,http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170403-miamis-fight-against-sea-level-rise,"At extreme high tides , water levels have surged to an inch below the Intracoastal Waterway , says Jennifer Jurado , Broward County ’ s chief resiliency officer . “ Once that ’ s breached , you ’ re open to the ocean – the supply of water is endless . The system is really at capacity . These are flood conditions , even with just the high tide and supermoon… You see men in business suits trying to trudge through water . ”",faulty generalization | |
| 259,https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-this-scientist-proved-climate-change-isnt-causing-extreme-weather-so-politicians-attacke,"Shortly thereafter , Obama ’ s science advisor John Holdren accused him of misleading Congress and launched a lengthy but ill-informed attack on Pielke , which prompted congressional Democrats to open an investigation into Pielke ’ s sources of funding ( which quickly fizzled amid benign conclusions ) .",intentional | |
| 260,https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-this-scientist-proved-climate-change-isnt-causing-extreme-weather-so-politicians-attacke,"Globally there ’ s no clear evidence of trends and patterns in extreme events such as droughts , hurricanes and floods . Some regions experience more , some less and some no trend .",false causality | |
| 261,https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-this-scientist-proved-climate-change-isnt-causing-extreme-weather-so-politicians-attacke,"If anything , the past 50 years has been relatively quiet . There ’ s no trend in hurricane-related flooding in the U.S .",false causality | |
| 262,https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-this-scientist-proved-climate-change-isnt-causing-extreme-weather-so-politicians-attacke,"Nor is there evidence of an increase in floods globally . Since 1965 , more parts of the U.S. have seen a decrease in flooding than have seen an increase . And from 1940 to today , flood damage as a percentage of GDP has fallen to less than 0.05 per cent per year from about 0.2 per cent .",ad populum | |
| 263,https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-this-scientist-proved-climate-change-isnt-causing-extreme-weather-so-politicians-attacke,"There ’ s no trend in U.S. tornado damage ( in fact , 2012 to 2017 was below average ) . There ’ s no trend in global droughts . Cold snaps in the U.S. are down but , unexpectedly , so are heatwaves . The bottom line is there ’ s no solid connection between climate change and many major indicators of extreme weather that politicians keep talking about , such as hurricanes , tornadoes , droughts , rainfall and floods , despite Trudeau ’ s claims to the contrary .",intentional | |
| 264,https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-this-scientist-proved-climate-change-isnt-causing-extreme-weather-so-politicians-attacke,"Roger Pielke Jr. is a scientist at University of Colorado in Boulder who , up until a few years ago , did world-leading research on climate change and extreme weather . He found convincing evidence that climate change was not leading to higher rates of weather-related damages worldwide , once you correct for increasing population and wealth .",fallacy of credibility | |
| 265,https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-this-scientist-proved-climate-change-isnt-causing-extreme-weather-so-politicians-attacke,"For his efforts , Pielke was subjected to a vicious , well-funded smear campaign backed by , among others , the Obama White House and leading Democratic congressmen , culminating in his decision in 2015 to quit the field .",appeal to emotion | |
| 266,https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-this-scientist-proved-climate-change-isnt-causing-extreme-weather-so-politicians-attacke,"His presentation was recently circulated on Twitter . With so much misinformation nowadays about supposed climate emergencies , it ’ s worth reviewing carefully .",intentional | |
| 267,https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-this-scientist-proved-climate-change-isnt-causing-extreme-weather-so-politicians-attacke,"They concluded that trends toward rising climate damages were mainly due to increased population and economic activity in the path of storms , that it was not currently possible to determine the portion of damages attributable to greenhouse gases , and that they didn ’ t expect that situation to change in the near future .",intentional | |
| 268,https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-this-scientist-proved-climate-change-isnt-causing-extreme-weather-so-politicians-attacke,"He found convincing evidence that climate change was not leading to higher rates of weather-related damages worldwide , once you correct for increasing population and wealth .",faulty generalization | |
| 269,https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/climate-change-is-supercharging-a-hot-and-dangerous-summer/2018/07/26/cf960ba8-905c-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html,Said Hayhoe : “ The biggest myth that the largest number of people have bought into is that ‘ climate change doesn ’ t matter to me personally. ’ ”,intentional | |
| 270,https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/climate-change-is-supercharging-a-hot-and-dangerous-summer/2018/07/26/cf960ba8-905c-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html,Gone are the days when scientists drew a bright line dividing weather and climate .,false dilemma | |
| 271,https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/climate-change-is-supercharging-a-hot-and-dangerous-summer/2018/07/26/cf960ba8-905c-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html,"President Trump , who in the past has called global warming a hoax , has vowed to pull the United States out of the accord as soon as that becomes possible , in 2020 . The 2017 National Climate Assessment , released in November , concluded what it has for nearly three decades : Human-made climate change is real , and the impacts have already started .",intentional | |
| 272,https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/climate-change-is-supercharging-a-hot-and-dangerous-summer/2018/07/26/cf960ba8-905c-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html,"In the town of Sodankyla , Finland , the thermometer on July 17 registered a record-breaking 90 degrees , a remarkable figure given that Sodankyla is 59 miles north of the Arctic Circle , in a region known for winter snowmobiling and an abundance of reindeer . This is a hot , strange and dangerous summer across the planet . Greece is in mourning after scorching heat and high winds fueled wildfires that have killed more than 80 people . Japan recorded its highest temperature in history , 106 degrees , in a heat wave that killed 65 people in a week and hospitalized 22,000 , shortly after catastrophic flooding killed 200 . | |
| Ouargla , Algeria , hit 124 degrees on July 5 , a likely record for the continent of Africa . And the 109-degree reading in Quriyat , Oman , on June 28 amazed meteorologists because that wasn ’ t the day ’ s high temperature . That was the low . It was the hottest low temperature ever recorded on Earth . Montreal hit 98 degrees on July 2 , its warmest temperature ever measured . Canadian health officials estimate as many as 70 people died in that heat wave . In the United States , 35 weather stations in the past month have set new marks for warm overnight temperatures . Southern California has had record heat and widespread power outages . In Yosemite Valley , which is imperiled by wildfires , park rangers have told everyone to flee . The brutal weather has been supercharged by human-induced climate change , scientists say . Climate models for three decades have predicted exactly what the world is seeing this summer .",intentional | |
| 273,https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/climate-change-is-supercharging-a-hot-and-dangerous-summer/2018/07/26/cf960ba8-905c-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html,"In the Southwest , it ’ s water availability . On the Gulf Coast , it ’ s hurricanes . In the East , it ’ s flooding .",intentional | |
| 274,https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/climate-change-is-supercharging-a-hot-and-dangerous-summer/2018/07/26/cf960ba8-905c-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html,"In Dallas , where the temperature hit 100 on 10 out of 11 days this month , three homeless people have died of heat-related causes in the past week , said Brenda Snitzer , executive director of the Stewpot , a downtown shelter . In Phoenix , where this week ’ s temperature hit 116 degrees , Dustin Nye , 36 , who spent the day installing air-conditioning units , said he has suffered heat stroke in the past and still gets woozy . “ It takes a special breed to do this all day long in this heat , ” he said . “ You ’ ve really got to work up your endurance and just buckle down and deal with it . ” In Los Angeles , Marty Adams , chief operating officer of the Department of Water and Power , said , “ It seems like every year , we ’ ve had some type of temperature anomaly that we normally would not have. ” Residents of beach cities such as Long Beach and Santa Monica , who normally rely on the ocean breeze to cool their homes , have added air-conditioning units , which strains the grid and has contributed to power outages , he said . Said Hayhoe : “ The biggest myth that the largest number of people have bought into is that ‘ climate change doesn ’ t matter to me personally.",intentional | |
| 275,https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/climate-change-is-supercharging-a-hot-and-dangerous-summer/2018/07/26/cf960ba8-905c-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html,"The 2017 National Climate Assessment , released in November , concluded what it has for nearly three decades : Human-made climate change is real , and the impacts have already started .",fallacy of relevance | |
| 276,https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/climate-change-is-supercharging-a-hot-and-dangerous-summer/2018/07/26/cf960ba8-905c-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html,"President Trump , who in the past has called global warming a hoax , has vowed to pull the United States out of the accord as soon as that becomes possible , in 2020 . The 2017 National Climate Assessment , released in November , concluded what it has for nearly three decades : Human-made climate change is real , and the impacts have already started .",false causality | |