My Viral Climate Modify Video Was Smeared Every Bit Imitation News. Hither Are The Facts.

by Marc Morano: An environmental scientist who writes a column for The Guardian has claimed that my video on climate change “spreads climate denial misinformation” to millions of viewers on Facebook. Not so.

Here is my point-by-point rebuttal to Dana Nuccitelli’s claims inward the British paper based on my video, which has attracted to a greater extent than than 8 1 grand one thousand views as well as 139,000 shares on Facebook. The video has therefore alarmed climate activists that they’re using it to pressure level Facebook to ban “climate deniers.”

Claim: “Basically, [Marc Morano’s] critique is that the study sample size was likewise small-scale to brand a conclusive decision close the aeroplane of skillful consensus. That’s a valid dot … ”
Response: So Nuccitelli admits my dot close “77 anonymous” scientists making upwards the alleged 97 percentage consensus is “a valid point.” Good. Let’s motion on.

Claim: “In fact, the authors of 7 carve upwards [climate] consensus studies using a multifariousness of approaches (some alongside real large sample sizes) teamed upwards inward 2016 to release a paper in conclusion that the skillful consensus on human-caused global warming is betwixt ninety as well as 100 percent. So, this critique is invalid when considering all the available consensus research.”

Response: Climate Depot, the website I founded, has covered as well as debunked the claims of these so-called “consensus” studies, which were a rehash of the same claims but packaged together to seem comprehensive. Chapter iii of my book, “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change,” is devoted to debunking the 97 percentage claims.

As I receive got detailed before: These claims “really confirm that it is easier to instruct papers published if they back upwards the narrative of man-made global warming.”

Responding to these “consensus” surveys, I told the Media Research Center: “These types of ‘consensus’ surveys are meant to furnish talking points to politicians as well as the media inward lodge to rhythm out dissenting voices as well as ban skeptics from the mainstream media. It frees the climate crisis promoter from having to interrogation whatever scientific points as well as instead allows them to say, ‘90 percentage of scientists agree. Case closed!’”

Nuccitelli, every bit seen here as well as here, has a history of skewing climate scientific discipline to tally his political narrative.

Claim: “Morano also critiques the consensus study that my colleagues (including John Cook) as well as I published inward 2013. He does therefore simply past times quoting economist Richard Tol proverb our 97 percentage figure ‘was pulled from sparse air.’ Tol argued that the methodology inward our study was flawed, but when nosotros applied his critiques inward a follow-up paper published inward 2014, nosotros found that the consensus was withal 97 [percent, plus or minus 1 percent].”

Response: Here are Tol’s ain words on Cook’s claim of 97 percentage consensus, as well as readers tin justice whether I accurately quoted him:The 97 percentage gauge is bandied close past times basically everybody. I had a unopen expect at what this study truly did. As far every bit I tin see, the gauge precisely crumbles when you lot touching it. None of the statements inward the papers [is] supported past times the information that’s inward the paper. The 97 percentage is essentially pulled from sparse air, it is non based on whatever credible interrogation whatsoever.Tol continued to live on unimpressed alongside Cook’s claims fifty-fifty later his follow-up paper published inward 2014. In 2015, Tol 1 time again ripped Cook’s continued claims of a 97 percentage consensus. “Cook’s analysis is a charge of old bollocks,” he wrote.

(I debated Cook inward 2015 at the U.N. Paris climate summit. Listen here.)

Claim: “In short, Morano’s only show to dispute the skillful consensus on human-caused global warming is to quote an economist who agrees the consensus is ninety to 100 percent, as well as that the experts are right that humans are responsible for global warming.”

Response: Tol has pushed dorsum on claims that he cited a consensus of 91 percent.

PolitiFact to Tol inward 2015: “The 91 percentage endorsement charge per unit of measurement is a straight quote from your paper: ‘The headline endorsement charge per unit of measurement would live on 91 percentage inward that case.’ (Cook cites it multiple times inward his reply to your paper.)”

Tol rebuffed this, writing dorsum to PolitiFact: “Do cheque the grammar: ‘would […] inward that case’ does inward no way betoken my understanding alongside the number. In fact, I instruct inward real clear that whatever number based on Cook’s information is unreliable.”

In addition, Nuccitelli’s claim inward The Guardian that my “only evidence” is Tol is non correct. In the 2-minute Facebook video, I alluded to Tol’s comment as well as to the other key “consensus” study. But inward my book, I devote a whole chapter to debunking all of the diverse 97 percentage consensus claims.

Also run across this as well as this. And past times climate “consensuses” receive got changed dramatically, every bit seen here as well as here.

Claim: “Morano claims that we’re non truly inward the midst of the hottest menses on record, as well as that ‘hottest year’ claims are ‘merely political statements’ because for example, he claims, scientists can’t say alongside 100 percentage certainty that 2016 was hotter than 2015 due to the margin of incertitude inward the data. This claim is similar to 1 made on Fox News that earned a ‘Pants on Fire’ rating from PolitiFact based on consultation alongside climate scientists. The years 2014 through 2017 are indeed the iv hottest years on record, exterior the arrive at of uncertainty.”

Response: First off, citing PolitiFact every bit a climate scientific discipline potency is beyond the pale, fifty-fifty for The Guardian. Second, the media has been forced to acknowledge that “hottest year” claims are statistical noise.

In 2015, the Associated Press issued a “clarification,” stating inward part:The storey also reported that 2014 was the hottest yr on record, according to the National Oceanic as well as Atmospheric Administration as well as NASA, but did non include the caveat that other recent years had average temperatures that were almost every bit high—and they all autumn inside a margin of fault that lessens the certainty that whatever 1 of the years was the hottest.“Hottest year” claims are purely political statements designed to persuade the world that the authorities needs to bring activity on man-made climate change.

In Chapter 7, my book deals alongside “hottest year” claims as well as their statistical significance.

Claim: “Morano argues that the experts are incorrect because at that spot are hundreds of factors influencing Earth’s climate, as well as that carbon dioxide ‘is 1 of these factors that gets essentially drowned out, as well as you lot can’t distinguish its lawsuit from natural variability.’ That claim is solely false, every bit elegantly illustrated inward this graphic created past times Bloomberg.”

Response: The claim hither is that carbon dioxide tin receive got a warming touching on on the atmosphere, but this does non hateful CO2 is the command knob of the climate.

Philip Stott, University of London’s professor emeritus of biogeography, rebuts the notion that carbon dioxide is the main climate alter driver, writing:As I receive got said, over as well as over again, the substitution dot has ever been this: Climate alter is governed past times hundreds of factors, or variables, as well as the real thought that nosotros tin deal climate alter predictably past times understanding as well as manipulating at the margins 1 politically selected constituent (CO2), is every bit misguided every bit it gets.

Climate is the most complex coupled nonlinear chaotic organisation known to man. Of course, at that spot are human influences inward it, nobody denies that. But what resultant volition they instruct past times petty alongside 1 variable (CO2) at the margins? I’m sorry, it’s scientific nonsense.Atmospheric scientist Hendrik Tennekes, a pioneer inward evolution of numerical weather condition prediction as well as one-time manager of interrogation at the Netherlands’ Royal National Meteorological Institute, has declared (as quoted inward my book): “I protestation vigorously the thought that the climate reacts similar a dwelling household heating organisation to a changed setting of the thermostat: precisely plough the dial, as well as the desired temperature volition before long live on reached.”

Claim: “Human-caused global warming at 1 time [is] far exterior the arrive at of natural variability. In fact, we’re at 1 time warming global temperatures more than xx times faster than Earth’s fastest natural climate changes.”

Response: Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ivar Giaever points out that “.8 degrees is what we’re discussing inward global warming. [Just] .8 degrees. If you lot enquire people inward full general what it is, they think—it’s 4 or v degrees. They don’t know it is therefore little.”

Climatologist Pat Michaels explained that inward whatever instance the world’s temperature “should live on close the exceed of the tape given the tape only begins inward the piece of cake 19th century when the surface temperature was withal reverberating from the Little Ice Age.”

“We are creating bully anxiety without it beingness justified … at that spot are no indications that the warming is therefore severe that nosotros require to panic,” award-winning climate scientist Lennart Bengtsson said. “The warming nosotros receive got had the in conclusion 100 years is therefore small-scale that if nosotros didn’t receive got meteorologists as well as climatologists to mensurate it nosotros wouldn’t receive got noticed it at all.”

As climatologist Roy Spencer wrote inward 2016:Global warming as well as climate change, fifty-fifty if it is 100 percentage caused past times humans, is therefore tiresome that it cannot live on observed past times anyone inward their lifetime. Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts as well as other natural disasters receive got yet to exhibit whatever obvious long-term change. This agency that inward lodge for politicians to advance policy goals (such every bit forcing expensive solar unloose energy on the masses or creating a carbon tax), they receive got to plough normal weather condition disasters into ‘evidence’ of climate change.And fifty-fifty if nosotros truly faced a man-made climate catastrophe, nosotros would all live on doomed!

University of Pennsylvania geologist Robert Giegengack, every bit I write inward my book, noted inward 2014: “None of the strategies that receive got been offered past times the USA authorities or past times the EPA or past times anybody else has the remotest lead chances of altering climate if inward fact climate is controlled past times carbon dioxide.”

Claim: “And of course, climate scientists receive got observed human fingerprints all over climate alter … ”

Response: As Spencer wrote, “There is no fingerprint of human-caused versus naturally-caused climate alter … To claim the changes are ‘unprecedented’ cannot live on demonstrated alongside reliable data, as well as are contradicted past times some published paleoclimate information which suggests most centuries sense substantial warming or cooling.”

Richard Lindzen, an MIT climate scientist, said that believing CO2 controls the climate “is pretty unopen to believing inward magic.” Climate Depot revealed the existent way they discover the “fingerprint” of CO2.

Nuccitelli’s “fingerprint” declaration inward The Guardian echoes claims past times the Associated Press from 2017, when AP scientific discipline reporter Seth Borenstein wrote: “There’s a scientifically accepted method for determining if some wild weather condition lawsuit has the fingerprints of man-made climate change, as well as it involves intricate calculations. Those could bring weeks or months to complete, as well as and therefore fifty-fifty longer to live on checked past times other scientists.”

I responded to Borenstein’s claims past times writing that he seems to believe “there is some form of arcane dark box that finds the fingerprint of man-made global warming” as well as it is available only to a lead few.

Claim: “It would live on absurd to bring Marc Morano’s discussion over the show published inward peer-reviewed studies past times climate scientists at NASA as well as other scientific institutions some the world.”

Response: I wholeheartedly agree. There is no ground to bring the discussion of either The Guardian’s Nuccitelli or me. We receive got science, data, as well as the geologic history of the world to handgrip that.

Current NASA climate claims (under Gavin Schmidt as well as formerly James Hansen) are steeped inward politics as well as funding. Former NASA scientists receive got criticized the agency (see here as well as here).

Other prominent scientists spend upwards carbon dioxide fears.

Ivy League geologist Robert Giegengack, one-time chairman of the Department of world as well as Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania, spoke out against fears of rising CO2 impacts promoted past times Al Gore as well as others. Giegengack noted that “for most of Earth’s history, the globe has been warmer than it has been for the in conclusion 200 years. It has rarely been cooler.”

He explained:[Gore] claims that temperature increases solely because to a greater extent than CO2 inward the atmosphere traps the sun’s heat. That’s precisely incorrect … It’s a natural interplay. As temperature rises, CO2 rises, as well as vice versa. … It’s difficult for us to say that CO2 drives temperature. It’s easier to say temperature drives CO2.In 2014, Giegengack told Climate Depot: “The world has experienced real few periods when CO2 was lower than it is today.”
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Marc Morano is executive manager as well as principal correspondent for ClimateDepot.com, a projection of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a free-market retrieve tank inward Washington, D.C., where he also is communications director. Shared past times The Daily Signal

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