Fox News’ Top 10 Climate Science Distortions And Fabrications
1. Global warming “doesn’t exist”
2. 2009 was “the coldest year on record”
3. “Nearly all of the [Arctic] ice has returned”
4. “How can there be global warming if it’s snowing and it’s bitterly cold?”
5. “The Earth is actually cooling now”
6. Hacked emails prove scientists are “doctoring” data to exaggerate global warming
7. El Nino is the cause of warming of the past 30 years
8. Climate science warned of global cooling in the 1970s
9. “NASA acknowledges solar cycle, not man, responsible for global warming”
10. Phil Jones told BBC that “the Middle Ages were warmer than the climate now”
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Climate sceptics offer a peace deal. Well, no it wasn’t quite like that. But in Lisbon, Portugal, last week, I joined a group of 28 climate scientists, bloggers and professional contrarians who spent three days discussing how to encourage reconciliation in the increasing fractious debate about the science of climate change.
The meeting was the brainchild of University of Oxford science philosopher Jerry Ravetz, an 81-year-old Greenpeace member who fears Al Gore may have done as much damage to environmentalism as Joseph Stalin did to socialism. Post-Climategate, he found climate science characterised by “a poisoned atmosphere” in which “each side accuses the other of being corrupt”. Mainstream researchers were labelled “ideologues on the gravy train”, while sceptics were denigrated as “prostitutes and cranks”.
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