Thread by @bansisharma

1. 'The Science' of Climate Change is Far From Settled

"Both research literature and government reports state clearly that heat waves in the US are now no more common than they were in 1900, and that the warmest temperatures in the US have not risen in the past fifty years."

2. Direct excerpts from recent published research or assessments of climate science published by the US government and the UN:

📌Humans have had no detectable impact on hurricanes over the past century. ...

3. Two more:
📌Greenland’s ice sheet isn’t shrinking any more rapidly today than it was 80 years ago.
📌The global area burned by wildfires has declined more than 25 percent since 2003 and 2020 was one of the lowest years on record.

4. Why haven’t you heard these facts before? Most of the disconnect comes from the long game of telephone that starts with the research literature and runs through the assessment reports to the summaries of the assessment reports and on to the media coverage.

5. There are abundant opportunities to get things wrong — both accidentally and on purpose — as the information goes through filter after filter to be packaged for various audiences.

6. Humans exert a growing, but physically small, warming influence on the climate. The results from many different climate models disagree with, or even contradict, each other and many kinds of observations.

7. In short, the science is insufficient to make useful predictions about how the climate will change over the coming decades, much less what effect our actions will have on it.

8. Much of the public portrayal of climate science is an effort to persuade rather than inform, and the information presented withholds either essential context or what doesn’t “fit.”

The End
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