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@DeSmog
Dec 20, 2022 • 11 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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DEBUNK: 🎅 Seasonal Smog! 🎄
This year we’ve seen a wave of false claims from opponents of climate action exploiting the Ukraine war & energy crisis to push fossil fuels.

Here are the top 6 bogus climate claims of 2022 - & the evidence for why they're wrong.🧵 #DeBunk Image
1. Net Zero
Climate deniers pushed the false idea that net zero policies caused the energy crisis

In fact, it's caused by the high wholesale price of gas, hiked by the Ukraine war.
Timely climate action could’ve saved households billions. @DrSimEvans
carbonbrief.org/analysis-cutti… Image
2. ‘Solar & wind vs food’
In 2022 some MPs falsely claimed more onshore wind & solar farms would threaten farming

In fact, renewables plans would use 0.32% of UK land (0.02% wind + 0.3% solar). 71% of UK land is currently used for agriculture @DefraGovUK
eciu.net/media/press-re… ImageImage
3. Fracking
This year climate deniers, media & MPs pushed for fracking “to cut energy bills”. PM Liz Truss adopted this policy.

In fact, shale gas would be sold at (high) global prices. Renewable energy is 9x cheaper.
(... & fracking causes earthquakes)
theguardian.com/environment/20… Image
Fracking was a key demand of the network of backbench MPs & activists around Global Warming Policy Foundation who oppose net zero & push fossil fuels.

For more on this network see DeSmog’s map:
desmog.com/2022/03/18/map… #DeBunk
4. Climate forecasts
In January, author Jordan Peterson used his large platform to claim climate models are unreliable & full of “errors”.

In fact, climate models have accurately predicted global temperature rises.
carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-w… Graphic: @CarbonBrief
Jordan Peterson was a major source of climate science misinformation this year, calling climate action “totalitarian”.

See more on Peterson & climate in our DeSmog profile: desmog.com/jordan-peterso…
5. Coal.
Michael Gove claims the newly approved coal mine in Cumbria is needed to produce steel for UK use.

In fact, UK steel industry figures say 90% of its coal would be exported due to high levels of sulphur &the shift to greener ways to produce steel
theguardian.com/environment/20… Image
Gove also claims carbon offsets will make the new Cumbria coal mine “net zero”.

In fact, it will emit 400k tonnes of greenhouse gas per year (= to 200k cars) before the coal is even burned.
Carbon offset experts call Gove’s claim “nonsense”.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
6. Sun & wind
This year saw claims renewable energy “does not work” because the amount of sunlight & wind varies.

In fact, wind & solar can generate majority of energy cheaply & reliably, supported by storage & other sources. Graphic: @NationalGridESO
iea.org/news/renewable… Image
If you enjoyed this #DeBunk round-up of some of 2022’s false climate claims, share this thread & follow @DeSmog for more.

You can read about our DeBunk project here:
desmog.com/2022/10/31/des… /end

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Learn more about this study in @Dana_Drugmand's new article and we'll cover the highlights here 👇

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A fight is brewing in South Louisiana over @airproducts proposal to build a $4.5 billion “Clean Energy Complex” that would manufacture so-called blue hydrogen. desmog.com/2023/02/17/air…
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Feb 17, 2023
DEBUNK: Spiked columnist Ella Whelan made misleading claims about North Sea oil & renewable energy on a recent BBC Question Time.

Here is the evidence for why she’s wrong - and Spiked’s record of climate science denial & fossil fuel funding. 🧵 #DeBunk Image
Whelan suggested the UK government invest in “new exploration of North Sea oil” to grow the economy.

But @IEA says new oil projects would threaten climate targets to limit warming to 1.5C.

iea.org/news/pathway-t… 2/
Whelan claimed “wind turbines & solar panels are not going to keep us warm”

In fact in 2022
-renewables provided more UK electricity than gas in winter
@ECIU_UK
- 27% of UK electricity was from wind power @NationalGridESO
-Wind & solar = EU's top power source
@CarbonBrief 3/ Image
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Jan 12, 2023
DEBUNK: Author Matt Ridley made several misleading claims in The Times & Daily Mail about climate change impacts.

Here’s the evidence for why he’s wrong - and more on his record of downplaying climate change.🧵 1/ #DeBunk ImageImage
Matt Ridley claimed in The Times that walruses are “thriving” & dismissed as “nonsense” the idea climate change affects walrus migration.

In fact, walruses are classed “vulnerable” on the @IUCN red list of threatened species due to melting sea ice.
lse.ac.uk/granthaminstit… 2/
Matt Ridley also made the misleading claim that “arctic sea ice has declined hardly at all in winter since 2002” & by “20% in late summer”.

In fact, analysis shows a downward trend since 1979 for all months of the year. More here: interactive.carbonbrief.org/when-will-the-… @CarbonBrief 3/
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Dec 21, 2022
NEW: DeSmog analysis reveals delay tactics used by Big Ag against EU laws to protect birds and bees.

Findings come days after pressure from the pesticide and agribusiness lobby successfully stymies major green reforms, according to @ARC2020eu 1/
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The world’s four largest pesticide firms have spent over €20 million lobbying officials and the public since 2020.

On Monday, Europe conceded on calls to reassess pesticide reductions, in what campaigners call a major win for industry. 2/
Big Ag has employed tried and tested tactics from the fossil fuel lobby to resist the biodiversity measures, from funding research on the cost of transition to suggesting reforms are anti-science.

Experts say industry claims are misleading. 3/
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Nov 9, 2022
DEBUNK: Lord David Frost has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation as a trustee during COP27. He claims it gives an “objective view” of climate change.

In fact, GWPF is a climate science denial group with a pro-fossil fuel agenda. Here's the evidence: 🧵1/ #DeBunk
Lord Frost was welcomed to GWPF by founder & honourary president Lord Nigel Lawson.

During COP26, Lawson declared “global warming is not a problem”.
He also defended fossil fuels, & falsely claimed CO2's “principal effect” is the growth of plants
desmog.com/2021/11/04/glo… 2/
Despite Lord Frost's claim the GWPF provides an “objective view” on climate, the group actively promotes climate science denial.

In September alone it published two reports rejecting climate science on the greenhouse effect.
(See @IPCC_CH for reliable information.) 3/
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