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Nikki Forrester

Science Editor, Climate

Flawed reasoning
- Climate
Posted on: 2020-03-19
CO2 can increase plant growth in greenhouses while also negatively affecting ecosystems and human societies

Claim:

CO2 is a plant nutrient...it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization. If CO2 was so terrible for the planet, then installing a CO2 generator in a greenhouse would kill the plants.

Source: Natural News, Mike Adams, 2013-06-22
Inaccurate
- Climate
Posted on: 2020-03-12
Sea levels rose faster in the past century than in previous time periods

Claim:

Sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization

Source: American Thinker, Thomas Lifson, 2020-03-07
Inaccurate
- Climate
Posted on: 2020-02-20
Sea levels have risen throughout the 20th century, contrary to claim in online articles

Claim:

Scientists were caught 'adjusting' sea level data to create false impression of rising oceans

Source: Breitbart, Signs of the Times, Vicki Batts, James Delingpole, 2019-05-28