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Climate Claim Analysis

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

For several years global surface temperatures were setting a new record high every year and it seemed clear that global warming was happening. But this year is much cooler than last year, so the whole warming thing must be correcting itself.

a)

Fallacy of the Inverse

b)

Fallacy of the Converse

c)

False Dilemma

2.

If natural conditions are just right, the Earth will warm. The Earth is warming, so the natural conditions must be just right.

a)

Fallacy of the Inverse

b)

Fallacy of the Converse

c)

Appeal to Ignorance

3.

IPCC authors do not make the final edits to the chapters they author, instead the final text conforms to the UN objective of building support for world taxation and energy rationing.

a)

Appeal to Consequences

b)

False Dilemma

c)

Appeal to Ignorance

4.

Thousands of experts on a variety of scientific topics signed the Global Warming Petition Project (opposing climate action), so scientific consensus on climate change must be pretty shaky.

a)

Fallacy of the Converse

b)

Ad hominem

c)

Appeal to Ignorance

d)

Appeal to Authority

5.

MIT Climate Scientist Richard Lindzen says, "CO2 is hardly poisonous, on the contrary it's essential for life on Earth and levels as high as 5,000 ppm are permitted in submarines and the space station"

a)

Fallacy of the Converse

b)

Straw Man

c)

Appeal to Ignorance

d)

Appeal to Authority

6.

In the interglacial warm periods increasing CO2 concentrations sometimes lagged increasing temperatures, so today's rising temperatures also have some other cause.

a)

Fallacy of the Converse

b)

False Dilemma

c)

Appeal to Ignorance

d)

Fallacy of the Inverse

7.

The idea that all life could be wiped off the planet because I take hot showers and drive to the grocery store is absurd.

a)

Straw Man

b)

Appeal to Consequences

c)

Appeal to Ignorance

d)

Appeal to Authority

8.

Scientific consensus was wrong in the past about things like gravity or Earth as the center of the universe, so the scientific consensus today can't be trusted either.

a)

Fallacy of the Converse

b)

False Dilemma

c)

Appeal to Ignorance

d)

Straw Man

9.

IPCC is always talking about estimated risk and margins of error, but scientific facts must be 100% certain.

a)

False Dilemma

b)

Appeal to Consequences

c)

Appeal to Ignorance

d)

Appeal to Authority

10.

Human contributions of CO2 to the atmosphere are tiny compared to natural sources, so our influence on climate can only be negligible also.

a)

Fallacy of the Converse

b)

False Dilemma

c)

Appeal to Consequences

d)

Straw Man

11.

Scientists can't even predict next week's weather much less next year's climate.

a)

False Dilemma

b)

Straw Man

c)

Appeal to Ignorance

d)

Appeal to Consequences

12.

What Greta Thunberg says about climate can't be trusted, she is just an emotional little girl with exploitive parents.

a)

Appeal to Authority

b)

Ad hominem

c)

Appeal to Consequences

d)

Straw Man

13.

There is no "correct" temperature for Earth, so it's not something we need to worry about.

a)

False Dilemma

b)

Appeal to Ignorance

c)

Appeal to Authority

d)

Appeal to Consequences

14.

The "hottest" year claims were based on statistically meaningless differences that fell within the margin of error.

a)

Appeal to Authority

b)

Fallacy of the Inverse

c)

Appeal to Consequences

d)

Straw Man

15.

Geologist Bob Carter calls climate science, "kindergarten science" and suggests the results are completely meaningless.

a)

Appeal to Authority

b)

Ad hominem

c)

Appeal to Consequences

d)

Straw Man

16.

The EPA has a graph showing Heat Index values were much higher in the 1930s than they are today, so this rising temperature story is bogus.

a)

Appeal to Authority

b)

False Dilemma

c)

Appeal to Consequences

d)

Straw Man

17.

Climate model predictions are just the opinions of experts with a conflict of interest because they are paid to produce the models.

a)

Ad hominem

b)

Appeal to Ignorance

c)

Appeal to Authority

d)

Appeal to Consequences

18.

Ocean sea level data is notoriously difficult to measure, therefore rising trends in the data are not real.

a)

Appeal to Authority

b)

False Dilemma

c)

Appeal to Consequences

d)

Fallacy of the Inverse

19.

Columbia University physicist William Happer says, "demonization of carbon dioxide is like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler" (2014)

a)

Fallacy of the Converse

b)

Appeal to Ignorance

c)

Appeal to Authority

d)

False dilemma

20.

Implementing even modest climate policies will eventually lead to even bigger restrictions of freedom and ultimately to a socialist government.

a)

Appeal to Authority

b)

False Dilemma

c)

Appeal to Consequences

d)

Straw Man

21.

CO2 only stays in the atmosphere 4 years, so if we stop emitting now, then nature will absorb the extra quickly.

a)

Fallacy of the Converse

b)

Appeal to Ignorance

c)

Straw Man

d)

False dilemma

22.

History shows that warmer eras meant better crops and food stability and therefore had fewer wars, so a warming planet could mean a more peaceful planet.

a)

Appeal to Authority

b)

False Dilemma

c)

Appeal to Consequences

d)

Straw Man