WorksheetsClimate Claim Analysis
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 12mins
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.
Fallacy of the Inverse
Fallacy of the Converse
False Dilemma
If natural conditions are just right, the Earth will warm. The Earth is warming, so the natural conditions must be just right.
Fallacy of the Inverse
Fallacy of the Converse
Appeal to Ignorance
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.
Appeal to Consequences
False Dilemma
Appeal to Ignorance
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.
Fallacy of the Converse
Ad hominem
Appeal to Ignorance
Appeal to Authority
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"
Fallacy of the Converse
Straw Man
Appeal to Ignorance
Appeal to Authority
In the interglacial warm periods increasing CO2 concentrations sometimes lagged increasing temperatures, so today's rising temperatures also have some other cause.
Fallacy of the Converse
False Dilemma
Appeal to Ignorance
Fallacy of the Inverse
The idea that all life could be wiped off the planet because I take hot showers and drive to the grocery store is absurd.
Straw Man
Appeal to Consequences
Appeal to Ignorance
Appeal to Authority
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.
Fallacy of the Converse
False Dilemma
Appeal to Ignorance
Straw Man
IPCC is always talking about estimated risk and margins of error, but scientific facts must be 100% certain.
False Dilemma
Appeal to Consequences
Appeal to Ignorance
Appeal to Authority
Human contributions of CO2 to the atmosphere are tiny compared to natural sources, so our influence on climate can only be negligible also.
Fallacy of the Converse
False Dilemma
Appeal to Consequences
Straw Man
Scientists can't even predict next week's weather much less next year's climate.
False Dilemma
Straw Man
Appeal to Ignorance
Appeal to Consequences
What Greta Thunberg says about climate can't be trusted, she is just an emotional little girl with exploitive parents.
Appeal to Authority
Ad hominem
Appeal to Consequences
Straw Man
There is no "correct" temperature for Earth, so it's not something we need to worry about.
False Dilemma
Appeal to Ignorance
Appeal to Authority
Appeal to Consequences
The "hottest" year claims were based on statistically meaningless differences that fell within the margin of error.
Appeal to Authority
Fallacy of the Inverse
Appeal to Consequences
Straw Man
Geologist Bob Carter calls climate science, "kindergarten science" and suggests the results are completely meaningless.
Appeal to Authority
Ad hominem
Appeal to Consequences
Straw Man
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.
Appeal to Authority
False Dilemma
Appeal to Consequences
Straw Man
Climate model predictions are just the opinions of experts with a conflict of interest because they are paid to produce the models.
Ad hominem
Appeal to Ignorance
Appeal to Authority
Appeal to Consequences
Ocean sea level data is notoriously difficult to measure, therefore rising trends in the data are not real.
Appeal to Authority
False Dilemma
Appeal to Consequences
Fallacy of the Inverse
Columbia University physicist William Happer says, "demonization of carbon dioxide is like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler" (2014)
Fallacy of the Converse
Appeal to Ignorance
Appeal to Authority
False dilemma
Implementing even modest climate policies will eventually lead to even bigger restrictions of freedom and ultimately to a socialist government.
Appeal to Authority
False Dilemma
Appeal to Consequences
Straw Man
CO2 only stays in the atmosphere 4 years, so if we stop emitting now, then nature will absorb the extra quickly.
Fallacy of the Converse
Appeal to Ignorance
Straw Man
False dilemma
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.
Appeal to Authority
False Dilemma
Appeal to Consequences
Straw Man
