“The Great Barrier Reef has died again. 75 percent bleached apparently,” says Australian geophysicist Peter Ridd in an April 9, 2024 clip on Facebook.
Environment
“We are in a CO2 famine,” reads the title of a chart shared on Facebook on February 20, 2024. It appears to show decreasing levels of atmospheric CO2 — measured in parts per million (ppm) — throughout the planet’s history.
“This is why solar doesn’t WORK IN CANADA,” says text written in what appears to be a layer of snow covering a solar panel in a photo posted February 27, 2024 on Facebook.
“Stop buying all aquatic and processed products from Europe,” read Chinese text overlaid on a TikTok video uploaded on December 12, 2023.
“We will never impose unnecessary and heavy-handed measures on you, the British people. We will still meet our international commitments and hit Net Zero by 2050,” Sunak said in a tweet (archive) on September 20, 2023, marking a major climate announcement.
“OK, we need only one statistic to prove the Earth is not too hot for humans,” Moore says in an August 1, 2023 post on Twitter, which is being rebranded as “X.”
The altered screenshot was shared on Facebook here on January 19, 2023.
The video criticizes activists, politicians and the media for treating 2030 as a “cliff edge” for climate catastrophe — and for suggesting there are “12 years left to save the world,” a claim that traces back to when the UN report was released in 2018.
“Look closely. The effects of CO2 on the planet….,” says a November 27, 2022 tweet from former University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson that has tens of thousands of interactions.
“A global network of over 1200 scientists and professionals has prepared this urgent message. Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific,” says the text of the declaration under the title: “There is no climate emergency.”