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<title>News Detective - Recent claims in Climate Change</title>
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<title>Plants are no longer absorbing carbon dioxide</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/39037/plants-are-no-longer-absorbing-carbon-dioxide</link>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color:transparent; color:#000000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:12pt&quot;&gt;Honestly, this claim made me a little agitated and upset. It is very obviously false. This made it very interesting to read about, mostly because that&#039;s not how our world works. Photosynthesis will never stop because CO2 will never not be produced. If that were to happen then they would stop emitting oxygen and we wouldn&#039;t be able to breath.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color:transparent; color:#000000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:12pt&quot;&gt;It was super interesting to dig a little deeper about this topic because there were many articles out there that vouched for this claim.&amp;nbsp;It&#039;s also very scary to think how some people can be so ignorant to topics like this. Climate change is very real.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color:transparent; color:#000000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:12pt&quot;&gt;Don&#039;t get me wrong, climate change is heavily ruining our world, but I think CO2 absorption would be the least of our worries. When I think of climate change, I think of greenhouse gasses, polar bears losing their home, and how we are (corporations) choosing money over our world. I wouldn&#039;t have even thought about the CO2 levels, so it was interesting reading about it.&amp;nbsp;I think more people need to be educated on this topic, plants don&#039;t just stop their basic nature. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Trump administration has had the worst action record with climate change.</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/39179/trump-administration-worst-action-record-with-climate-change</link>
<description>&lt;p&gt;According to this graph on the Climate Action Tracker,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/usa/&quot;&gt;https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/usa/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;the Trump Administration has had some of the worst action record when it comes to climate change. Is this true? What are some policies that have either been, removed or initiated to make this accurate?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>claim: We will not reach net zero emissions by 2050</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/39190/claim-we-will-not-reach-net-zero-emissions-by-2050</link>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#000000&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color:#ffffff&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; This claim is partially untrue, but needs more context. We as a nation have the capability to reach net zero emissions by 2050, but there is an extremely laborious amount of work that needs to go into this endeavor. In 2015, 196 countries all partook in the Paris Agreement, which aimed to reduce global warming, and limit the earths warming to no more than 1.5 degrees celsius. To achieve this, countries must cut their emissions by 55% by 2025 (United Nations Climate Actions, 2025).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Recent data from the world’s top emitters shows that reaching this goal, and even meeting net zero by 2050 is possible. China’s emissions have stabilized as renewables outpace demand, the U.S. cut emissions by 1.9% in 2023, the EU has reduced ETS-sector emissions 47% since 2005, Japan reached record-low emissions in 2024, and Brazil cut deforestation by 36% in 2023. India has already surpassed 50% non-fossil power capacity (Climate Action Tracker, 2024).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#000000&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color:#ffffff&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; Overall, this claim is false but needs to be contextualized.&amp;nbsp;We do in fact have the ability to reach net zero emissions by 2050, and many countries are already in the process of directing down the path of success. But again, this is all still a work in progress, and if nations are able to keep up their efforts, we may very well be able to reach our goal.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Wildfires in the U.S. have doubled in frequency over the past decade due to climate change.</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/39197/wildfires-have-doubled-frequency-over-decade-climate-change</link>
<description>&lt;p data-start=&quot;74&quot; data-end=&quot;772&quot;&gt;The claim that “wildfires in the U.S. have doubled in frequency over the past decade due to climate change” highlights a growing concern about the relationship between warming temperatures and fire activity. Climate change has contributed to hotter, drier conditions in many regions—especially in the Western United States—creating an environment where vegetation dries out more quickly and ignites more easily. Prolonged droughts, heat waves, and earlier snowmelt extend the fire season, allowing fires to start earlier in the year and burn later into the fall. These climate-driven conditions increase both the likelihood and intensity of wildfires, making them harder to control once they begin.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p data-start=&quot;774&quot; data-end=&quot;1546&quot; data-is-last-node=&quot;&quot; data-is-only-node=&quot;&quot;&gt;However, the specific claim that wildfires have “doubled in frequency” is an oversimplification and may not accurately reflect the full data. While the total area burned by wildfires has generally increased and fire seasons have become longer and more severe, the number of individual fires varies by year and region. In some places, the frequency of large, destructive fires has risen even if the total number of fires has not doubled. Additional human-related factors—such as land-use patterns, forest management practices, and accidental ignitions—also play major roles in wildfire trends. Therefore, while climate change clearly contributes to worsening wildfire conditions, the exact magnitude of the increase in frequency requires careful analysis of long-term data.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>claim: DEI programs are academically beneficial for marginalized communities</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/39210/programs-academically-beneficial-marginalized-communities</link>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#000000&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;This claim has been disputed within the past few years with Texas&#039;s passing of the senate bill 17, or the &quot;anti-DEI law&quot; in 2023. There have been some concerns that DEI, or diversity, equity, and inclusion policies aimed at creating a safe space for marginalized communities within schools for non - white and LGBTQ+ communities restricts inclusion by centering these demographics. However, these DEI offices are meant for coordinating mentorships, tutoring, and pushing for more diverse&amp;nbsp;faculty. These spaces help underrepresented and historically marginalized demographics access academic support and success. Restorative-practice rollouts, a core practice of DEI,&amp;nbsp;have cut suspension days by 18% and student arrests by 19% in large urban districts within Chicago schools (University of Illinois 2023).&amp;nbsp;Research&amp;nbsp;links these DEI programs to reduced disciplinary gaps and improved academic results for Black and Latino students;&amp;nbsp; reporting up to 35% fewer in-school arrests and 18% fewer out-of-school suspensions after DEI-aligned reforms; and research on inclusive schools and bias-reduction finds these practices raise grades, test scores, and graduation rates for minority students (National Education Association, 2023).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#000000&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Overall, these spaces are meant to foster academic success and provide resources for marginalized groups such as black and brown students, as well as LGBTQ+ students. DEI is essential in closing the education gap and creating a safe space for these individuals. So yes, this claim is true.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Top economists say global inequality has become such a big problem that countries must work together</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/39251/economists-global-inequality-problem-countries-together</link>
<description>The article talks about how some of the world&amp;#039;s leading economists are warning that inequality isn&amp;#039;t just something individual countries can deal with anymore. They explain that wealth and income gaps have gotten so large, and are growing so fast that this has turned into a global issue. What stood out to me is that they are not just talking about rich vs poor countries but inequality within countries too. They say that even places with strong economies are seeing the divide between the richest individuals and everyone else widening. &lt;br /&gt;
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The economists argue that fixing this problem requires more than national policies, they believe that there needs to be a coordinated global action. They compare it mainly to climate change, if each country tries to solve it alone the results will not go far enough. Therefore they are asking for a much more organized system where countries share data and create international rules to prevent further concentration of wealth. They said in the article that without this cooperation, inequality will continue to rise no matter how hard individual governments try to address it. &lt;br /&gt;
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The article also explains why this matters on a larger scale. Inequality effects almost everything from overall economic stability, to how much people trust their governments. With growing gaps between groups of people, political tension can rise like we are seeing right here in the United States. This is why I found this article so important to fact check, because if it is possible to narrow the gap by working with other nations we should not be closing down our borders but opening new ideas and change.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Democrats have stopped talking about climate change</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/38712/democrats-have-stopped-talking-about-climate-change</link>
<description>Democrats used to focus on climate change as one of their big-ticket issues to discuss. Now this has changed as democrats focus less and less on the issues with the climate in their campaigns and actions. In 2000, Al Gore ran his campaign on the concept of climate change and what he would do as president to try to prevent it from occurring. While he didn&amp;#039;t win the election, his ideas on climate change became part of the Democratic Party&amp;#039;s values. &lt;br /&gt;
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Recently, Democrats haven&amp;#039;t been bringing up climate change as much, downplaying the significance of the issues impacting our planet in an attempt to appeal to moderate voters.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>How climate change is making spring warmer, rainier and earlier</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/38885/how-climate-change-making-spring-warmer-rainier-and-earlier</link>
<description>According to this article, the beginning of spring is getting earlier, by 2 or more weeks at most, as it is getting hotter. It also claims that it is getting rainy. &lt;br /&gt;
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This article shows some data about the climate and the temperature in spring and how those have changed, and associates those phenomena with climate change. Aren&amp;#039;t there any other causes or factors that can account for those?</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The first 6 months of 2025 were the &#039;costliest ever&#039; for U.S. weather disasters on record due to climate change.</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/38890/months-costliest-weather-disasters-record-climate-change</link>
<description>There are records proving that the first 6 months of 2025 have been the costliest year in the U.S compared to 1980, due to weather disasters. But NBC news made the claim that this was due to climate change, without providing information to specify.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Climate Change is taking millions of lives each year</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/38479/climate-change-is-taking-millions-of-lives-each-year</link>
<description>In a news release on October 29, 2025, the World Health Organization warned that inaction on climate change already costs millions of lives each year. It points out that 12 of 20 key health-related indicators reached record levels, linking rising heat, air pollution, and other climate-driven stresses to increasing mortality, strains on health systems, and economic losses.&lt;br /&gt;
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Among its major findings is that heat-related mortality has increased by 23 % since the 1990s, with an estimated average of 546,000 heat-related deaths per year. The report also points out that fossil fuel subsidies remain enormous—in 2023, governments provided about US$956 billion in net fossil fuel subsidies, which in many countries exceeded spending on health—showing how political priorities continue to hamstring efforts to both mitigate climate change and protect public health.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Hurricane Melissa is worse than Hurricane Katrina</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/38462/hurricane-melissa-is-worse-than-hurricane-katrina</link>
<description>&lt;p&gt;As Hurricane Melissa rapidly intensified into a Category 5 hurricane, with 185 mph winds, early Tuesday, October 28, 2025, it&#039;s been compared to peak Hurricane Katrina back in ‘05. According to the &lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/28/weather/hurricane-melissa-jamaica-landfall&quot;&gt;NYT,&lt;/a&gt; around 8 AM PST on October 28, 2025, they reported that the storm’s attributes are comparable to some of the most destructive hurricanes formed in recent history. It&#039;s been stated that Hurricane Mellisa is the second Atlantic storm to ever make landfall with estimated winds of 185 mph, the other being the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935. This makes the hurricane one of the strongest Atlantic storms on record, and has become to most powerful to hit Jamaica. Its destructive path, making landfall, was one of the strongest Category 5 storms on record, based on&amp;nbsp;&lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/28/weather/hurricane-melissa-jamaica-landfall&quot;&gt;the New York Times&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The intense storm was one of the strongest ever in the region as it tore off roofs and also ripped down light poles found in its way. Even as Melissa was weakening after passing over Jamaica, it was still producing up to 130 m.p.h winds and remained a dangerous storm as it made landfall in Cuba.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Facial recognition technology misidentifies people of color more frequently.</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/36626/facial-recognition-technology-misidentifies-frequently</link>
<description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;The claim that facial recognition technology misidentifies people of color more frequently is accurate. This issue really came to light after multiple studies examined how AI security systems identify people of different looks and then began to expand outside of that and look at the facial recognition systems in our phones which borrows from those security systems.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;This issue found steam after&amp;nbsp;&lt;a style=&quot;color: rgb(150, 96, 125);&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://news.mit.edu/2018/study-finds-gender-skin-type-bias-artificial-intelligence-systems-0212?utm&quot;&gt;MIT Media Lab’s Gender Shades&amp;nbsp;project&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in 2018 which tested facial recognition systems from IBM, Microsoft, and Face++ for different genders and skin-tones; the study found error rates of&amp;nbsp;0.8% for light-skinned men&amp;nbsp;but&amp;nbsp;up to 34% for dark-skinned women.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;More evidence comes from&amp;nbsp;&lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2019/12/nist-study-evaluates-effects-race-age-sex-face-recognition-software?utm_source=chatgpt.com&quot; style=&quot;color: rgb(150, 96, 125);&quot;&gt;National Institute of Standards and Technology&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;who state that they “found empirical evidence for the existence of demographic differentials in the majority of the face recognition algorithms we studied”.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;I feel that this issue might stem from the data sets that AI systems are trained upon, which would highlight human oversight and major biases in the figureheads of current AI companies.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Electric vehicles are worse for the environment than gas cars because of battery production.</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/36551/electric-vehicles-environment-because-battery-production</link>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Largely speaking, the claim that electric vehicles are worse for the environment in comparison to gas cars is untrue. While it is true that the production of EVs and their batteries contribute to more carbon emissions upfront compared to gas powered cars, there are multiple scientific studies that show that over a course of a car’s lifetime EVs emit substantially lower greenhouse gases.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This misconception is likely rooted in the manufacturing phase of cars, as battery production involves mining and refining resources leading to large environmental consequences. The&amp;nbsp;&lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/are-electric-vehicles-definitely-better-climate-gas-powered-cars&quot;&gt;MIT Climate Panel&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;stats that, “building the 80 kWh lithium-ion battery … creates between 2.5 and 16 metric tons of CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;&amp;nbsp;…&amp;nbsp;This intensive battery manufacturing means that building a new EV can produce around 80% more emissions than building a comparable gas-powered car”. However, this is just one part of the larger view, because once on the road, EVs generate literally no tailpipe emissions. According to the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://theicct.org/publication/a-global-comparison-of-the-life-cycle-greenhouse-gas-emissions-of-combustion-engine-and-electric-passenger-cars/&quot;&gt;International Council on Clean Transportation&lt;/a&gt;, “emissions over the lifetime of average medium-size BEVs [battery electric vehicles] registered today are already lower than comparable gasoline cars by 66%–69% in Europe, 60%–68% in the United States, 37%–45% in China, and 19%–34% in India”.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, EVs have a break-even point wherein their operational emissions outweigh their manufacturing, as cited by&amp;nbsp;&lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/when-do-electric-vehicles-become-cleaner-than-gasoline-cars-2021-06-29/#:~:text=But%20keep%20going%20%2D%20you&#039;ll%20have%20to%20drive%20another%2013%2C500%20miles%20(21%2C725%20km)%20before%20you&#039;re%20doing%20less%20harm%20to%20the%20environment%20than%20a%20gas%2Dguzzling%20saloon.&quot;&gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;, “drive another 13,500 miles (21,725 km) before you&#039;re doing less harm to the environment than a gas-guzzling saloon”.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thus, the claim is unfounded and overall, an EV is better for the environment compared to a gas-powered car.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Climate change is directly affecting the aurora borealis</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/33909/climate-change-is-directly-affecting-the-aurora-borealis</link>
<description>&lt;p&gt;According to a social media user referenced &lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/confidentlyincorrect/s/LxzMN0Q8Vd&quot;&gt;in this reddit post&lt;/a&gt;, climate change is affecting the typical locations where the aurora borealis appears. The user asserts: “…it isn’t normal to see them this frequently in places that far south. This is a direct effect of climate change.”&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2025 17:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>There is no empirical scientific evidence that proves man made CO2 is having any effect on the climate.</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/33915/empirical-scientific-evidence-proves-having-effect-climate</link>
<description>&lt;p&gt;This claim, featured on various blogs (e.g. &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://joannenova.com.au/2009/04/global-warming-a-classic-case-of-alarmism/&quot;&gt;the blog of well known climate change skeptic&amp;nbsp;Joanne Nova&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://prepareforchange.net/2017/11/25/climate-change-is-a-hoax/&quot;&gt;&#039;Prepare for Change&#039; group&#039;s website&lt;/a&gt;), and &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/climateskeptics/comments/17lytna/new_study_suggest_no_experimental_evidence_for/&quot;&gt;parroted by social media users&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and cites &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://www.lavoisier.com.au/articles/greenhouse-science/climate-change/DavidEvans-AClassicCaseofAlarmism-2009.pdf&quot;&gt;this report published by Dr. David Evans&lt;/a&gt;, which states &quot;There is no actual evidence that carbon dioxide emissions are causing global warming.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2025 17:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Electric vehicles are not worse for the environment than gas-powered cars because of battery production.</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/31760/electric-vehicles-environment-powered-because-production</link>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;Many claim that electric cars are actually worse than gas-powered vehicles,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;usually&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;focused&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;on&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;the environmental costs&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;mining&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;things&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;like lithium, cobalt, and nickel&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;used&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;in EV&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;battery life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;.&amp;nbsp;Various independent lifecycle&amp;nbsp;studies,&amp;nbsp;however,&amp;nbsp;have concluded&amp;nbsp;EVs&amp;nbsp;produce&amp;nbsp;less&amp;nbsp;overall&amp;nbsp;pollution&amp;nbsp;than gasoline-powered cars, even&amp;nbsp;accounting&amp;nbsp;for&amp;nbsp;producing&amp;nbsp;battery packs and&amp;nbsp;electricity.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;There is&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;certainly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;environmental&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;effect&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;production&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;of batteries, but this is&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;regained&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;after a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;few&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;years of use&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;with&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;zero tailpipe emissions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Climate Change has had a significant effect on California, one of the most climate focused states</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/23220/climate-change-significant-effect-california-climate-focused</link>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Climate change will have drastic impacts on the entire planet, however, especially in California and its coastal regions there have been and will continue to be detrimental effects from climate change. Sea level rise, the loss of the Sierra snowpack and depleted water supply, and an increased risk of forrest fires are some of the impacts that have already been felt by California residents. Specifically in Northern California, there have been many forrest fires in previous years that have been significant and negatively impacted living conditions across the entire area, even outside of the area of natural disaster.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2023/07/california-is-a-model-for-climate-change-action-when-international-efforts-fall-short?lang=en&quot;&gt;https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2023/07/california-is-a-model-for-climate-change-action-when-international-efforts-fall-short?lang=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://oag.ca.gov/environment/impact&quot;&gt;https://oag.ca.gov/environment/impact&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 01:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Climate change will make snowfall worse in some areas of the United States.</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/23155/climate-change-will-make-snowfall-worse-areas-united-states</link>
<description>&amp;quot;Experts predict climate change could actually make snow worse in some areas of the U.S. Meanwhile, nearly two-thirds of the U.S. is seeing less snowfall than in the 1970s.&amp;quot;</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2024 23:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Thousands of species could go extinct due to climate change, depending on how hot the planet gets.</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/23131/thousands-species-extinct-climate-change-depending-planet</link>
<description>A new study projects biodiversity threats if global warming speeds up. Under the most extreme scenarios, about one in three species could be facing extinction by the end of the century.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2024 21:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>We need genetically modified crops to feed the world&#039;s growing population</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/23069/need-genetically-modified-crops-worlds-growing-population</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2024 02:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>USC students practice sustainability effectively</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/22882/usc-students-practice-sustainability-effectively</link>
<description>The USC University Park Campus has numerous sustainability movements that seem to have garnered positive student reception. From compost bins to a sustainability hub, student environmental involvement is positive at USC.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 22:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>&quot;Climate change is a hoax&quot;</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/19250/climate-change-is-a-hoax</link>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;input-sentence~0&quot; style=&quot;box-sizing:inherit; color:#172b4d; font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;,sans-serif; white-space-collapse:preserve&quot;&gt;The article &quot;The HOAX of Climate Change&quot; calls it a political scam. Some scientists avoided the data and tried to shut down opposing views, referencing the 2009 &quot;Climategate&quot; controversy. It also said any warming we&#039;re seeing is just part of natural solar cycles and not because of human actions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;input-sentence~1&quot; style=&quot;box-sizing:inherit; color:#172b4d; font-family:&amp;quot;Open Sans&amp;quot;,sans-serif; white-space-collapse:preserve&quot;&gt; Those claims are false because several investigations have exonerated the scientists behind those accusations, and temperature records from NASA and NOAA plainly show that the planet has been steadily warming, due mostly to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, not solar activity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2024 23:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>2023 was the hottest year ever recorded by far.</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/18312/2023-was-the-hottest-year-ever-recorded-by-far</link>
<description>This article claims that 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded, due to climate change.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 05:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Cimate change is causing trees to struggle to &quot;breathe&quot;</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/18184/cimate-change-is-causing-trees-to-struggle-to-breathe</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 03:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Taylor Swifts Air travel is causing irreversible damage on the environment</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/18099/taylor-swifts-travel-causing-irreversible-damage-environment</link>
<description>The amount of Carbon emission that Taylor Swifts private jets are causing from the Eras tour flights, are contributing to mass amounts of carbon and distress to climate change, that could be irreversible on the environment.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 02:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>plants are no longer absorbing carbon dioxide</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/16939/plants-are-no-longer-absorbing-carbon-dioxide</link>
<description>While elevated levels of CO2 can help plants grow, the impacts of climate change mean it’s not all good news for plants. However, after researching this claim, I found a study done by a researcher at the Columbia Climate School drawing the conclusion that with global warming, and climate change, we are seeing a spike in CO2 content in our air, which has no negative effect on the amount of CO2 that plants absorb.&lt;br /&gt;
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While there are negative effects of climate change that plants experience, it is not from a lack of CO2 absorption, it is from other factors that cause plants to release water at a slower rate.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 21:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Plants aren&#039;t absorbing carbon anymore</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/16598/plants-arent-absorbing-carbon-anymore</link>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/14/nature-carbon-sink-collapse-global-heating-models-emissions-targets-evidence-aoe&quot;&gt;Guardian article&lt;/a&gt; excerpt (claim bolded):&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This activity is one of thousands of natural processes that regulate the Earth’s climate. Together, the planet’s oceans, forests, soils and other natural carbon sinks&amp;nbsp;absorb about&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;half of all human emissions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But as the Earth heats up, scientists are increasingly concerned that those crucial processes are breaking down.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In 2023, the hottest year ever recorded,&amp;nbsp;preliminary findings&amp;nbsp;by an international team of researchers show the amount of carbon absorbed by land has temporarily collapsed. &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The final result was that forest, plants and soil – as a net category – absorbed almost no carbon.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 22:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>According to CBS News, satellite Images show that Hurricane Milton may have reshaped Florida.</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/16133/according-satellite-images-hurricane-milton-reshaped-florida</link>
<description>Satellite images taken before and after Hurricane Milton struck and passed over Florida last week show the extent of coastal damage.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 06:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Atlantic Ocean is the Hottest it has Ever Been</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/15950/the-atlantic-ocean-is-the-hottest-it-has-ever-been</link>
<description>I&amp;#039;ve been keeping up on the multiple hurricanes that have slammed parts of Mexico and the south eastern coasts of the United States. After seeing lots about how there is a need to create a new category of hurricane because of how powerful these hurricanes have been and that these hurricanes in particular are pushing the mathematical limits of what we thought Earth was capable of creating. &lt;br /&gt;
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The fact of climate change being behind these hurricanes is undeniable, but I&amp;#039;m curious to see how the Atlantic oceans temperatures compare to its temperatures in the past; as I&amp;#039;ve read that it is the hottest that it has ever been.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 04:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Social media influencers gained followers and views by refusing to evacuate during Hurricane Milton.</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/15366/social-influencers-followers-refusing-evacuate-hurricane</link>
<description>Aspiring and established influencers experienced a surge of engagement by posting content of hurricane Milton, with some people staying in zones where evacuation was encouraged in order to post content of the storm.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 22:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>&quot;Americans are flocking to U.S. regions most threatened by climate change&quot;</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/15239/americans-flocking-regions-most-threatened-climate-change</link>
<description>In the past few decades, but especially post-pandemic, natural disaster-prone areas have seen substantial population growth. The populations of high-risk counties are growing at a faster pace than low-risk counties, as seen in the growth of regions such as Tampa, Florida, and Asheville, North Carolina, which have both recently been hit by a surge of destructive hurricanes.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 04:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>How Helene and Milton were supercharged by climate change.</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/15190/how-helene-and-milton-were-supercharged-by-climate-change</link>
<description>&lt;p style=&quot;font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;&quot;&gt;NPR Article:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;&quot;&gt;As Hurricane Milton approaches Florida&#039;s central west coast, residents are preparing for the worst. The storm exploded into a Category 5 hurricane earlier this week, and now threatens to be one of the strongest storms to ever hit the state.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;&quot;&gt;Like Hurricane Helene, which slammed into Florida and the Southeastern United States nearly two weeks ago, Milton is predicted to bring with it massive storm surges, destructive winds, heavy rain and the risk of death for those in its path.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;&quot;&gt;The damage Hurricane Milton could cause is chilling, but maybe not surprising.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;&quot;&gt;&quot;This season is looking to be an extraordinary one in a number of ways,&quot; NOAA administrator Rick Spinrad warned last May when the agency rolled out its annual hurricane outlook.&amp;nbsp;One of the big reasons: Climate change is making storms more intense.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr style=&quot;font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;&quot;&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;You&#039;re reading the Consider This newsletter, which unpacks one major news story each day.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://www.npr.org/newsletter/consider-this&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Subscribe here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to more from the&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510355/considerthis&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Consider This podcast&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr style=&quot;font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;&quot;&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;&quot;&gt;How climate change fueled Helene and Milton.&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;&quot;&gt;According to NOAA, 2023 saw record breaking hot water temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. Higher temperatures mean more powerful storms.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;&quot;&gt;&quot;Basically, when the water is warmer, storms can suck up way more of that moisture and that then falls as heavier rain,&quot; says NPR&#039;s Rachel Waldholz.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;&quot;&gt;The heat and water serve as energy for the storm, Waldholz says.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;&quot;&gt;&quot;So it makes it much more likely that we&#039;ll see the kind of rapid intensification that we saw, both with Helene and now with Milton, where storms get really, really big, really fast.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;&quot;&gt;Rising sea levels — driven by the melting of ice on land — are making storm surges more dangerous and destructive.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;&quot;&gt;&quot;When a storm like Milton comes along, driving this huge wall of water in front of it, and water levels are already higher than they used to be, that&#039;s a recipe for a really catastrophic storm surge. And right now, we&#039;re seeing predictions of 15 feet of storm surge in some places.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h3 style=&quot;font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;&quot;&gt;How it&#039;s impacting humans.&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;&quot;&gt;These supercharged storms not only threaten more people along the coasts, but also farther inland. Torrential downpours brought by Hurricane Helene caused devastating flash flooding as far as North Carolina.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;&quot;&gt;A recent study found that a hurricane the size and strength of Helene was made 200 to 500 times more likely by human-caused climate change.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;&quot;&gt;In the long term, the U.S. can expect to see more storms like Helene and Milton as long as warming continues.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;This episode was produced by Brianna Scott. It was edited by Sadie Babits and Courtney Dorning. Alejandra Borunda and Rebecca Hersher contributed reporting. Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;My explantation:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;&quot;&gt;I found this article off of the NPR.org website because I was curious about the intensity of Hurricane Milton and how that relates to human-caused climate change. This hurricane is considerably larger and more damaging than our world has seen in the past, and so I was curious on the part we played in all this as humans. Throughout the article, there were many mentions of the NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in which they stripped many of their facts from their study to put&amp;nbsp;in this article. The NOAA a United States federal agency that studies and monitors the Earth&#039;s oceans, atmosphere and coastal regions, so NPR using them is a reliable source. At the end of their article, though, they began a claim starting with &quot;a recent study found&quot; referring to the size and strength of the hurricane and did not cite where they found this information. I am interested in this claim but I want to know where they got this information from.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 01:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Climate change made Helen more dangerous. It also makes similar storms more likely.</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/15168/climate-change-helen-dangerous-makes-similar-storms-likely</link>
<description>Researchers found that Hurricane Helene was stronger, rainier, and significantly more likely because of climate change. The U.S. can expect more such storms in the future as warming continues. Researchers with the Word Weather Attribution released multiple studies on the impact of climate change stating that Helene was about 10% heavier due to human-caused climate change, similar to other damaging, climate-fueled hurricanes in the past decade. They also found that climate change made such heavy rainfall up to 70% more likely in central and southern Appalachia where flooding has destroyed homes and businesses leaving thousands of people without power.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 23:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Hurricane Helen and Milton are exacerbated due to government cloud seeding.</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/15076/hurricane-helen-milton-exacerbated-government-cloud-seeding</link>
<description>U.S. representative Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed on October 3rd that the government was controlling weather cycles to target red states as the election approached. Paul A. Szypula, a candidate for the US Senate, responded and claimed that the technology used for changing the weather is a stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), a technology designed to create clouds that reflect sunlight into space, cooling the planet in the hope of reversing the effects of global warming. Despite Szypula&amp;#039;s claim, this technology, while being developed, has not yet been deployed (according to Santa Clara University).</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Public control of fossil fuel resources for managed decline is the right way forward toward decarbonization transition.</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/14771/control-resources-managed-decline-decarbonization-transition</link>
<description>Public control of fossil fuel resources for managed decline is the right way forward toward decarbonization transition.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 07:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Phoenix will be inhabitable within 10 years due to extreme heat.</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/14740/phoenix-will-be-inhabitable-within-10-years-due-extreme-heat</link>
<description>Phoenix will be inhabitable within 10 years due to extreme heat.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2024 07:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Egypt Sets New All-Time Record High Temperature: +50.9°C (123.6°F) in Aswan!</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/14700/egypt-sets-new-all-time-record-high-temperature-9%C2%B0c-123-aswan</link>
<description>The siting of the temperature station where this &amp;quot;record&amp;quot; was recorded needs to be known. &amp;nbsp;If it&amp;#039;s in an urban area or at the airport it cannot be deemed reliable.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>NTHE ear term human extinction</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/13956/nthe-ear-term-human-extinction</link>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Based on this blog post:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://medium.com/@kconne/the-scientific-case-for-near-term-human-extinction-nthe-reviewing-the-evidence-2e5b8a12da26&quot;&gt;https://medium.com/@kconne/the-scientific-case-for-near-term-human-extinction-nthe-reviewing-the-evidence-2e5b8a12da26&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2024 06:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Ocean heat breaks all records</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/13955/ocean-heat-breaks-all-records</link>
<description>Is the ocean really hotter than ever before?</description>
<category>Climate Change</category>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 22:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Cleaning air pollution heats the planet</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/13934/cleaning-air-pollution-heats-the-planet</link>
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<category>Climate Change</category>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2024 04:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Iraq is among Arab states most vulnerable to water scarcity by 2050</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/13916/iraq-among-arab-states-most-vulnerable-water-scarcity-2050</link>
<description>Iraq has two major rivers and is on the ocean, will they really suffer a water shortage?</description>
<category>Climate Change</category>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 22:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Global Warming To Raise Food Prices, Inflation: Study</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/13862/global-warming-to-raise-food-prices-inflation-study</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>UN sounds “Red Alert” as world smashes heat records in 2023</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/13797/un-sounds-red-alert-as-world-smashes-heat-records-in-2023</link>
<description>I thought the earth goes through natural cycles of warming and cooling that change the climate and the weather.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 01:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Mossad called the American Air Force an enemy of Israel</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/13659/mossad-called-the-american-air-force-an-enemy-of-israel</link>
<description>Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency called the U.S. Air Force an “enemy” of Israel in a post on X after an active-duty member of the military branch set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C.</description>
<category>Climate Change</category>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2024 02:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Did the UN in 1989 predict that the entire nations would be wiped off the map becasue of gloabal warming.</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/13535/predict-entire-nations-would-wiped-becasue-gloabal-warming</link>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIyP0DxWwAAwq_B?format=jpg&amp;amp;name=small&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIyP0DxWwAAwq_B?format=jpg&amp;amp;name=small&quot; style=&quot;height:567px; width:680px&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Kim Kardashian accused of being an &quot;eco-terrorist&quot; according to an instagram account.</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/13499/kardashian-accused-terrorist-according-instagram-account</link>
<description>Despite the growing backlash against stars like Taylor Swift over their constant use of private jets in recent years, Kim, 43, appears to have made no efforts to minimize her usage in 2024.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Eugene, Ore. is the worst place for people with spring allergies?</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/13434/eugene-ore-the-worst-place-for-people-with-spring-allergies</link>
<description>Local news station KVAL reports that Eugene, Ore. is the &amp;quot;No. 1 worst US city for allergy sufferers,&amp;quot; but many national reports don&amp;#039;t even list it in the top ten.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2024 22:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Factcheck this: Coastal land is sinking, doubling the potential damage from rising seas</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/13397/factcheck-coastal-sinking-doubling-potential-damage-rising</link>
<description>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/12/coastal-land-is-sinking-doubling-the-potential-damage-of-rising-seas.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/12/coastal-land-is-sinking-doubling-the-potential-damage-of-rising-seas.html&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Factcheck this: Ski Resorts Face Snow Loss from Climate Change</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/13396/factcheck-this-ski-resorts-face-snow-loss-from-climate-change</link>
<description>From this story: &lt;a href=&quot;https://tailor.news/story/ski-resorts-face-snow-loss/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://tailor.news/story/ski-resorts-face-snow-loss/&lt;/a&gt;</description>
<category>Climate Change</category>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Factcheck this: A Solar Cycle peak is probable cause for more heat this summer</title>
<link>https://newsdetective.org/13395/factcheck-this-solar-cycle-peak-probable-cause-more-summer</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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