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Kristina Dahl, principal climate scientist at UCS, breaks down the facts and exposes the twisted narratives and disinformation strategies used in a recent PragerU video approved for Florida schools.
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Alan C Scotch
Two of PragerU's largest donors are the hydraulic fracturing billionaires Dan and Farris Wilks. Two members of the Wilks family are on PragerU's board. The next-largest donor is the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Other donors include the Morgan Family Foundation, Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, Donors Trust, and the Minnesota-based Sid and Carol Verdoorn Foundation, led by former C.H. Robinson CEO Sid Verdoorn. https://factualnews.org/.../Republican_Propaganda_Mills.htm
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John Nudge
Alan C Scotch How much money have you put into Al Gore's bank account?

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Jones Murphy
John Nudge what is your level of education in math(esp stats) & science, compared with the overwhelming majority of scientists who agree that global warming is real? Is evolution real? How about Covid? Are you vaccinated for Covid? Is Obama a US citizen?

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Steven Kincaid
Jones Murphy What level of education is required to look at graphs prepared by scientists and understand them? You question others but provide no evidence at all to back your position. What's your position on 440 ppm of co2 in the atmosphere? Is it on the borderline of ending all life on earth? Do you know what co2 starvation is? What would earth be like if we had 3,000 ppm of co2 in the atmosphere? Does the climate model you're using to reinforce your stance go back more than 2,000 years? Do you know the scientific method for proving a deviation in cycles? I do. https://sciencefiles.org/.../2019/07/Historic-Co2-levels.png
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Jones Murphy
Steven Kincaid yeah I thought so, mediocre. Enjoy your Trump U. degree in Confederate science: https://slate.com/.../trump-university-ripped-off-people...
The People Donald Trump Allegedly Ripped Off Through Trump University Look a Lot Like Trump Voters
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The People Donald Trump Allegedly Ripped Off Through Trump University Look a Lot Like Trump Voters

The People Donald Trump Allegedly Ripped Off Through Trump University Look a Lot Like Trump Voters

 
 
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George Mason
Steven Kincaid At the annual peak in May of this year, the atmospheric CO2 level reached 424ppm. Life on earth can withstand CO2 levels exceeding 3,000 ppm. It also has been able to withstand the warming that comes with it. Just not in it's present forms. At least two past mass extinction events were caused by a massive release of CO2 from trap eruptions.
Plants can optimize growth with CO2 levels as low as 200ppm. The limiting factor in a plant's ability to sequester CO2 isn't the CO2 itself, it is the presence of Phosphorus in a usable form (Calvin Cycle). CO2 forcing in greenhouse only works if massive amounts of water and fertilizer are also used.
In terms of the graph you posted, GEOCARB III is quite an old model and is limited to inputs based on volcanic deposits and CaCO3 deposits over time. A Useful tool as a very rough estimate and still used.
Better for our current discussions are the ice core data going back 800,000 years, the timeframe for the explosion of Homo Sapiens across the planet. This May we exceeded the highest measured CO2 concentration in that timeframe (306ppm) by 118 ppm.
Instead of using GEOCARB III data, I recommend the reference below. It only goes back 50 million years, but since the first Hominid appeared on the planet 3.5 million years ago, it should suffice as a deep time reference for the world with humans in it. Interesting that the latest research indicates a drastic drop in CO2 at about the 3 million year BP timeframe.
A simple linear regression of the data from daily measurements since 1958 yields an atmospheric CO2 level of over 500 ppm by 2025.
CO2 re-radiates infrared energy at 15 microns.
CO2's lifespan in the atmosphere is at least 100 to 200 years.
A 40-million-year history of atmospheric CO2 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
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A 40-million-year history of atmospheric CO2 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

A 40-million-year history of atmospheric CO2 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

 
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George Mason
This site also has daily measurement data for CH4, N2O, and SF6:
Global Monitoring Laboratory - Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases
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John Nudge
Alan C Scotch Attacking the people at Prager U doesn't address the issue of climate change fraud.

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Alan C Scotch
John Nudge Scientific consensus: Climate is warming from man-made change.
I wish it weren't true but I'd be very silly not to believe 99% of scientists.
Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense
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Erica Byrne
Here are the most common myths and conspiracy theories about global warming, assembled and debunked in one place: https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php
Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics and what the science really says
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Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics and what the science really says

Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics and what the science really says

 

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Jon Dodge
Since the planet was first formed the climate has been changing. If it had not changed then no life as we know it would exist. The day the climate stops changing all life will cease to exist. What happens in the meantime? The lifeforms that adapt and evolve continue and the ones that don't simply fade away

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Doug Percival
Meanwhile the global warming deniers just keep regurgitating the same tired old lies, the same old ignorant nonsense, and the same old crackpot conspiracy theories that the fossil fuel industry has been spoon-feeding to weak-minded, gullible dupes for decades. They neither know nor care whether anything they post here is true. They only know that it is their DUTY as "conservatives" to repeat whatever the fake "right-wing" media tells them, like trained parrots.
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Christine Folk Hawk
Absolutely horrifying!!

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Doug Percival
Florida is now mandating that school children be forcibly indoctrinated with the fossil fuel industry's lies. Florida will soon be uninhabitable because much of the state will be under water for much of the year, much of its infrastructure will be irreperably destroyed by ultraviolent megastorms, and it will be too hot for human beings to live there, and too hot for agriculture. So it goes.
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Rand Barthel
Watch this PragerU video for the crude one-sided emotional manipulation it engages in. It's rank fossil fuel industry propaganda. I would love to know the funding sources behind this rubbish. And this is what DeSantis wants to make all school children sit through as captive audiences.

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Michael Thurston
The sad part is we can drastically reduce pollution with one simple law. We need an equality tax on all imports from places not meeting our EPA and labor standards. A large enough tax to make it cheaper to produce in country without mass pollution and child/slave labor.
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Lester Taylor
Why do some scientists get a stage to stand on while other scientists with opposite views get silenced? Who is to say which ones have the correct view , the ones with the largest voice or the ones with less backing? We can go back many years ago and find scientific facts and studies that were the holy grail but time has proven them wrong.

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Jack Linhart
Prageru is just right-wing propaganda!

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Jere Hook
So far in over 50 years the Liberal Climate Nuts have not had it correct yet. We did not die of CO2 poisoning, we did not have a new ice age in the 70s to 80s, we did not die in 10 years like predicted in the 80s, 90s, and 10 years ago, Florida is not… 
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Derosnec Niaga
-Propaganda headline should have read, "Watch a master propagandist lie to the world while pretending to be a 'Climate Scientist.'"
 
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Robert Billman
Strange how 97% of all scientists agree with those providing the funding! You see, I tried following the science but it just wasn't there. Then I started to follow the money and it was there I found the science! I f you remember correctly Al Gore began with this "global warming" back in the 60's & 70's. (Didn't work then? Won't work now!) In the 60's it was also your concern that the "oil reserves" will be depleted in 10 years, we're all gonna die. Then in the 70's it was another ice age within the next 10 years, We could all perish! Now, on to the 80's. At that time all the rage was acid rain will kill all the crops in another 10 years and thousands of humans and animals will die.............. never happened! That brings us to the 90's............ oh yeah, now the big scare is the Ozone layer will be destroyed in 10 years and we could all die...... again, never happened. Now in the early 2000's it was the disappearing ice caps, remember that one? Torch that one why don't you! That brings us back to square one, but the names have changed! It's no longer Global Warming, it's now Climate change! (Or as normal human beings would call it, the seasons, spring, summer, fall and winter! Now, none of these catastrophes actually occurred however, all resulted in more regulations and more taxes! If you're not old enough to remember these environmental scams of the past you're not old enough to understand how the game is played! P.S. I'M OLD ENOUGH!
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Bob Holly Jr.
Robert Billman Funny how only scientists paid by the fossil fuel industry disagree with the scientific consensus.
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Bob Holly Jr. Yeah and those pesky scientists who receive no gov't funding what-so-ever expressing their different points of view too huh? Now, if you have some sort of issue with those scientists taking what you express as nothing but taking kickbacks, maybe you could contact them and show them the errors of their ways!
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Bob Holly Jr.
Robert Billman You propose that there are 3 groups of scientists.
Those paid entirely by "the government"
Those in the employ of the fossil fuel industry
and... who is it that funds "those pesky scientists who receive no gov't funding what-so-ever"?
A question about those paid entire by "the government": which government?
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Michael Thurston
Who can you trust? As it is impossible to prove what a climate scientist thinks. So far they have struck out every single time at bat.
 
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Ivy Moser
These PragerU videos are the worst. Equating environmentalist to Nazis?!?!?

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Dennis Field
UCS needs a fact check...
 
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Avatar looking surprised, coming out from behind the word OMG written in red, with big eyes, mouth wide open, and holding their head with both hands
 
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Terry Hendrickson
"Climate Scientist"?🙄 You mean a weatherman? Yeah, they're so scientifically accurate.

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Bob Landon
Checking or changing the facts ?

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Christine Meleg
Bob Landon Facts are pieces of information, thoroughly tested and reviewed, once established they remain true. They can either be accepted or not. In this case the fact were never seen, just a load of bull sh-t handed out to appease the brainless governor.

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Andrew C. Smithson
Liberal climate scientist complete with agenda.

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Dan Lockerman
This is SOOOOOO Stupid , looking back at this is going to be fun for our Grandkids to laugh at !
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Lori Johnston-Arthur
We are the carbon they want to reduce. When you see the phrase "sustainable development" think depopulation and feudalism. That so-called bought-and-paid-for "climate scientist" is a propagandist for the globalists, and the "Climate Change/Global Warming Crisis" is a lie. It's all about money, power and control.
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Christine Meleg
Approved for Florida schools, nothing more needs to be said. Anything even remotely resembling the truth was wiped off before it was recorded.
 
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Todd Dunning
We all agree that the Left gets their science from Mother Jones
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Wade Clark
Todd Dunning There are no such things as "the left" or "we all agree". Your entire world view is a fabrication.
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Meneer Sjoerd
Wasted 10 minutes and watched this purported Doctorate Climate Terrorist 'fact check'. She simply refutes without facts... just a Climate Terrorist lying as they do so well.
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Jerry L. Head
Union of Concerned Scientist = liberal globalist propaganda

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Terry L. Brown
Desantis is going to “stupid” us right out of existence! He was Alfred E. Neuman last night in look and communications!
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Roger Rader
Let's not forget all the Climate Change alarmists that keep buying oceanfront property, lol

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Joe Creaney
Most of the green extremes see humanity as the basic problem. Until they declare war and go and attack China and India they do not truly care about this issue and do not believe it. They are the ones flying on private jets virtue signaling because of their depravity.

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Ed Matheson
The science / reality deniers sure enjoy attacking reality with their deafening "comments"!
 
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Holly Scott
lol! NOTHING NATURE ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON, IT'S ALL MAN MADE., FOOL
 
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Tommy Lucas
Propaganda post pushing fear for politics its all democrats know. America is tired of democrats lies and corruption.
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Peter Klein
Should change their name to Union of Fake Scientists.
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Erica Byrne
Every climate scientist in the world is wrong, and Trump is right? Got it.
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Ross Butcher
Who's climate scientist? It matters.
 
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Bert Sandlin
Ross Butcher - So true! Joe Biden is the only president in the 50 plus year history of the EPA to FIRE the entire EPA Science Advisory Board and replace them with his ECO-SCAMMERS. YES Joe fired all 42 members of the EPA SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD that is every member and replaced them with his climate cronies. Next time you comment on the tainted science mention this. JOE BIDEN CRAPPED ON THE SCIENCE in addition the he INCREASED CO2 EMISSIONS in the USA and in the World.
Per the attached Tuesday, May 25, 2021 article from the Washington Times
“the Biden administration decided to terminate all 42 members of the EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB ). For the first time in SAB’s 42-year history, a new EPA administrator will receive scientific advice only from scientists that they personally appoint. It is a clear political move that truly is unprecedented.” So in less than 5 Months in office Biden fired all 42 members of the EPA Science Advisory Board and replaced all of them with his climate cronies. See attached below
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Steven Stevens
If ignorance is bliss, they are promoting a state of ecstasy

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Rocky Johnson
I love it when they say the forest fires are a direct climate change event. Yet ask the fire investigators and they say 75% are purposeful arson. Then there are web sites that track wild fires that go back 30 years. Guess what? 2023 is average. Also look at the weather news - they use 5 times the amount of red just from 2 years ago. When the temperatures shown are lower than two years ago, but are in red zones now, this is alarmist BS. I'm not a climate denier, but I will point out alarmists using every dishonest tools they think they can get away with before getting busted again when global warming numbers were fudged and they were caught. The US carbon footprint has fallen and I think we are doing well. China is far ahead on the polluting scale. They make up half of the entire world's carbon. No single country should be allowed to be so reckless. The US is going in the right direction, but watch out for alarmists that attack and lie too. We all saw the "Hottest Day in 120,000 Years report last week or so ago. Total BS - we have no data to draw from to make such a stupid statement. PragerU is typically level headed and that rubs the lefties the wrong way because when shown truth, they start name calling instead of proving the case. Hint when you demand to change words & meanings you lose the culture discussion. I won't call a he a her or them. When you try to pass laws mandating that, you have laws mandating slavery thought and not free thought. If we allow you to start a discussion where a he is a her and by law a fact, then we all lose the common sense discussion on anything.
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Bob Smith
Never could've imagined Mother Jones would be in the establishment (statist) camp..... lol
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Louis Iudiciani
Did anybody fact check her?
 
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Butch Gilliam
Plant more trees 🌳🌲. And food for starving people.
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Chris Gudger
The climate crisis is a complete hoax

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Neal Dirk
Anyone who claims we have a climate crisis is a moron or a Communist Radical Lefty who's only passion in life is to see America destroyed from within. The damage done to our children by lying about a phony climate crisis has caused millions of young people to become sad and depressed to the point that they don't want to marry or have children or live and the only thing that keeps them alive is therapy and anxiety/depression medication. Remember what Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union Communist leader, said in the early 1960s about burying America from within without firing a shot. Open your eyes America before it's too late.
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200 years ago---"settled science" held that the best treatment for most diseases was Desanguination--and you dont know what that is OH NO have to read
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Timothy Terzin
Weird how the enemy of the free world benefits from the actions of Climate Science.

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Timothy Terzin Anyone who twists reality shows their true mentality, psychotic.

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Tim Banis
“Climate scientist”. Haha. That’s a good one.

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Terry Gladden Sr.
Unicorn Hunters on steroids !!
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Barry Shildneck
Who's fact-checking the fact-checkers? I didn't look at the video, simply because there have been far too many cases where (other) "fact-checkers" have been proven wrong. It could be that this one of the exceptions, but I refuse to be "bullied" into believing every supposed "expert", when I've seen so many instances to the contrary. 🙁

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Tony Wright
Since the climate alarmists are the chciken littles with fraudulent predictions. I suggest the SUN is the cause of all global warming and CO2 is an NPC. It happens to be the building block of all life which if you are anti population you would deprive the atmosphere of it, which you policies would do.

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Rod Pile
Tony Wright Thank god we have FB scientists like you who know more than the world class researchers and scienitsts at NASA.smh https://climate.nasa.gov/global-warming-vs-climate-change/
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Bob Holly Jr.
Tony Wright if the sun is the cause of global warming, wouldn't that mean that Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, should be hotter than Venus, the second closest planet to the sun, right?
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