1/15》Is there a rule at @PBSNews.org / @PBS NewsHour against EVER telling the truth about ANY aspect of the #ClimateChange issue? It's not just that they get the science wrong. They also lie. Here's an example: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/breaking-down-the-republican-debate-and-where-the-candidates-stand-with-voters… by @Lisa Desjardins, @Matt Loffman, @Geoff Bennett & @Tess Conciatori

2/15》At 1:08 they reported, "He doubled down on climate denial, when asked about devastating wildfires & heatwaves that scientists agree are exacerbated by human activity." That's false. MANY scientists DON'T "agree" that climate change exacerbates fires https://co2coalition.org

3/15》Scientific organizations like the CO2 Coalition @CO2 Coalition, and many top scientists, dispute the climate industry propaganda blaming fires on manmade climate change. What a shame that @PBSNews.org / PBS @PBS NewsHour spread such misinformation. https://twitter.com/GWrightstone/status/1655634353387446276…

4/15》I don't support Ramaswamy, but he was right about the "climate crisis" scam — which PBS ceaselessly promotes. @PBSNews.org, please stop misinforming your viewers! There is no scientific basis for blaming fires on #climatechange. https://sealevel.info/learnmore.html?0=fires#fires…

5/15》Hey, @PBSNews.org team, do you understand graphs? Do you see that as CO2 levels have risen, total global burned area has decreased? https://sealevel.info/Global_burned_area_2001-2022_Lomborg_WSJ_2023-07-31.png… If carbon emissions were making fires worse, you'd expect this graph to show an upward trend, instead of downward.

6/15》Like the other climate industry FUD, about other imaginary harms from #ClimateChange, the claim that carbon emissions and consequent climate change exacerbate fires is false. In PBS's inflammatory language, it's science denial. https://co2coalition.org/2023/08/11/hawaiian-fires-fueled-by-invasive-grasses-a-wet-spring-and-human-ignition-sources/…

7/15》In fact, none of the supposed major harms from carbon emissions & consequent climate change are actually happening to any significant extent. Sea-level rise is supposedly the worst consequence. But sea-level trends have hardly changed in 90 years. https://sealevel.info/learnmore.html

8/15》The same is true for droughts and floods. https://sealevel.info/learnmore.html?0=droughts#droughts…

9/15》Hurricanes and tropical cyclones have actually decreased. Here's a paper about it" Lin & Chan (2015). Recent decrease in typhoon destructive potential and global warming implications. Nature Comm, doi:10.1038/ncomms8182. https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms8182… https://sealevel.info/learnmore.html?0=hurricanes#hurricanes…

10/15》Strong tornadoes have decreased even more. https://sealevel.info/learnmore.html?0=tornadoes#tornadoes…

11/15》The main effects of CO2 emissions and rising CO2 levels are a consequence of the two ways that elevated CO2 benefits plants. Rising CO2 levels are greening the Earth! https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth… https://sealevel.info/nasa_2016_carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth_excerpt1.png… https://twitter.com/ncdave4life/status/1673212447295979520…

12/15》Even more importantly, rising CO2 levels are improving crop yields, and making crops more drought resilient. Both of those benefits have contributed to ending large scale, drought-triggered famines, for the first time in human history. https://sealevel.info/learnmore.html?0=benefits#benefits…

13/15》Ending famine is a VERY Big Deal, comparable to ending war or disease. Compare: ● Covid-19 killed 0.1% of world population. ● 1918 flu pandemic killed about 2%. ● WWII killed 2.7%. ● The near-global drought & famine of 1876-78 killed about 3.7% of the world population

14/15》The scientific evidence is compelling that manmade warming is modest & benign, and CO2 emissions are highly beneficial. The benefits of more CO2 are large and well-measured, and the supposed major harms are merely hypothetical & mostly implausible. https://sealevel.info/negative_social_cost_of_carbon.html…

15/15》To understand a heavily politicized issue like climate change, you need balanced information — which PBS shamefully almost never provides. But I'm here to help! https://twitter.com/ncdave4life/status/1432810945017962505…