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Leftist climate zealotry means never having to say you’re sorry

Nypost · · 614 words · By Cal Thomas
Anti-elitism Climate Change Skepticism Political polarization
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10 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Now comes a report by the once highly credible (to liberals) International Panel on Climate Change, a group backed by the United Nations”
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Wikipedia explicitly states that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations (UN).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Climate change adaptation is the process of adjusting to the effects of climate change, both current and anticipated. Adaptation aims to moderate or avoid harm for people, and is usually done alongsid…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_adaptation
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies. Changes to the climate system include an overall warming trend, changes to precipitation …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_climate_change
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations (UN). Its job is to "provide governments at all levels with scientific information that they can…
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“The IPCC has now concluded... that the extreme scenarios it once was guilty of selling us are now “implausible.””
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No evidence was provided in the search results to confirm or deny whether the IPCC has concluded that previous extreme scenarios are 'implausible'.
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“global investment in climate action has surpassed $1 trillion a year, according to tracking by the Climate Policy Initiative.”
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While the evidence mentions the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and general discussions about $1 trillion in climate finance, there is no specific evidence provided that confirms the claim that global investment has already surpassed $1 trillion a year according to CPI tracking.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The climate change policy of the United States has major impacts on global climate change and global climate change mitigation. This is because the United States is the second largest emitter of green…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) is an independent non-profit research group and international climate policy organization based in San Francisco, California with other offices worldwide. CPI is suppor…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Policy_Initiative
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also inclu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change
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“Recall the days 50 years ago when “science” was convinced... that the Earth was cooling so much that if we (meaning government) didn’t do something we would all freeze to death.”
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Wikipedia's entry on 'Global cooling' confirms it was a conjecture during the 1970s regarding the imminent cooling of the Earth.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. This is made possible by Earth being an ocean world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid su…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Earth's crust is its thick outer shell of rock, comprising less than one percent of the planet's radius and volume. It is the top component of the lithosphere, a solidified division of Earth's layers …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Flat Earth is an archaic and scientifically disproven conception of the Earth's shape as a plane or disk. Many ancient societies subscribed to a flat-Earth cosmography. The model has undergone a recen…
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“In 1975 Newsweek did a feature article titled “The Cooling World.””
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The evidence confirms Newsweek exists and that 'Global cooling' was a topic in the 1970s, but no specific evidence was provided confirming the existence of a 1975 article titled 'The Cooling World'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cool Britannia was a name for the period of increased pride in the culture of the United Kingdom in the mid-to-late 1990s, inspired by Swinging London from 1960s pop culture. This loosely coincided wi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Britannia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Global cooling was a conjecture, especially during the 1970s, of imminent cooling of the Earth culminating in a period of extensive glaciation, due to the cooling effects of aerosols or orbital forcin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The original World Trade Center (WTC) was a complex of seven buildings in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Built primarily between 1966 and 1975, it was dedicated on April 4…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_(1973–2001)
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“Electric cars were subsidized by the government.”
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web search NEUTRAL — Find government benefits, services, agencies, and information at USA.gov. Contact elected officials. Learn about passports, Social Security, taxes, and more.
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web search NEUTRAL — CA.gov is the official website for the State of California. You can find and access California services, resources, and more.
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web search NEUTRAL — Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. In many countries, the government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its gov…
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“California passed the Advanced Clean Car II standards requiring all new vehicles sold in the state be free of emissions starting in 2035.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that California's Advanced Clean Cars II (ACC II) standards require 100% of new vehicle sales to be zero-emission by 2035.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The California Air Resources Board (CARB or ARB) is an agency of the government of California that aims to reduce air pollution. Established in 1967 when then-governor Ronald Reagan signed the Mulford…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Air_Resources_Board
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The stock of plug-in electric vehicles in California is the largest in the United States, and as of December 2023, cumulative plug-in car registrations in the state since 2010 totaled 1.77 million uni…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A steam car is a car (automobile) propelled by a steam engine. A steam engine is an external combustion engine (ECE), whereas the gasoline and diesel engines that eventually became standard are intern…
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“Perhaps the most notorious of the IPCC predictions, as reported by The Post, was Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5, which “posited a hellish world of 12 billion people in the year 2100.”
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The evidence describes the IPCC and its data distribution, but does not provide the specific details of RCP 8.5's population projections (12 billion by 2100).
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web search NEUTRAL — They cover all the information relevant to the scientific understanding of climate change. This draws on scientific, technical, and socioeconomic information. IPCC reports must be neutral regarding po…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Cli…
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web search NEUTRAL — The IPCC Bureau meets regularly to provide guidance to the Panel on scientific and technical aspects of its work. The IPCC organizes scoping meetings of experts and meetings of lead authors to prepare…
https://www.ipcc.ch/
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web search NEUTRAL — Welcome to the Data Distribution Centre (DDC) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The DDC provides a transparent, traceable, stable and accessible archive for the climate, socio-e…
https://ipcc-data.org/
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“The projection assumed the world would be burning more coal than exists, without such likely technological improvements as emissions-free nuclear plants”
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No evidence was provided regarding the specific assumptions of RCP 8.5 concerning coal consumption or nuclear plants.
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“Cal Thomas is a veteran political commentator, columnist and author.”
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No evidence was provided to verify the professional background of Cal Thomas.
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