Fact Checking Patrick Moore, Climate Skeptic
The ex-Greenpeacer claims his new book is science-based. It’s gaining traction. But when contacted, researchers he cites said he got their work wrong.
Sean Holman covered B.C. politics for 10 years and is now a journalism professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary. SHARES Moore wrongly claims that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change didn’t conclude the climate is changing faster than in the past. Actually, it did.
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Five years ago, the Great Barrier Reef was hit by its worst recorded bleaching to date, with media outlets around the world rushing to tell the public why that was putting the World Heritage site at risk.
Do you feel lucky? Chance likely played a major role in life persisting on Earth
A simulation of 100,000 Earthlike planets ended with very few remaining habitable for the billions of years we d expect it to take for life to evolve.
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Quirks and Quarks7:20Do you feel lucky? Chance likely played a major role in life persisting on Earth
A scientist who ran simulations of the evolution of 100,000 possible planets has concluded that the chance of any particular planet remaining habitable long enough for life to evolve intelligence are quite small.