Climate Change Myths

Lies spread by country leaders result in deaths.

Better be safe than sorry.

COVID is still with us even though numbers in some places are falling.

Short discussion on the vaccines

Not this year

Herd immunity

Testing gives inrlcreases

Hydroxychloroquine is an effective treatment

Wealthy elites are using the virus to profit from a vaccine.

This one talks about using Ivermectin to treat COVID-19. Check FLCCC. HTTPS:/covid19criticalcare.com

Mask wearing is effective in this pandemic. Wear one!

No worse than the flu?

There are a number of persistent myths surrounding COVID-19. This is the first.

A bit of the psychology of climate change denial. Link to full interview of Lewandowsky: https://youtu.be/7FQUsCyLzlE. Article: Lewandowsky, S., Pilditch, T. D., Madsen, J. K., Oreskes, N., & Risbey, J. S. (2019). Influence and seepage: An evidence-resistant minority can affect public opinion and scientific belief formation. Cognition, 188, 124–139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.01.011

World continues to do little about climate change.

https://www.csldf.org/2019/10/17/heres-how-science-has-suffered-during-the-first-1000-days-of-trump/ I describe a blog post from the Climate Legal Defense Fund blog dated October 17, 2019 "Here’s How Science Has Suffered During the First 1,000 Days of Trump" Check it out.

From the Washington Post Oct. 3, 2019

“Satellites measure Antarctica is gaining sea ice but losing land ice at an accelerating rate which has implications for sea level rise.” WWW.skepticalscience.com

“Every part of the Earth's climate system has continued warming since 1998, with 2015 shattering temperature records.” https://skepticalscience.com/global-warming-stopped-in-1998.htm

Another myth perpetrated by the contrarians. Animals and plants cannot change as fast as the climate is changing. Check www.skepticalscience.com.