A nonprofit media company is setting the record straight on efforts to incorrectly deny that severe weather events have grown more destructive in recent years.
Crooked Ideas (@crooked.ideas) posted a video calling out Chris Wright, the current U.S. energy secretary and a former CEO of a fracking company. The video addressed Wright's false claims about the changing climate.
As average global temperatures have continued to rise, extreme weather events such as heat waves and hurricanes have grown more severe. The result has been increased devastation, leading to more deaths, destroyed homes, and higher insurance premiums.
Scientists such as those working for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have repeatedly shown that rising temperatures have mostly been the result of heat-trapping pollution released by human activities, specifically the burning of dirtier, nonrenewable fuels derived from oil, coal, and natural gas.
However, that has not stopped those with ties to the extracted-fuels industry from spreading false information.
The video first shows a clip of Wright incorrectly describing the findings of a key report from the IPCC. He falsely claimed that the IPCC hasn't said that weather is getting more extreme. Wright also stated that he believed the IPCC hadn't said in the report that the world is facing a climate emergency.
"Like none of that is true, and none of that is claimed in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report," Wright said in the ...
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