A July 31 Facebook post (direct link, archived link) features a collage of images showing natural disasters, Chicago’s skyline and Sydney Harbor’s Fort Denison.
“Only two problems with global warming,” reads text included in the image. “There’s no globe, there’s no warming.”
The post was shared more than 100 times in a week.
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Scientists have ample evidence the Earth is curved, including images of the planet taken from outer space. And long-term tide gauge data shows that sea levels have risen in Sydney Harbor over the past century and continue to rise. Climate researchers have unequivocal evidence that greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are driving a rise in global temperatures and sea levels.
The post purports that an image of the Chicago skyline taken 60 miles away across Lake Michigan proves the Earth is flat.
The image in the post matches a photograph captured by a semi-professional photographer in Grand Mere State Park, Michigan. The picture sparked similar claims back in 2015 after meteorologist Tom Coomes shared the image on air.
Usually, the bottoms of the skyscrapers are obscured by the curve of the Earth in photographs of the skyline taken at this distance, according to Coomes.
However, as Coomes reported back in 2016,...
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