Category: Factcheck

Screenshot of a social media link to a Youtube discussion between Roger Hallam and Bill McGuire titled " The Insurance Industry Predicts Mass Death: How Do We Live A Good Life?"

Fact-Check: have actuaries predicted that billions will die beyond 2 degrees?

Some campaigners are claiming that UK actuaries (who measure risk for insurers) have predicted billions of deaths due to climate change beyond 2C of warming, partly due to tipping points & feedbacks. However, this is based of misreading a key table from a report, with the numbers actually being only hypothetical.

Fact-Check: is an Arctic “Methane Bomb” about to go off?

This is the fourth post in a new climatetippingoints.info series fact-checking claims that various climate tipping points have been crossed, … More

A raging wildfire consumes the forest next to Highway 63 twenty four kilometres south of Fort McMurray Saturday, May 7, 2016. The "Beast", as it was called by Wood Buffalo fire chief Darby Allen, is a 1500 square kilometre inferno that has prompted the mass evacuation of nearly 90,000 people from the northern Alberta city. (photograph by Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta)

Fact-Check: do tipping points commit us to rapid catastrophic warming?

This is the third post in a new climatetippingoints.info series fact-checking claims that various climate tipping points have been crossed, … More