Climate Crisis
Environmentalists claim that we are facing a ‘climate crisis’ or ‘climate emergency’, which is leading to a catastrophic breakdown of society. In this category, we… Read More »Climate Crisis
Climate crisis
Agriculture and Food
The argument for radical climate policies is often based on the claim that climate change is having an impact on the world’s capacity to support… Read More »Agriculture and Food
Conflict
Similar to their claims about poverty, many climate policy advocates argue that conflict is driven by climate change. But again, the data pertaining to this hypothesis does… Read More »Conflict
Infectious Diseases
It has long been assumed that higher temperatures cause a rise in the incidence of infectious disease. For example, some arguments claim that global warming… Read More »Infectious Diseases
Environmental migration
In 2005, the United Nations claimed that by 2010 there would be 50 million ‘climate refugees’. This claim has been a mainstay of the argument for… Read More »Environmental migration
Poverty
Green campaigners have argued climate change is already making people poorer and will increase rates of poverty. They argue similarly that solving the problem of… Read More »Poverty
Property Damage
Claims that storms damage property and civil infrastructure, largely driven by dramatic news coverage of extreme weather events, have created the misunderstanding that these events… Read More »Property Damage