Fact check: Did 1200 climate experts sign declaration denying climate emergency?
a year ago
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- A document titled 'World Climate Declaration' claims there is 'no climate emergency' and has gone viral on social media.
- The document was supposedly signed by 1,200 scientists and academics, but investigations reveal few are climate scientists.
- Key figures behind the declaration have ties to the fossil fuel industry and have been accused of receiving funding from such companies.
- Less than 1% of the signatories are climatologists or climate scientists, with many having unrelated professions or links to oil and mining industries.
- A 2021 Cornell University report found 99.9% of over 88,000 climate studies agree humans accelerate climate change, contradicting the declaration's claims.
- NASA data shows the last 15 warmest years on record have occurred since 2005, with the most recent eight years being the warmest.