{ "schema_version": "1.1", "series": "Propaganda Buster", "publisher": "Affect Climate Change", "section": { "title": "Propaganda Buster", "subtitle": "Debunking bogus climate claims in the media with peer-reviewed science and primary sources.", "canonical_path": "/buster/", "methodology_path": "/buster/methodology/", "short_path": "/buster/", "description": "A permanent, source-first ACC fact-checking archive. The website holds the detailed record; social posts are concise invitations to examine it." }, "issue_id": "003", "issue_title": "When the comparison changes the story", "issue_summary": "This edition checks a heat-mortality estimate dismissed with the wrong metric, a false claim that building wind and solar creates more carbon pollution than the technologies prevent, a categorical warming-acceleration headline that omits the adjusted result, and a 2012 IPCC assessment presented as current.", "cover": { "presentation_mode": "social-slide", "public_asset_included": true, "title": "When the comparison changes the story", "description": "ACC-authored Issue 003 cover dated August 11, 2026, introducing four climate claims and directing readers to four paired evidence checks.", "rights_note": "The cover is ACC-authored. Claim slides contain limited excerpt crops approved for this ACC fact-check edition; full captures, access dates, and hashes remain in the private provenance package." }, "status": "published", "robots": "index,follow,max-image-preview:large,max-snippet:-1", "planned_publication_on": "2026-08-11", "schedule_note": "Owner-approved public-mode local deployment candidate for Tuesday, August 11, 2026, after the Monday news lane. This build does not itself deploy the website or post to social media.", "editorial_rule": "The website record is authoritative. Social assets are concise derivatives that link back to the canonical issue or claim record.", "reviewed_on": "2026-08-11", "updated_on": "2026-08-11", "published_on": "2026-08-11", "corrected_on": null, "issue_path": "/buster/003/", "short_issue_path": "/buster/003", "source_ledger_path": "/assets/data/propaganda-buster/source-ledger-003.csv", "social_cta": "Full evidence: www.affectclimatechange.com/buster/003", "publication_gate": { "source_review": "approved", "image_rights_review": "approved", "calculation_review": "approved", "editorial_approval": "approved", "publish_allowed": true, "approved_on": "2026-08-11", "release_scope": "Public website evidence record plus the approved ACC-authored R7 established-palette unique-art ten-slide social edition.", "note": "Owner-authorized public-mode local candidate using the approved ACC navy, orange, cyan, and lime R7 art direction after source, quantitative-copy, attribution-boundary, limited-use, accessibility, and independent editorial review. This metadata does not state that an external social post or website deployment has occurred." }, "social_release": { "status": "published", "production_date": "2026-08-11", "claim_ids": [ "PB-003-01", "PB-003-02", "PB-003-03", "PB-003-04" ], "slides": [ { "number": 1, "role": "Cover and issue definition", "file": "slide-01.png", "alt": "Propaganda Buster Issue 003 cover, dated August 11, 2026. ACC introduces four evidence checks involving heatwave deaths, renewable-energy emissions, warming acceleration, and IPCC findings about extreme weather." }, { "number": 2, "role": "Claim 1 specimen", "claim_id": "PB-003-01", "file": "slide-02.png", "alt": "Original public blog claim dated August 8, 2026, saying a heatwave death estimate was fake. The slide directs readers to the evidence on slide 3." }, { "number": 3, "role": "Claim 1 evidence", "claim_id": "PB-003-01", "file": "slide-03.png", "alt": "Evidence answering slide 2. Weekly death registrations are not the same as deaths occurring during short heatwaves. Imperial estimated 553 May deaths and 2,183 June deaths, with uncertainty. Verdict: misleading." }, { "number": 4, "role": "Claim 2 specimen", "claim_id": "PB-003-02", "file": "slide-04.png", "alt": "Original public blog claim dated September 17, 2018, saying manufacturing and installing wind and solar creates more carbon dioxide than the technologies save. The evidence follows on slide 5." }, { "number": 5, "role": "Claim 2 evidence", "claim_id": "PB-003-02", "file": "slide-05.png", "alt": "Evidence answering slide 4. Construction causes emissions, but wind and solar then generate power without burning fuel. UNECE's outer values illustrate roughly 80–99% lower lifecycle greenhouse-gas emissions per kilowatt-hour than gas or coal; results vary by technology and scenario. Verdict: false." }, { "number": 6, "role": "Claim 3 specimen", "claim_id": "PB-003-03", "file": "slide-06.png", "alt": "Original public blog claim dated August 7, 2026, saying data show no “sharp acceleration” in warming. The slide directs readers to the evidence on slide 7." }, { "number": 7, "role": "Claim 3 evidence", "claim_id": "PB-003-03", "file": "slide-07.png", "alt": "Evidence answering slide 6. One 2026 peer-reviewed method found statistically significant acceleration after accounting for El Niño, volcanic, and solar effects. The unadjusted series did not cross the same significance threshold, so “no sharp acceleration” is too categorical. Verdict: misleading." }, { "number": 8, "role": "Claim 4 specimen", "claim_id": "PB-003-04", "file": "slide-08.png", "alt": "Original public blog claim dated August 6, 2026, saying an IPCC assessment found only weak links between climate change and extreme weather. The evidence follows on slide 9." }, { "number": 9, "role": "Claim 4 evidence", "claim_id": "PB-003-04", "file": "slide-09.png", "alt": "Evidence answering slide 8. The claim relies on a 2012 IPCC report, while newer assessments find stronger evidence for several extremes. Confidence still differs by hazard and region. Verdict: misleading." }, { "number": 10, "role": "Sources and website invitation", "file": "slide-10.png", "alt": "Closing slide inviting readers to examine the complete evidence and context at affectclimatechange.com/buster. It summarizes the four verdicts and notes that sources and corrections are documented." } ] }, "publication_blockers": [], "methodology": { "verdicts": [ "False", "Misleading", "Unsupported", "Missing context", "Unverifiable" ], "minimum_evidence": "At least two directly relevant reputable sources, normally including a primary dataset, government scientific assessment, or peer-reviewed research.", "attribution_boundary": "ACC evaluates the claim. It does not infer intent, coordination, funding, deception, or control without direct evidence specific to that attribution.", "corrections_policy": "Material corrections are dated, explained, and retained in the revision history." }, "claims": [ { "claim_id": "PB-003-01", "slug": "heat-mortality-registration", "canonical_path": "/buster/003/heat-mortality-registration/", "short_path": "/buster/003/heat-mortality-registration", "claim_as_circulated": "A flat cumulative death-registration total shows the 2026 heatwave-death estimate was fake.", "full_post_context": "The public article titled ‘Met Office Heatwave Death Claim Was Fake News’ compares broad cumulative weekly registrations with a rapid estimate for deaths during two specific hot periods and concludes: ‘The claim was fake.’", "scope_note": "This verdict evaluates whether cumulative registrations disprove the time-localized mortality estimate. It does not evaluate or infer the author's motive, funding, or intent.", "verdict": "MISLEADING — WRONG METRIC", "verdict_summary": "Cumulative registration totals do not test deaths during two short heatwaves. The 2,736 total is a rapid modelled estimate with uncertainty, not a final death-certificate count, but the registration comparison does not show it was fabricated.", "topics": [ "Heat mortality", "Death registration", "Statistical methods", "United Kingdom" ], "why_wrong": "The comparison substitutes a broad registration total for deaths occurring during defined heat episodes. Registrations can occur days or weeks after death and include deaths from many dates, so a flat cumulative period can conceal a short-lived mortality increase and cannot directly falsify the modelled estimate.", "what_is_true": "The estimate is provisional and model-based rather than a final official count. It assumes a historical relationship between temperature and mortality, reports uncertainty ranges, and may not fully capture changes in vulnerability or adaptation. Those limitations should be stated without treating a different metric as a disproof.", "how_scientists_know": "Researchers compare mortality during specified heat periods with an expected non-heat baseline, report uncertainty, and distinguish occurrence dates from later registration dates. The full Imperial report, UKHSA methodology, and ONS registration guidance make those definitions and limits explicit.", "limitations": "The rapid report estimates 553 deaths for May 21–29 and 2,183 for June 18–28, with 95% empirical confidence intervals. Final validated figures are expected in 2027, and there is no single definitive measure of heat mortality.", "persuasion_technique": "Wrong metric and context collapse: cumulative registrations are used to reject a time-localized modelled estimate.", "evidence_points": [ "The scientific report estimates 553 deaths during May 21–29, with a 95% empirical confidence interval of 426–704.", "It estimates 2,183 deaths during June 18–28, with a 95% empirical confidence interval of 1,582–2,724.", "ONS explains that occurrence date and registration week are different measures and that registration delays matter for time-specific surveillance." ], "source_specimen": { "specimen_mode": "attributed-quote", "attributed_quote": "Met Office Heatwave Death Claim Was Fake News.", "platform": "Public blog", "account": "Watts Up With That? / Paul Homewood", "published": "2026-08-08", "original_url": "https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/08/08/met-office-heatwave-death-claim-was-fake-news/", "circulation_note": "Public article inspected and captured on August 9, 2026. The complete native capture is preserved privately by hash; the social preview uses a crop that removes unrelated page furniture.", "public_asset_included": false, "presentation_description": "Recreated attributed-text treatment preserving the tested conclusion, publisher, author credit, date, and direct article URL.", "rights_status": "approved", "reuse_status": "Final limited-use review approved the recreated attributed-text treatment and the limited excerpt crop embedded in ACC's ten-slide edition; the complete native capture remains private research material.", "private_capture": { "capture_file_name": "PB-003-01_WUWT_2026-08-08_NATIVE_TOP.png", "captured_on": "2026-08-09", "sha256": "6BCA7A30FBE7578259DAF6C4E921B1589DE4E22A23DA562E1609A02C1A3A0F17", "distribution": "private-research-only" } }, "science_sources": [ { "type": "scientific report", "title": "Climate change increases heat-health risks in England and Wales: May and June 2026", "publisher": "Imperial College London, Grantham Institute, Met Office, and LSHTM", "published": "2026-07-13", "url": "https://doi.org/10.25560/131199", "finding": "Reports 553 estimated deaths for May 21–29 and 2,183 for June 18–28, with 95% empirical confidence intervals and explicit model limitations.", "accessed": "2026-08-09" }, { "type": "government official-statistics methodology", "title": "Quality and methodology information: Heat mortality monitoring reports", "publisher": "UK Health Security Agency", "published": "2026-04-02", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/heat-mortality-monitoring-report-england-quality-and-methodology-information/quality-and-methodology-information-heat-mortality-monitoring-reports", "finding": "Explains comparison of deaths during heat episodes with nearby non-heat baselines and the reporting of uncertainty.", "accessed": "2026-08-09" }, { "type": "government official-statistics methodology", "title": "Predicting total weekly death occurrences in England and Wales methodology", "publisher": "Office for National Statistics", "published": "2020-05-29", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/methodologies/predictingtotalweeklydeathoccurrencesinenglandandwalesmethodology", "finding": "Explains why registration counts differ from occurrence dates and why occurrence data are more useful for rare time-specific events.", "accessed": "2026-08-09" } ] }, { "claim_id": "PB-003-02", "slug": "wind-solar-lifecycle-emissions", "canonical_path": "/buster/003/wind-solar-lifecycle-emissions/", "short_path": "/buster/003/wind-solar-lifecycle-emissions", "claim_as_circulated": "Manufacturing and installing wind and solar produces more CO2 than the technologies save during their service lives.", "full_post_context": "A September 17, 2018 public blog essay lists this as a conclusion about wind and solar photovoltaic systems. ACC evaluates that absolute lifecycle-emissions statement, not every cost, reliability, siting, or materials claim made on the page.", "scope_note": "The verdict addresses the absolute lifecycle greenhouse-gas claim. It does not imply that wind and solar have no construction emissions or no material, siting, grid-integration, or end-of-life impacts.", "verdict": "FALSE — LIFECYCLE EMISSIONS ARE FAR LOWER", "verdict_summary": "Building turbines and panels creates emissions. But wind and solar then generate electricity without burning fuel, while coal and gas keep emitting whenever fuel is burned. Lifecycle studies count construction and still find much lower emissions per kilowatt-hour.", "topics": [ "Wind power", "Solar power", "Lifecycle assessment", "Carbon payback", "Electricity generation" ], "why_wrong": "The claim treats upfront construction emissions as though they exceed decades of avoided fuel combustion. Cradle-to-grave assessments include raw materials, manufacturing, transport, construction, maintenance, and end-of-life and still place wind and solar far below fossil generation per unit of electricity.", "what_is_true": "Mining, manufacturing, transport, construction, maintenance, and retirement do create emissions. Results vary with technology, location, capacity factor, manufacturing energy, lifetime, recycling, study boundaries, and the grid electricity displaced. Those real differences do not support the absolute claim evaluated here.", "how_scientists_know": "Lifecycle assessment adds emissions across the full system and divides them by lifetime electricity generation. Independent intergovernmental, national-laboratory, peer-reviewed, and IPCC sources reach the same broad comparison even though their exact ranges differ.", "limitations": "The approximately 80–99% lower reader-facing range is an illustrative envelope calculated from the outer UNECE lifecycle endpoints: 1 − (83/403) = 79.4% and 1 − (7.8/1,095) = 99.3%. It is not one universal estimate for every project or grid.", "persuasion_technique": "Boundary distortion: upfront construction emissions are treated as if they outweigh decades of avoided fuel combustion even though lifecycle studies explicitly count both.", "evidence_points": [ "UNECE reports lifecycle emissions of 7.8–23 g CO2e/kWh for wind and 8–83 for solar PV, compared with 403–513 for natural gas combined cycle and 751–1,095 for coal.", "NREL's 2024 cradle-to-grave U.S. utility-scale solar assessment reports 10–36 g CO2e/kWh and a benchmark carbon payback time of 2.1 years.", "An NREL-led systematic wind review reports a harmonized range of 3–45 g CO2e/kWh and a median of 11.", "The 80–99% comparison shown in the social evidence slide is derived from UNECE's outer endpoints and is explicitly illustrative, not universal." ], "source_specimen": { "specimen_mode": "attributed-quote", "attributed_quote": "Manufacture and installation will emit more CO2 than they may save during their service life.", "platform": "Public blog", "account": "Watts Up With That? / guest essay by Ed Hoskins", "published": "2018-09-17", "original_url": "https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/09/17/the-costs-and-fallibility-of-uk-weather-dependent-renewables-2017-2018/", "circulation_note": "The direct public article and exact claim were inspected on August 10, 2026. A full native viewport and limited claim crop are preserved privately with hashes.", "public_asset_included": false, "presentation_description": "Recreated attributed-text treatment preserving the assessed conclusion, publisher context, guest-essay credit, publication date, access date, and direct article URL.", "rights_status": "approved", "reuse_status": "Final limited-use review approved the recreated attributed-text treatment and the limited excerpt crop embedded in ACC's ten-slide edition; the complete native capture remains private research material.", "private_capture": { "capture_file_name": "PB-003-02_WUWT_2018-09-17_NATIVE_CLAIM_FULL.png", "captured_on": "2026-08-10", "sha256": "AE4AFD5850B1CE1E4FC9412DFF43A4FA322A983331C01384EC117D49F20251A7", "distribution": "private-research-only" } }, "science_sources": [ { "type": "intergovernmental technical report", "title": "Life Cycle Assessment of Electricity Generation Options", "publisher": "United Nations Economic Commission for Europe", "published": "2022-03", "url": "https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2022-04/LCA_3_FINAL%20March%202022.pdf", "finding": "Counts infrastructure and supply chains and reports wind and solar lifecycle ranges far below natural gas and coal per kilowatt-hour.", "accessed": "2026-08-10" }, { "type": "national laboratory report", "title": "An Updated Life Cycle Assessment of Utility-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Systems Installed in the United States", "publisher": "National Renewable Energy Laboratory", "published": "2024-03", "url": "https://www.osti.gov/biblio/2331420", "finding": "Reports cradle-to-grave U.S. utility-scale solar PV emissions of 10–36 g CO2e/kWh and a benchmark carbon payback time of 2.1 years.", "accessed": "2026-08-10" }, { "type": "peer-reviewed systematic review", "title": "Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Utility-Scale Wind Power: Systematic Review and Harmonization", "publisher": "Journal of Industrial Ecology / National Renewable Energy Laboratory", "published": "2012-04", "url": "https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1040937", "finding": "Reports harmonized wind lifecycle estimates of 3–45 g CO2e/kWh with a median of 11.", "accessed": "2026-08-10" }, { "type": "international scientific assessment", "title": "AR6 Working Group III Chapter 6: Energy Systems", "publisher": "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change", "published": "2022", "url": "https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/chapter/chapter-6/", "finding": "Assesses solar photovoltaic lifecycle emissions as far below fossil generation while explaining variation in manufacturing energy and displaced electricity.", "accessed": "2026-08-10" } ] }, { "claim_id": "PB-003-03", "slug": "warming-acceleration", "canonical_path": "/buster/003/warming-acceleration/", "short_path": "/buster/003/warming-acceleration", "claim_as_circulated": "Data show no ‘sharp acceleration’ in warming.", "full_post_context": "The public article's categorical headline says data show no sharp acceleration. Its body acknowledges the study's adjusted result of roughly 0.35°C per decade and greater-than-98-percent finding, while arguing that the raw series and adjustment method do not justify ScienceDaily's wording.", "scope_note": "This verdict preserves the article's legitimate method caveat. It evaluates whether the categorical headline fairly represents the full evidence, not whether every statistical method produces the same rate.", "verdict": "MISLEADING — METHOD OMITTED", "verdict_summary": "The adjusted analysis finds acceleration above 98% confidence after accounting for natural influences. The unadjusted series is noisier and does not reach the same threshold—a real caveat—but the categorical headline omits the published adjusted result.", "topics": [ "Global temperature", "Warming rate", "Natural variability", "Statistical methods" ], "why_wrong": "The headline treats a real method caveat as proof of the opposite result. The unadjusted series does not cross the same statistical threshold, but the adjusted five-dataset analysis does find acceleration, so the categorical claim that data show no ‘sharp acceleration’ does not fairly represent the complete finding.", "what_is_true": "Acceleration detection is sensitive to the selected interval, datasets, and treatment of natural variability. The word ‘sharp’ is subjective, the raw record is noisy, and no single paper fixes an exact future rate. Those caveats narrow the conclusion but do not erase the affirmative adjusted finding.", "how_scientists_know": "Researchers compare multiple global-temperature datasets, quantify El Niño, volcanic, and solar influences, test trend changes statistically, and report confidence. Independent annual indicators distinguish observed and human-induced rates and provide a second line of evidence about recent warming.", "limitations": "The acceleration result depends on the paper's adjustment method and interval. ACC does not claim every method detects an identical change or that short-term rates can be extrapolated unchanged into the future.", "persuasion_technique": "Certainty reversal and omitted method: a real methodological caveat is presented as though the data categorically demonstrate the opposite of the published adjusted result.", "evidence_points": [ "Foster and Rahmstorf find statistically significant acceleration above 98% confidence after accounting for El Niño, volcanoes, and solar variation.", "The study reports faster warming over the most recent ten-plus years than in any previous decade, while the raw series remains noisier.", "Forster and colleagues report human-induced warming of 0.27°C per decade for 2016–2025 and observed warming of 0.30°C per decade over the same period." ], "source_specimen": { "specimen_mode": "attributed-quote", "attributed_quote": "Data Show No ‘Sharp Acceleration’ in Warming.", "platform": "Public blog", "account": "Watts Up With That? / Anthony Watts", "published": "2026-08-07", "original_url": "https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/08/07/no-sciencedaily-data-show-no-sharp-acceleration-in-warming/", "circulation_note": "The full public article body and native page were inspected on August 9, 2026. The article's methodological caveat is retained in ACC's verdict.", "public_asset_included": false, "presentation_description": "Recreated attributed-text treatment preserving the categorical headline, publisher, author, date, and direct article URL.", "rights_status": "approved", "reuse_status": "Final limited-use review approved the recreated attributed-text treatment and the limited excerpt crop embedded in ACC's ten-slide edition; the complete native capture remains private research material.", "private_capture": { "capture_file_name": "PB-003-03_WUWT_2026-08-07_NATIVE_TOP.png", "captured_on": "2026-08-09", "sha256": "B6D74706819B2258FEBA5D7F9A648D41A2C5A3E483B8E149E1EDCD5FBB7623B1", "distribution": "private-research-only" } }, "science_sources": [ { "type": "peer-reviewed research", "title": "Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly", "publisher": "Geophysical Research Letters", "published": "2026-03-06", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL118804", "finding": "Finds warming acceleration above 98% confidence after adjusting five global-temperature datasets for major natural-variability factors.", "accessed": "2026-08-09" }, { "type": "peer-reviewed assessment update", "title": "Indicators of Global Climate Change 2025", "publisher": "Earth System Science Data", "published": "2026-06-11", "url": "https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3889-2026", "finding": "Reports human-induced warming of 0.27°C per decade and observed warming of 0.30°C per decade for 2016–2025, with stated uncertainty and variability caveats.", "accessed": "2026-08-09" }, { "type": "international scientific data synthesis", "title": "WMO confirms 2025 was one of warmest years on record", "publisher": "World Meteorological Organization", "published": "2026-01-14", "url": "https://wmo.int/media/news/wmo-confirms-2025-was-one-of-warmest-years-record", "finding": "Synthesizes eight datasets and reports that 2023–2025 were the three warmest years and 2015–2025 the eleven warmest.", "accessed": "2026-08-09" } ] }, { "claim_id": "PB-003-04", "slug": "outdated-ipcc-extremes", "canonical_path": "/buster/003/outdated-ipcc-extremes/", "short_path": "/buster/003/outdated-ipcc-extremes", "claim_as_circulated": "An IPCC assessment found only weak links between human-caused climate change and droughts, wildfires, floods, and hurricanes.", "full_post_context": "The public article links to the IPCC's 2012 SREX special report and presents its older assessment language as a description of the current evidence base without identifying the source date in the claim passage.", "scope_note": "This verdict does not claim that climate change causes every disaster or that confidence is identical across hazards and regions. It evaluates the omission of the assessment date and later evidence updates.", "verdict": "MISLEADING — OUTDATED ASSESSMENT", "verdict_summary": "The linked source is the IPCC's 2012 SREX report, not the current assessment. IPCC AR6 says observed and attributed evidence strengthened for several extremes, although confidence still differs by hazard and region.", "topics": [ "IPCC", "Extreme events", "Assessment dates", "Attribution" ], "why_wrong": "The article uses legitimate historical evidence as though it were the current record. The 2021 IPCC assessment incorporates additional observations and research and reports stronger evidence for several extreme-event categories, so an undated 2012 summary creates a materially outdated impression.", "what_is_true": "The 2012 SREX report remains valid historical evidence, and uncertainty is still substantial for some hazards and regions. Exposure, vulnerability, land management, and natural variability also shape disaster losses. Newer evidence strengthens some conclusions without making every event attributable.", "how_scientists_know": "Major assessments synthesize many studies, observations, and attribution methods, grade confidence hazard by hazard, and update conclusions as the evidence grows. Comparing SREX with AR6 and the Fifth National Climate Assessment shows both the strengthened findings and the remaining limits.", "limitations": "Global river-flood evidence remains less uniform than evidence for extreme heat or heavy precipitation, and regional drought and tropical-cyclone findings require careful scope. ACC does not generalize every U.S. indicator globally.", "persuasion_technique": "Outdated authority and context collapse: an older assessment is presented without the later evidence update.", "evidence_points": [ "The source linked by the article is the IPCC's 2012 SREX report and should be identified by date.", "IPCC AR6 reports that observed and attributed evidence strengthened for several extremes, including heavy precipitation, some droughts, tropical-cyclone metrics, and compound fire weather.", "The 2023 Fifth National Climate Assessment adds U.S. indicators and risk evidence while preserving hazard-specific confidence and scope.", "The AR6 Working Group I Summary for Policymakers states that human influence is already affecting many weather and climate extremes and that evidence and attribution have strengthened since AR5, while confidence still varies by hazard and region." ], "source_specimen": { "specimen_mode": "attributed-quote", "attributed_quote": "An IPCC assessment found only weak links between human-induced climate change and droughts, wildfires, floods and hurricanes.", "platform": "Public blog reproducing a Daily Sceptic article", "account": "Watts Up With That? / Ramesh Thakur", "published": "2026-08-06", "original_url": "https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/08/06/climate-scepticism-in-six-charts/", "circulation_note": "The public article, claim excerpt, and linked 2012 SREX source were inspected on August 9, 2026. Both the top-page and excerpt captures are preserved privately by hash.", "public_asset_included": false, "presentation_description": "Recreated attributed-text treatment preserving the assessed passage, publisher context, author, date, and direct article URL.", "rights_status": "approved", "reuse_status": "Final limited-use review approved the recreated attributed-text treatment and the limited excerpt crop embedded in ACC's ten-slide edition; the complete native capture remains private research material.", "private_capture": { "capture_file_name": "PB-003-04_WUWT_2026-08-06_NATIVE_EXCERPT.png", "captured_on": "2026-08-09", "sha256": "844164411565603B7171E2AECB20A07C3197C176652BBF24D1F9A3D0ABDC4A3F", "distribution": "private-research-only" } }, "science_sources": [ { "type": "international scientific assessment", "title": "Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation", "publisher": "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change", "published": "2012", "url": "https://archive.ipcc.ch/report/srex/", "finding": "Confirms that the assessment linked by the article is the 2012 SREX report and documents the evidence and confidence available at that time.", "accessed": "2026-08-09" }, { "type": "international scientific assessment", "title": "AR6 Working Group I Chapter 11: Weather and Climate Extreme Events in a Changing Climate", "publisher": "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change", "published": "2021", "url": "https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/chapter/chapter-11/", "finding": "Reports strengthened observed and attributed evidence for several extremes since earlier assessments while retaining hazard- and region-specific uncertainty.", "accessed": "2026-08-09" }, { "type": "government national scientific assessment", "title": "Fifth National Climate Assessment Appendix 4: Indicators", "publisher": "U.S. Global Change Research Program", "published": "2023", "url": "https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/downloads/NCA5_App4_Indicators.pdf", "finding": "Documents additional U.S. indicators and explains evidence linking climate change with the frequency or severity of many extremes.", "accessed": "2026-08-09" }, { "type": "international scientific assessment", "title": "Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis — Summary for Policymakers", "publisher": "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group I", "published": "2021", "url": "https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/chapter/summary-for-policymakers/", "finding": "States that human-induced climate change is already affecting many weather and climate extremes and that evidence of observed changes and attribution has strengthened since AR5.", "accessed": "2026-08-09" } ] } ], "revision_history": [ { "version": "0.1", "date": "2026-08-09", "change": "Initial editor-review candidate created from four native public claims, primary and peer-reviewed sources, explicit uncertainty, and a complete ten-slide social preview. No publication approval recorded." }, { "version": "0.2-r6", "date": "2026-08-11", "change": "Replaced the Arctic-ratio case with the wind-and-solar lifecycle-emissions claim, preserved the exact ‘no sharp acceleration’ wording, qualified the UNECE-derived 80–99% illustrative range, added the AR6 Working Group I Summary for Policymakers source, and integrated the final R6 slide renders. No publication approval recorded." }, { "version": "1.0", "date": "2026-08-11", "change": "Recorded final owner approval for the public website record and corrected larger-type R6 social edition after independent source, calculation, accessibility, limited-use, and editorial review. This local package does not itself deploy or post the issue." }, { "version": "1.1-r7", "date": "2026-08-11", "change": "Replaced the Issue 003 visual skin with owner-approved established ACC navy, orange, cyan, and lime R7 artwork while preserving the claims, evidence, verdicts, citations, and accessibility copy. This local package does not itself deploy the website or post the issue." } ] }