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Stossel's second video about climate myths has been published, continuing the shoddy journalism from Stossel and fake research from Lueken. Like my last post , I'll first show the flaws in their rhetorical strategy and then look at the individual myths. I'll then provide a bibliography of the research on each of these subjects so you can check up on me and see for yourself that the actual research does not support Stossel's claims. Rhetorical Strategy The same tactics of taking soundbites out of context continues here. In fact, Stossel reuses the "We don't have decades; we hardly have years" clip in this video. He also shows a soundbite from news story reporting that extreme drought conditions exist in the northeastern US, but he doesn't show that the story attributes that to climate change (as his "myth" 5 claims). And he's still enlisting the help of Linnea Lueken to give scientific credibility to his shoddy journalism. But he adds an ...

  CO2 Coalition 's " Fact #29 ," " Fact #30 " and " Fact #31 " are essentially the same strawman attacks having to do with claims about droughts that nobody is actually saying. They basically observe here that there has been no change in droughts in the US, and droughts are declining globally. Here are the graphs they use to support this point. And yet who said otherwise? It's well-documented that warmer air holds more water, with water vapor increasing by ~7% for every 1 C warming. So on average, we should expect to see decreases in droughts as a global average. CO2 Coalition is attacking as strawman here. Climate scientists also observe that in more arid areas with less water availability, warming increases vapor pressure deficit (VPD) which should drive local and regional increases in the frequency and intensity of droughts (I cover more about this here ). This is observed in the American Southwest and in other areas around the world. In wetter...