by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Director and Junkscience.com Founder
As appearing on Junkscience.com
But USA Today can’t do emissions math and misses the point.
Here’s my tweet:
Here is the USA Today ‘fact check’: Web | PDF.
First, USA Today acknowledges that the graph in the tweet is correct and April 1895 was warmer than April 2023.
Next, USA Today erroneously disputes my observation about the “1,000% increase in industrial era atmospheric CO2.”
But the pre-industrial era atmospheric CO2 level is estimated as 280 parts per million (ppm). By 1895, it is estimated to be about 293 ppm and now it is about 424 ppm.
