{"id":294043,"date":"2024-01-06T16:58:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T15:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=294043"},"modified":"2024-01-06T16:58:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T15:58:17","slug":"climate-fact-check-december-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=294043","title":{"rendered":"Climate Fact Check: December 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/\">JunkScience.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Steve Milloy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"520\" data-attachment-id=\"294047\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=294047\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-06-165436.png?fit=1178%2C847&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1178,847\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screenshot-2024-01-06-165436\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-06-165436.png?fit=723%2C520&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-06-165436.png?resize=723%2C520&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-294047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-06-165436.png?resize=1024%2C736&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-06-165436.png?resize=300%2C216&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-06-165436.png?resize=768%2C552&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-06-165436.png?w=1178&amp;ssl=1 1178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ten bogus climate claims and more from December 2023 debunked\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Climate-Fact-Check_December-2023-Edition_v3.pdf\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Climate-Fact-Check_December-2023-Edition_v3.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Climate-Fact-Check_December-2023-Edition_v3.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-e0bb210c-86fa-4a50-bb41-39c548c47d82\" href=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Climate-Fact-Check_December-2023-Edition_v3.pdf\">Climate-Fact-Check_December-2023-Edition_v3<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Climate-Fact-Check_December-2023-Edition_v3.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-e0bb210c-86fa-4a50-bb41-39c548c47d82\">Herunterladen<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 does seem to have been a relatively warm<br \/>\nyear, as we predicted would happen in the<br \/>\nevent of an El Nino. And guess what? That\u2019s<br \/>\nwhat happened<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":294047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"2023 does seem to have been a relatively warm \nyear, as we predicted would happen in the \nevent of an El Nino. And guess what? 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