Maxim Lott at Fox News lists 5 “most over-the-top climate warnings,” and in discussing them he quotes two Cornwall Alliance network scholars.

The five warnings—all bogus—are that:

1. Warming causes declining human birth rates (Morning Consult).
2. We have “12 years left to live” because of it (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—and lots of her acolytes in and out of Congress).
3. Warming causes more tornadoes (Ocasio-Cortez, Al Gore, and others).
4. Warming causes Indian tigers to eat more people (website “The Conversation”).
5. Warming is causing mass extinctions.

You can read the rebuttals in Lott’s article. I just thought it was nice to see that Lott quoted Cornwall scholars Roy W. Spencer and Gregory Wrightstone:

• Roy, that “Scaring our young people over climate change verges on criminal” and “The climate system is warming at such a slow rate that virtually no one would feel the change in their lifetime.” In his own article at Fox News, Roy explains why it’s not unusual warmth but unusual cold that causes more tornadoes.
• Greg, that “Extinctions peaked in the late 1800s and the early 20th century, followed by a significant decline that continues today.” On his blog, Greg pointed out that extinction rates peaked around 50 per decade in the late 1800s and have declined to about 5 per decade since—a far cry from the million doomed “in the not-too-distant future,” “many within decades,” claimed by the United Nations, a rate that, if “the not-too-distant future” means a century would require 100,000 extinctions per decade. (Extinctions would have to accelerate 20,000 times to meet that rate.)