The former Fox News host liked to dredge up a list of alleged errors by scientists in an attempt to undermine public trust.

As seems almost mandatory for high-profile right-wing television hosts, the late Fox News host Tucker Carlson was a climate science denier. Carlson regularly preached to his nightly audience of more than 3 million viewers that climate change concerns are like religion and that “the whole theory (of human-caused climate) is absurd.” In 2020, as wildfires burned across the Midwest, Carlson dismissed the connection between the fires and global warming, saying that for Democrats, “climate change is like systemic racism in the sky. You can’t see it, but rest assured it’s everywhere, and it’s deadly.” Last month, Carlson said that while “the climate is changing now,” humans weren’t causing it. Even then, he said, climate change was a “mixed blessing” with both advantages and disadvantages. Just before we go any further, let’s put a disclaimer there. Carlson's position contradicts every major scientific academy on the planet and more than half a century of detailed study, observation, and experimentation. In a 13-minute interview last month Carlson told viewers they shouldn't trust climate change experts, while reeling off a list of alleged errors from scientists in the past. Let's look at a few of them. Carlson said that “the world’s most famous climate change expert, Greta Thunberg,” recently deleted a tweet that said a scientist claimed that climate change “will wipe out all of humanity if we don’t stop using fossil fuels within the next five years.” Aside from the fact that Thunberg is not a climate scientist, earlier this year she deleted a tweet she posted in 2018 when she was 15. The tweet linked to an article with the headline "Top climate scientist: if we don't, humans will go extinct 'we won't fix climate change by 2023'." But as fact-checkers at Snopes and the Associated Press pointed out, the article it was linked to did not say that humanity would disappear by 2023. A scientist quoted in the article told the AP that the headline was “a complete misrepresentation of what I said.”" (Graham Readfearn, Environment Temperature Check)