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Claim: Thai princess “most likely a victim of the jab”, Thailand “could become the first country in the world to nullify the contract between the government and Pfizer” (Clayton Morris, 2023-02-04)
Evidence (2023-03-07): Did the government of Thailand announce plans to cancel COVID-19 vaccine contracts with Pfizer-BioNTech after a suspected connection between the Pfizer vaccine and Princess Bajrakitiyabha's December 2022 collapse was established? No, that's not true: An official from Thailand's National Vaccine Institute told the Associated Press on February 7, 2023, that the country does not intend to reconsider its contract with Pfizer or other COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers. The Royal Office of Thailand has provided no evidence to suggest that a "third shot" of the Pfizer COVID vaccine caused Princess Bajrakitiyabha's health emergency. Her vaccination records have not been made public. [...] And so they said to me, we will see to it that Thailand is the first country in the world that is going to declare this contract null and nullify the contract. ... [...] Bhakdi also claimed that he was in discussion with top Thai authorities to have the Pfizer contracts declared null and void -- an act that would potentially make Thailand the first country to do so. Bhakdi provided no names, official reports or other proof to corroborate these claims.
Claim: Thai princess “most likely a victim of the jab”, Thailand “could become the first country in the world to nullify the contract between the government and Pfizer” (Clayton Morris, 2023-02-04)
Evidence (2023-02-17): FACT CHECK: Is Thailand Banning Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine After It Caused Princess’ Health Issues? An image shared on Instagram purports Thailand is banning Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine after Thai Princess Bajrakitiyabha fell into a coma following a booster shot. [...] The Instagram post features a screenshot of a tweet that includes a link to an article claiming Thailand banned the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine after it allegedly made a princess fall into a coma. "Thailand to BAN Pfizer After Thai Princess Falls Into Coma Following Booster Jab," the image’s text reads.
Claim: Thai princess “most likely a victim of the jab”, Thailand “could become the first country in the world to nullify the contract between the government and Pfizer” (Clayton Morris, 2023-02-04)
Evidence (2022-12-15): Thai princess collapses from heart condition, palace says
Claim: Thai princess “most likely a victim of the jab”, Thailand “could become the first country in the world to nullify the contract between the government and Pfizer” (Clayton Morris, 2023-02-04)
Evidence (2022-12-15): Thai princess collapses from heart condition, palace says - Published
Claim: Thai princess “most likely a victim of the jab”, Thailand “could become the first country in the world to nullify the contract between the government and Pfizer” (Clayton Morris, 2023-02-04)
Evidence (2023-07-10): COVID-19 vaccines not responsible for Thai princess’ collapse; the country isn’t revisiting its contract with Pfizer [...] Factually inaccurate: Both claims were directly contradicted by Thai health authorities: the princess’ collapse was due to a bacterial infection and Thailand isn’t planning to nullify its contract with vaccine manufacturer Pfizer. [...] In summary, official statements attributed the princess’ collapse to a bacterial infection, not the COVID-19 vaccines. No proof to the contrary has been brought forth by Morris or Bhakdi. Official statements also confirmed that Thailand wasn’t planning to void its contract with Pfizer.
Claim: Thai princess “most likely a victim of the jab”, Thailand “could become the first country in the world to nullify the contract between the government and Pfizer” (Clayton Morris, 2023-02-04)
Evidence (2023-02-07): CLAIM: Thailand is canceling its COVID-19 vaccine contract with Pfizer after its princess fell into a coma following a booster shot. [...] "Thailand princess has been in a coma for about 3 weeks after getting a booster," wrote one Twitter user in a post that’s been liked or shared roughly 28,000 times as of Tuesday. "The Royal family has discovered Pfizer has lied & it’s looking like they will tear up their contract & demand billions back. This could be the start of Pfizer’s demise." [...] "I did speak with highest-ranking advisors to the government and Royal Family, thereby explaining why Thailand could and should annul the Pfizer purchase contract," he wrote in an email Monday. "No more, no less. And they seemed to be convinced. Nothing has happened due to internal counter-movements. We are renewing our efforts, however, and with luck there will be things to report in about 2 weeks."
Claim: Thai princess “most likely a victim of the jab”, Thailand “could become the first country in the world to nullify the contract between the government and Pfizer” (Clayton Morris, 2023-02-04)
Evidence (2023-02-11): The former professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany, whose parents were originally from Thailand, claims in the interview that top Thai officials are considering nullifying the Pfizer contract after hearing out his concerns about the inoculations. But the Thai government has disputed this. "FAKE NEWS DO NOT SHARE!" Thailand’s Department of Disease Control wrote in Thai in a Feb. 3 Facebook post that includes a screenshot of Bhakdi’s interview. "The public is requested not to be fooled and ask for cooperation not to send, or share such information on various social media channels." An official with Thailand’s National Vaccine Institute, which is under the Ministry of Public Health, also confirmed to the AP there are no plans to revisit the country’s contract with Pfizer. In a statement, Pfizer noted that Thailand’s disease control agency continues to recommend its vaccine "for all authorized ages and indications." Bhakdi acknowledged that some of the claims circulating online are an "exaggeration." But he maintains his concerns are being seriously considered. "I did speak with highest-ranking advisors to the government and Royal Family, thereby explaining why Thailand could and should annul the Pfizer purchase contract," he wrote in an email Monday.
Claim: Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says (Sean Martin, 2019-04-24)
Evidence (2019-04-24): This headline (and the article below it, as scientists who reviewed the article detail below) misrepresents a NOAA press release by inventing a claim that appears nowhere in that source—the idea that a coming minimum in the Sun's natural 11-year cycle of solar activity will cause cold weather around the world. There is no evidence supporting this.
Claim: Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says (Sean Martin, 2019-04-24)
Evidence (2019-06-27): The NOAA release says nothing about Earth’s weather or climate in the normal sense, but only discusses "space weather", which is about solar conditions and effects on the upper atmosphere. Hence, the headline of "Cold weather to grip WORLD as solar minimum to DEEPEN, NASA says" is incorrect and strongly misleading.The first paragraph ("A DEEP solar minimum is set to bring a prolonged period of colder temperatures across the globe, NASA has predicted") is also wrong, as the article says that the next solar cycle is expected to be similar to the preceding one and that they don’t expect a new sort of Maunder Minimum. Moreover, the article says that the steady decline in the solar cycle amplitude has come to an end. [...] Figure – Composite Total Solar Irradiance as daily values plotted in different colors for the different originating experiments. Source "An international panel of researchers led by NASA and NOAA has released a new prediction for the solar cycle: The current solar minimum is going to deepen, potentially reaching a century-class low in the next year or so." [...] "The last time a deep solar minimum was in effect was the Maunder minimum, which saw seven decades of freezing weather, began in 1645 and lasted through to 1715, and happened when sunspots were exceedingly rare. During this period, temperatures dropped globally by 1.3 degrees celsius leading to shorter seasons and ultimately food shortages."
Claim: Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says (Sean Martin, 2019-04-24)
Evidence (2018-09-27): Sept. 27, 2018: The sun is entering one of the deepest Solar Minima of the Space Age. Sunspots have been absent for most of 2018, and the sun’s ultraviolet output has sharply dropped. New research shows that Earth’s upper atmosphere is responding.
Claim: Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says (Sean Martin, 2019-04-24)
Evidence (2020-05-19): The most recent solar cycle was relatively quiet, leading to a lot of fearmongering over an impending Grand Solar Minimum, a longer period of time spanning several cycles where even the maximums are subdued. Reports suggested global temperatures would plummet, producing a mini ice age. NASA gave this idea a sound drubbing earlier this year. "The warming caused by the greenhouse gas emissions from the human burning of fossil fuels is six times greater than the possible decades-long cooling from a prolonged Grand Solar Minimum," wrote the NASA Global Climate Change team in February. [...] So, the solar minimum we're about to enter doesn't look particularly unusual, according to the NOAA and NASA, and we can expect a similar intensity to the previous cycle, they noted in their prediction.
Claim: Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says (Sean Martin, 2019-04-24)
Evidence (2018-08-13): In more depth, scientists know that even a prolonged Grand Solar Minimum would only serve to offset a few years of warming caused by human activities. In other words, warming caused by the greenhouse gas emissions from the human burning of fossil fuels is 6 times greater than the possible decades-long cooling from a prolonged Grand Solar Minimum.
Claim: Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says (Sean Martin, 2019-04-24)
Evidence (2017-06-27): "This is called solar minimum," says Dean Pesnell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. "And it’s a regular part of the sunspot cycle."
Claim: Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says (Sean Martin, 2019-04-24)
Evidence (2020-02-13): Several studies in recent years have looked at the effects that another Grand Solar Minimum might have on global surface temperatures. These studies have suggested that while a grand minimum might cool the planet as much as 0.3 degrees C, this would, at best, slow down but not reverse human-caused global warming. There would be a small decline of energy reaching Earth; however, just three years of current carbon dioxide concentration growth would make up for it. In addition, the Grand Solar Minimum would be modest and temporary, with global temperatures quickly rebounding once the event concluded.
Claim: Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says (Sean Martin, 2019-04-24)
Evidence (2010-09-02): The progress of NASA's GRIP aircraft can be followed in near-real-time when they are flying by visiting: http://grip.nsstc.nasa.gov/current_weather.html. "Click to start RTMM Classic" will download a KML file that displays in Google Earth.
Claim: "A third of Antarctic ice shelf risks collapse as our planet warms" (Amy Woodyatt, 2021-04-16)
Evidence (2021-04-16): Ice shelves are floating sheets of ice that are connected to land masses. They gain and lose surface ice over time depending on snowfall and atmospheric and ocean temperatures. A recent study found that 34% of the Antarctic ice shelf is vulnerable to collapse under a future climate scenario that is 4°C above pre-industrial levels.
Claim: "A third of Antarctic ice shelf risks collapse as our planet warms" (Amy Woodyatt, 2021-04-16)
Evidence (2024-02-21): The contribution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to global sea-level rise has been accelerating7,8, enhancing the risk of flooding and other associated hazards to low-lying coastal communities9. Much of this mass loss has been attributed to warm ocean currents weakening the buttressing effects of its ice shelves10,11,12, primarily in West Antarctica and the Wilkes Land coastline of East Antarctica10,11,12, and hence driving an acceleration of ice discharge into the ocean1,2. Therefore, observational records that track the change in ice-shelf thickness over the longest possible time periods are important for explaining how the Antarctic Ice Sheet is changing and hence forecasting future mass loss. Existing records of ice-shelf thickness change derived from satellite altimetry span 30 years and have shown major ice-shelf thinning in some parts of West Antarctica and the western Antarctic Peninsula, thinning in the Wilkes Land sector of East Antarctica and limited change in most other ice shelves3,4,5,12,13,14. However, this satellite-altimetry record remains short relative to the typically multidecadal response times of many Antarctic ice shelves15, and we do not know how widespread ice-shelf thinning was before 1992. [...] Paolo, F. S. et al. Response of Pacific-sector Antarctic ice shelves to the El Niño/Southern Oscillation. Nat. Geosci.11, 121–126 (2018). [...] Fürst, J. J. et al. The safety band of Antarctic ice shelves. Nat. Clim. Change6, 479–482 (2016).
Claim: "A third of Antarctic ice shelf risks collapse as our planet warms" (Amy Woodyatt, 2021-04-16)
Evidence (2021-05-19): Climate change: The Antarctic ice shelf in the line of fire [...] "So with that resilience we could potentially prevent a collapse if we curb carbon emissions and get a good grip on atmospheric warming. But what I would say is that Larsen C is probably as vulnerable as it's ever been in terms of the last 10,000 years because it's likely at the thinnest it's ever been over that period," he told BBC News. [...] Larsen C bounds some 300-400km of coastline, so it's critical it stays intact for as long as possible as we further warm the planet in the decades ahead.
Claim: "A third of Antarctic ice shelf risks collapse as our planet warms" (Amy Woodyatt, 2021-04-16)
Evidence (2022-08-10): Gutt, J. et al. Biodiversity change after climate-induced ice-shelf collapse in the Antarctic. Deep Sea Res. II58, 74–83 (2011). [...] Walker, C. C. et al. Iceberg, right ahead!: The surprising and ongoing collapse of an East Antarctic ice shelf in response to changes in the ocean environment. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts abstr. C13A-06 (AGU, 2019). [...] Status and trends in the stability of the three largest ice shelves in Antarctica
Claim: "A third of Antarctic ice shelf risks collapse as our planet warms" (Amy Woodyatt, 2021-04-16)
Evidence (2024-02-20): It doesn’t mean they’re in immediate danger of collapse. But as the Southern Hemisphere warms—and the ice sheet melts at faster rates—the risk could be rising. [...] It’s a process known as "hydrofracturing." And a new study, published yesterday in Nature, suggests that more than half of Antarctica’s ice shelves could be at risk. [...] And the combination of warming ocean waters and rising atmospheric temperatures could be a dangerous pair, he added. Antarctic ice shelves may increasingly be at risk of a double whammy: simultaneous weakening of the top and bottom.
Claim: "A third of Antarctic ice shelf risks collapse as our planet warms" (Amy Woodyatt, 2021-04-16)
Evidence (2021-12-17): Scientists, speaking at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in New Orleans this month, reported that a critical section of the keystone Antarctic glacier, Thwaites Glacier, will likely collapse in the next five to ten years. The research, led by Erin Pettit of Oregon State University, predicts that the Thwaites ice shelf will break apart within the next decade because of startling increases in surface fractures and rifts. Up until now the floating section at the outlet of Thwaites Glacier into the ocean, called the ice shelf, has been relatively stable, but the scientists say it could "shatter like a car windscreen." [...] It is not only the fracturing and breakup of ice that is worrying scientists, but the warming of ocean temperatures, which is melting the ice shelf from below. Much of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is grounded below sea level, which means that as the glaciers retreat inland, more ice is exposed to warm ocean waters. This shift is causing great concern because melting from below is also loosening Thwaite’s grip on its pinning point, causing the glacier to become more unstable. Intensive work has been done to better understand the ice-ocean interaction in the region by boring holes hundreds of meters deep through the ice and by deploying submersible robots to dive under the ice shelf and collect data autonomously.
Claim: "A third of Antarctic ice shelf risks collapse as our planet warms" (Amy Woodyatt, 2021-04-16)
Evidence (2024-03-04): The Thwaites Ice Shelf begins where the massive Thwaites Glacier meets the West Antarctic coast. The shelf is a floating slab of ice, several hundred meters thick, extending roughly 50 kilometers into the Southern Ocean, covering between 800 and 1,000 square kilometers. For the past two decades, as the planet has warmed, scientists using satellites and aerial surveys have been watching the Thwaites Ice Shelf deteriorate. The decline has caused widespread alarm because experts have long viewed the Thwaites Glacier as the most vulnerable part of the larger West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The ice shelf acts as a dam, slowing its parent glacier's flow into the ocean. If the shelf were to fall apart, the glacier's slide into the sea would greatly accelerate. The Thwaites Glacier itself holds enough ice to raise the global sea level by 65 centimeters (about two feet). The loss of the Thwaites Glacier would in turn destabilize much of the rest of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, with enough ice to raise sea levels by 3.2 meters—more than 10 feet.
Claim: "A third of Antarctic ice shelf risks collapse as our planet warms" (Amy Woodyatt, 2021-04-16)
Evidence (2021-04-29): Antarctic ice shelf risks collapse due to warm mountain winds Antarctica's fourth largest ice shelf risks collapse due to mountain winds, according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA). [...] "The collapse of ice shelves causes the glaciers that previously fed them to speed up and drain directly into the ocean, which leads to sea level rise."
Claim: "A third of Antarctic ice shelf risks collapse as our planet warms" (Amy Woodyatt, 2021-04-16)
Evidence (2024-08-27): Joughin, I., Smith B.E. and Medley, B. 2014. "Marine Ice Sheet Collapse Potentially Under Way for the Thwaites Glacier Basin, West Antarctica." May 16. Science. 344,735-738.DOI:10.1126/science.1249055 [...] Pattyn, F., Favier, L., Sun, S. et al. 2017. "Progress in Numerical Modeling of Antarctic Ice-Sheet Dynamics." July 21. Current Climate Change Reports. 3, 174–184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-017-0069-7 [...] Siegert, M.J., et al 2019. "The Antarctic Peninsula under a 1.5°C global warming scenario." June 28. Frontiers in Environmental Science. v.7: 102. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00102
Claim: "A third of Antarctic ice shelf risks collapse as our planet warms" (Amy Woodyatt, 2021-04-16)
Evidence (2024-08-28): Many of the glaciers around Antarctica have huge floating extensions called ice shelves that buttress the glacier and slow its ice flow into the ocean. With the climate warming, we have seen some of these floating extensions collapse, sometimes very rapidly, in the span of a few weeks or months. If Thwaites’ ice shelf were to collapse, it would expose a very tall ice cliff facing the ocean along its 75-mile (120-kilometer) front. There is only so much force that ice can sustain, so if the cliff is too tall, it will collapse into the ocean. [...] Ice-ocean interactions explain most of the recent ice mass loss so far. Antarctica is a very cold place, so atmospheric warming isn’t having a large effect yet. But warm ocean currents are getting under the ice shelves, and they are thinning the ice from below, which weakens the ice shelves. When that happens, the ice streams flow faster because there is less resistance.
Claim: "A third of Antarctic ice shelf risks collapse as our planet warms" (Amy Woodyatt, 2021-04-16)
Evidence (2023-09-19): "When polar ocean temperatures rise, then you have thinning in those ice shelves, but you can have other things occur when the ice shelves are also affected by the atmosphere," Schlegel said. "So, when you have more melting on the surface because the temperatures of the atmosphere are going up, in addition to the ocean-driven melting, then that can help create instabilities and cracks. And then you can have increased ice loss due to calving [when a portion of the ice shelf breaks away]." [...] From 2002 to 2017, ice sheets contributed a third of the total mean sea level rise, according to GRACE measurements. Over the last 25 years, Antarctic ice shelves have lost about 6,000 gigatons of ice just through thinning, researchers have found. In the long run, thinning can lead to ice-sheet collapse, Gardner said.
Claim: "A third of Antarctic ice shelf risks collapse as our planet warms" (Amy Woodyatt, 2021-04-16)
Evidence (2021-04-08): Third of Antarctic ice shelf area at risk of collapse as planet warms More than a third of the Antarctic's ice shelf area could be at risk of collapsing into the sea if global temperatures reach 4°C above pre-industrial levels, new research has shown. [...] It found that 34% of the area of all Antarctic ice shelves—around half a million square kilometers—including 67% of ice shelf area on the Antarctic Peninsula, would be at risk of destabilization under 4°C of warming. Limiting temperature rise to 2°C rather than 4°C would halve the area at risk and potentially avoid significant sea level rise.
Claim: "A third of Antarctic ice shelf risks collapse as our planet warms" (Amy Woodyatt, 2021-04-16)
Evidence (2021-04-13): A third of Antarctic ice shelves could collapse at current pace of warming [...] A third of Antarctica's vast offshore ice shelves could collapse into the ocean if the world warms by 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels. These floating platforms of solid water wouldn't directly raise sea levels if they melted; they already sit in the ocean. But they're important barriers preventing the immense bulk of the frozen continent's glaciers from rolling out to sea. If those inland glaciers reached open water, sea level could rise catastrophically. [...] In other words, the world where climate change proceeds to the point where a third of Antarctic ice shelves are at risk would involve more major failures to curb greenhouse gas emissions or the discovery of some warming feedback mechanisms that haven't been discovered yet.
Claim: "A third of Antarctic ice shelf risks collapse as our planet warms" (Amy Woodyatt, 2021-04-16)
Evidence (2021-04-09): Over a third of the Antarctic's ice shelf area may be at risk of collapsing into the sea if global temperatures reach four degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, according to a study. The research, published in the Geophysical Research Letters journal, found that 34% of the area of all Antarctic ice shelves -- around half a million square kilometers -- including 67% of ice shelf area on the Antarctic Peninsula, would be at risk of destabilisation under such a warming scenario. [...] The researchers noted that limiting temperature rise to two degrees Celsius rather than four degrees Celsius would halve the area at risk, and potentially avoid significant sea level rise. They noted that when melted ice accumulates on the surface of ice shelves, it can make them fracture and collapse spectacularly. [...] Ice shelves are permanent floating platforms of ice attached to areas of the coastline and are formed where glaciers flowing off the land meet the sea, they said. The researchers identified the Larsen C, Shackleton, Pine Island and Wilkins ice shelves as most at-risk under four degrees Celsius of warming, due to their geography and the significant runoff predicted in those areas.