# @ClimateRealists: X profile (context) **Lists:** [[Users/@ClimateRealists/Chronological List|Chronological list]] · [[Users/@ClimateRealists/Topical List|Topical list]] **Posts analyzed:** - [[Users/@ClimateRealists/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - ClimateRealists on Fossil Fuels Not Explaining CO2 (2026-11-03)|Post Analysis, 11/03]]: ❌ A word-for-word copy of @JunkScience's Nov 2 post (typo included), posted as its own; the Cohler & Soon quote is accurate, but the claim contradicts the carbon mass balance, the Suess effect and falling O₂ - [[Users/@ClimateRealists/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - ClimateRealists on Climate Datasets and the CSIRO Claim (2026-11-01)|Post Analysis, Nov 1]]: ❌ "none show any change in climate" and "no agency… has provided the Empirical Scientific Data" fail against public datasets and the CSIRO papers Roberts's own report names; the CSIRO "never claimed a danger" story is Roberts's own account, and the post is Senator Roberts's text posted under this account **Verbatim post:** [[Users/@ClimateRealists/Post Analyses/Post - ClimateRealists on Climate Datasets and the CSIRO Claim (2026-11-01)|Nov 1 post note]] **Topic:** [[Topics/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate|Climate Change Science and Policy Debate]] > [!important] Interaction with [[marshallpittman]] > - No authored interaction found. Searches for @marshallpittman posts that mention, reply to or quote @ClimateRealists or @MRobertsQLD, or carry either post's URL, returned 0 results, and no @ClimateRealists post is among Marshall's 73 bookmarks. > - Marshall's likes list (first page, 96 items; X gives no like timestamps) holds one @ClimateRealists post: [Oct 27, 2026, "Approximately 102 climate scientists from the UN Climate Panel IPCC clearly state in a technical chapter, table 12.12…"](https://x.com/ClimateRealists/status/2115118486087160071). I did not check its claim ⚠️. > - Marshall sent the Nov 1 post as a bare link. ## Identity - **Display name:** Climate Realists · **Handle:** [@ClimateRealists](https://x.com/ClimateRealists) · **User ID:** 26036200 - **Bio (X profile):** "The Fingerprint of the Sun can be seen all over the Earths climate with changing weather patterns, causing warming and cooling. My opinion.. is just that." The profile also carries a PayPal donation link. - **Joined:** Mar 23, 2009 · **Location (profile):** United Kingdom · **Verified:** yes (X Premium blue check) - **Who runs it:** no name, organisation or website is given on the profile, and I found no reliable public source naming the operator ⚠️. Its posts use "my" and "we" ("We have 24,000 climate & energy datasets…"), but the Nov 1 post is Senator Malcolm Roberts's wording, so "we" and "my" there are not this account's. - **Pinned post:** [2116867100916769218](https://x.com/ClimateRealists/status/2116867100916769218), Nov 1, 6:17 AM CST: "This Book has Balls.." quoting @anika_climate's ad for a £3.99 book. I did not open the book. ## Stats (X API, Nov 1, 2026) | Followers | Following | Posts (lifetime) | Listed | |---:|---:|---:|---:| | 80,020 | 1,699 | 146,950 | 976 | About 47 followers per account followed, and 146,950 posts in 17.6 years (about 23 a day on average, if the count includes replies and reposts). ## What it posts about From the [[Users/@ClimateRealists/Topical List|Topical List]] (49 items, Oct 30 to Nov 1, 949 likes and 50,294 views in total; 36 of them are quote posts): | Theme | Items | Likes | Views | |---|---:|---:|---:| | UK politics, Brexit, news links and culture war (non-climate) | 12 | 74 | 11,804 | | CO₂, temperature and "natural variation" claims | 10 | 323 | 11,711 | | Net Zero, energy costs and UK economy | 9 | 256 | 9,534 | | Nature, crops, heat deaths and extreme weather | 6 | 105 | 5,548 | | Climate alarm, activism and the media | 6 | 119 | 6,287 | | UN, COP31 and climate institutions | 2 | 29 | 1,866 | | Books and promotion | 2 | 21 | 1,581 | | Short reactions (quoted post's content not read) | 2 | 22 | 1,963 | CO₂ and temperature, Net Zero and energy costs, and UK politics make up 10, 9 and 12 of the 49 items; UK politics, books and short reactions are not climate science. The most-liked post in it (166 likes, 3,465 views) is [this one](https://x.com/ClimateRealists/status/2116219590891958510). ## Style - Mostly quote posts (36 of 49). In 19 of the 36 quote posts the account's text is at least 80% the same as the quoted post's text (a fuzzy text match on the full text, ignoring links), so it often re-posts another author's wording under its own name, as it did with Roberts. The embedded quote is the only credit. - @wattsupwiththat is the most-quoted account (7 quotes), then @anika_climate (4), @PeterDClack (3) and @UKLabour (3). - Headlines (some in bold Unicode type), usually ending with a link, and one-line rebukes ("RCP8.5 and ALL EMISSIONS SCENARIOS are CRYSTAL BALL ANTI-SCIENCE Irrelevancies"). - Frequent themes: ocean and "celestial mechanics" control of climate, "natural variation", the cost of Net Zero, and the Club of Rome and the UN as the origin of "climate activism". - It quotes @anika_climate, who sells a book, four times, including its pinned post. ## Fact-check scorecard | Date (CT) | Post | Verdict | |---|---|---| | Nov 3, 2026, 7:11 AM | "As I've been saying for years, fossil fuel emissions do not explain changes in atmospheric CO2…" ([[Users/@ClimateRealists/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - ClimateRealists on Fossil Fuels Not Explaining CO2 (2026-11-03)\|Post Analysis]]) | ❌ A word-for-word copy of @JunkScience's Nov 2 post (typo included), posted as its own; the Cohler & Soon quote is accurate, but the claim contradicts the carbon mass balance, the Suess effect and falling O₂ | | Nov 1, 2026, 3:47 AM | "We have 24,000 climate & energy datasets… none show any change in climate" ([[Users/@ClimateRealists/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - ClimateRealists on Climate Datasets and the CSIRO Claim (2026-11-01)\|Post Analysis]]) | ❌ 🟢 1, 🟡 2, ❌ 2, ⚠️ 3 | Two posts have been checked (the Nov 3, 7:11 AM CST copy of @JunkScience's post was added on Nov 4, 2026). The other 48 in the lists were **not** checked. One of them, on Oct 31 at 10:26 AM CDT, says that "The possible decline in CO2 emissions in 2020–2021 as a result of the COVID pandemic had no measurable effect on the atmospheric CO2 concentration. Once again proof that human CO2 emissions are barely 4% of natural emissions." (a quote of @fmeeus1): the Global Carbon Budget 2020 (Friedlingstein et al., *ESSD*) estimated a 2020 fossil CO₂ emission drop of about 7% (individual estimates −6%, −7%, −7% with a −3% to −11% range, and −13%), but I did not test whether that dip is detectable in the concentration record, nor the "4%" figure ⚠️. The post of Oct 27 on AR6 Table 12.12 was not checked either ⚠️. ## Interactions - **@marshallpittman:** none authored; see the callout above. - **@MRobertsQLD** (Malcolm Roberts, Queensland Senator): the Nov 1 post is a quote of his Oct 31 post with the same wording. - **@PeterDClack:** quoted three times in the sample (Oct 31 1:53 AM CDT, Oct 31 11:24 PM CDT, Nov 1 1:08 AM CDT), each time with long text. See [[Users/@PeterDClack/PeterDClack-x-profile|PeterDClack-x-profile]]. - **@MatthewWielicki:** on Oct 30 (8:24 AM CDT) it quoted his post with "This graph is scientific garbage masquerading as precision…" See [[Users/@MatthewWielicki/MatthewWielicki-x-profile|MatthewWielicki-x-profile]]. - **@cohler:** on Oct 30 (9:05 AM CDT) it quoted his post with "RCP8.5 and ALL EMISSIONS SCENARIOS are CRYSTAL BALL ANTI-SCIENCE Irrelevancies". See [[Users/@cohler/@cohler|@cohler]]. - **@ChrisMartzWX:** on Oct 30 (7:19 AM CDT) it quoted his "Hi. Meteorologist here. CO₂ does not 'supercharge' the ocean…" post with its text copied unchanged. See [[Users/@ChrisMartzWX/ChrisMartzWX-x-profile|ChrisMartzWX-x-profile]]. - **@BjornLomborg:** on Nov 1 (6:15 AM CST) it quoted his post "You've endlessly been told Climate is the greatest threat to global health…" with the text copied. See [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/BjornLomborg-x-profile|BjornLomborg-x-profile]]. - **2026-11-04 (summarize run):** for the 2026-11-03 post ([[Users/@ClimateRealists/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - ClimateRealists on Fossil Fuels Not Explaining CO2 (2026-11-03)|fossil fuels not explaining CO₂ (JunkScience copy)]]): No posts between @ClimateRealists and @marshallpittman were found in either direction (full-archive X search, Nov 4, 2026). Marshall bookmarked this post into "summarize". ## Gaps - The 49-post sample covers about 2.3 days (Oct 30, 2026 to Nov 1, 2026). Earlier history, replies and reposts were not read. - The operator is unnamed ⚠️. Follower and post-count details are as X returned them on Nov 1. - The reply and quote threads on the analyzed post were read in part. - Marshall's likes: only the first page (96 items) was read, and X gives no timestamps for likes. - Posts quoted in the sample were compared only by their text; images and links were not opened.