{"id":1120772,"date":"2021-12-15T08:58:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T13:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1120772"},"modified":"2021-12-15T08:58:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T13:58:37","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-what-scientists-have-predicted-earth-will-look-like-in-20-years-from-space-as-a-result-of-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-what-scientists-have-predicted-earth-will-look-like-in-20-years-from-space-as-a-result-of-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show What Scientists Have Predicted Earth \u2018Will Look Like In 20 Years From Space\u2019 As A Result Of Climate Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">50<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-image-show-what-scientists-have-predicted-earth-will-look-like-in-20-years-from-space-as-a-result-of-climate-change%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1120772&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100044671893055\/posts\/454068816092178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows what scientists have predicted Earth \u201cwill look like in 20 years from space if we don\u2019t reverse climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7337361\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7337361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image, taken by a NASA spacecraft in 1979, shows Venus.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Facebook users <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100044671893055\/posts\/454068816092178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently shared<\/a> a picture taken from space of a planet that appears to be tan with no discernible foliage or water. Scientists have \u201creleased this image of what Earth will look like in 20 years from space if we don\u2019t reverse climate change today,\u201d this particular post claims.<\/p>\n<p>But, contrary to what the post suggests, the picture does not depict a model of Earth that scientists put out to demonstrate climate change\u2019s future impact. A reverse image search revealed that, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov\/photo_gallery\/photogallery-venus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive<\/a> (NSSDCA), it is actually an \u201cultraviolet image of Venus\u2019 clouds as seen by the Pioneer Venus Orbiter (Feb. 26, 1979).\u201d A spacecraft near Venus took the image in 1979, according to the NSSDCA.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Venus-planet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a> website includes the same image, credited to NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, on its page about Venus.<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/10\/29\/fact-check-map-us-look-like-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Map Show What Scientists Say The US Will Look Like In 30 Years Due To Climate Change?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cVenus photographed in ultraviolet light by the Pioneer Venus Orbiter (Pioneer 12) spacecraft, February 26, 1979,\u201d reads the description on Encyclopedia Britannica. \u201cAlthough Venus\u2019s cloud cover is nearly featureless in visible light, ultraviolet imaging reveals distinctive structure and pattern, including global-scale V-shaped bands that open toward the west (left). Added colour in the image emulates Venus\u2019s yellow-white appearance to the eye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the image in question does not show the effects of climate change on Earth in 20 years, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) did release a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar6\/wg1\/downloads\/report\/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Full_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a> in August that contains various scientific maps and graphics depicting aspects of climate change. Nothing matching the image taken by the Pioneer Venus orbiter appears in the report.<\/p>\n<p>The claim about the Venus image appears to have been <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrj880\/status\/1468728482431746049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1468728482431746049%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Ffactcheck-earth-climate-change-idUSL1N2SY1I7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first shared<\/a> in jest on Twitter. Check Your Fact <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/10\/29\/fact-check-map-us-look-like-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previously debunked<\/a> a picture allegedly showing a map representing the effects of climate change on the U.S. three decades from now, a claim that stemmed from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrj880\/status\/1453017745369534469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another tweet<\/a> by the Twitter user who originally posted the claim about the Venus image. In both cases, many social media users did not seem to perceive the apparent joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows what scientists have predicted Earth \u201cwill look like in 20 years from space if we don\u2019t reverse climate change.\u201dFacebook\/ScreenshotVerdict: False The image, taken &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}