Climate Fact Check for July 2025

This summary serves as a fact check on the top false claims made about climate change by the media in July 2025. 

Guardian Downgrades the Climate Crisis, Chemical Pollution a “Comparable” Threat

Amazing how many other problems are just as important as the crisis of our time.

Astonishing Extreme Lightning Bolt Recorded

It was a single lightning flash that streaked across the Great Plains for 515 miles, from eastern Texas nearly all the way to Kansas City, setting a new world record.

Why Is Cheap Electricity So D@mn Expensive?

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [See update at the end] We’ve been told over and over by very serious people that wind and solar are far cheaper than natural gas…

Bad News Getting Worse For New York’s Struggling Grid With Looming Green Buildings Mandate

New York will soon force developers to build new buildings that can only use electricity for temperature control and appliances, which will further strain the state’s electric grid if it’s…

Asian Forests Victims of Intolerable ‘Green’ Lie

In the modern climate debate, emotion and partisan allegiance replace critical thinking to smear carbon dioxide (CO2) as a dangerous pollutant. Well-crafted green advocacies steal the spotlight, while reason languishes…

EVs Stuck Below 22%

Carmakers will doubtless roll their deficits against ZEV targets forward to next year, but this is sillier than taking out a payday loan!

Yet Another Misleading Report on “Low-Cost” Wind and Solar

Promoting misleading claims about wind and solar power distorts policymaking and will only exacerbate the growing inadequacy of electric supplies to meet increased demand in the wake of continued electrification…

Climate Oscillations 12: The Causes & Significance

The connection between orbital mechanics, solar variability and climate is complex. I don’t know the answer, but this post will bring you up to date.

OCO Satellites: Fancy Tools, Empty Pockets

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach One of the most reliable tells in the climate shell game is a government program with a name that promises “carbon” and delivers something suspiciously…

If Global Warming is a Problem, Why is there So Much Snow in Australia?

Former nationals leader Barnaby Joyce stirring the greens.

Climate Change Is Not to Blame for the Rising Costs of Natural Disasters, NBC

However, there is no real-world data showing such disasters are becoming more common or deadly, or any indication whatsoever that human greenhouse gas emissions cause or contribute to them. Nor…

Ditching Ed Miliband’s Net Zero Madness Could Save Every Family £1,000 a Year

But, if these wind farms go ahead, it will be an act of grave economic self-harm. By putting a spanner in the works of Miliband’s mad plan, we can stop…

BBC & Melting Glaciers In Switzerland

The BBC might like to consider that none of these villages were there three hundred years ago because the glaciers were there instead.

Utility Bills Spiking As America’s Power Demand Takes Off

Electricity costs are surging as America’s power needs climb, driven in part by the growing demand from power-hungry artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, according to data from the Energy Information…

New Study: Heatwave-Related Deaths Have Been Declining In Recent Decades

As heating demand and costs rise, there will likely be more susceptibility to cold-related deaths in the future. In contrast, heatwave-related mortality will likely continue to decline.

Oxford Lecturer: Authoritarian China is less susceptible to petroleum-obsessed dogma

They teach our kids – another green attack on Democracy, this time from University of Oxford Professor Stephen Lezak.

Devastating Official US Report Lays Bare The Abuses of ‘Settled’ Climate Science And Its Role in Net Zero

Net Zero is dead in the United States and the last rites have been administered in the devastating official report from the Department of Energy. Released earlier this week, the…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #652

Quote of the Week: “The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.” — Max Planck, The Universe in…

Ed Miliband refuses to publish details of green energy deal with China

MPs are up in arms over Miliband’s refusal to publish details of a net zero cooperation deal signed with China.