Guest Post by: The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, The Heartland Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, and the International Climate Science Coalition, and Truth in Energy and Climate.
Editor’s note: This compilation serves as a fact check on the most widespread false claims made about climate change by the media in June, 2026.
Exposing false climate claims about alleged ‘looming’ catastrophe, Antarctica, heatwaves, & food production
Links: Reuters, The Independent, ocean-atmospheric oscillation, University of Alabama Huntsville data.
Links: Futurism article, The Guardian story, observational data, low temperature record, “banana belt.”
Links: X post, excess heat deaths data, extreme cold data, The Lancet research paper.
Links: Bloomberg story, FAO data, CO2 fertilization effect, yield boost data, growing seasons, world hunger data, IPCC comments.
Links: The Washington Post article, attribution study.
Until next month, enjoy these and other great climate fact checks at:
ClimateRealism.com
• No, The Conversation, the AMOC Doesn’t Have an Image Problem. It Has a Credibility Problem
• Wrong, ScienceAlert: Sea Level ‘Acceleration’ Isn’t What the Measured Data Show
• No, New York Times, Climate Change Is Not Making Tennis Players Ill
ClimateDepot.com
• UN climate agency warns of ‘slower’ games due to ‘extreme heat during the World Cup
• Physicist Dr. Will Happer warned the world has been taken in by ‘the climate madness of a pseudo-scientific doomsday cult’
• Mayor of Paris rejects installing AC in homes: ‘Individual air conditioning is a scourge’ – Instead urges ‘cooling collective spaces’
Wattsupwiththat.com
• It’s Summer Again, So Media Tees-Up Another Round of ‘Heat Dome’ Mania
• Here Comes the Super Mega Ultimate Hyper Giga Godzilla El Niño
• The Moist-Adiabatic Theory vs. Reality
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Great post, highlighting the facts behind the overblown climate hysteria. What should be added to the link section is just the (5 years old, but regularly updated) post from Willis Eschenbach: “Where is the Climate Emergency?” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/04/25/wheres-the-emergency/ I think it’s the most comprehensive collection of facts on lots of climate aspects. It also helped me curing two close friends from climate hysteria, who were also fully convinced about the “settled science” and “consensus” told them by the MSM.
“The ideal gas law states that if the pressure on a gas is increased, its temperature will rise. That’s how heatwaves form.”
No it’s not:
They form because a hot sub-tropical airmass has been advected north and a consequent ridge of high pressure has developed over it (sometimes becoming an Omega block).
Air then is forced to descend aloft as it converges, and a subsidence inversion develops that becomes a “ceiling” beyond which surface convection cannot go.
Hence surface heating is confined to the lower atmosphere and is not convected towards the tropopause.
“AI Overview
No. Increasing atmospheric pressure alone does not cause the temperature to rise at the surface. In the Earth’s atmosphere, pressure and temperature are connected through vertical movement and the Ideal Gas Law, but static changes in pressure do not spontaneously generate heat.
The mechanisms governing this atmospheric relationship include:
Ask the following question:
Does high pressure air absorb more heat radiation than low pressure air?
AI response:
This is the cause of the climate catastrophe. High pressure is created and absorbs more heat radiation. When the high pressure absorbs more heat radiation, the strength of the high pressure increases even more.
The high pressure just absorbs more and more heat radiation and becomes stronger and stronger, and the climate catastrophe gets bigger and bigger.
The whole earth eventually becomes one big high pressure. The high pressure only increases in strength, grows and spreads over the whole earth.
Explain why this scenario does not happen and you begin to understand the earth’s self-adjusting temperature mechanism.
Dueling AI.
Love it 😂
Maybe – However, I have the davantage of being a retired Meteorologist of 32 years.
We are grateful you retired. 🙂
Yet you seem ignorant of basic Metrology and Physics.
And fortunately the Haughton guy you worked for and introduced the current lunatic trends is now dead and gone.
Apparently it was Covid got him previous to which he had dementia.
I might suggest the dementia preceded the diagnosis for at least 3 decades before detection, otherwise why would anyone claim to be an authority like you on the climate and weather getting a degree from a place like Oxford (which was no good for science so many decades ago).
Indeed Haughton who caused all these whopping lies laced it all up with “presbyterian zeal” of “stewardship” of the earth – claiming like most arrogant ivory tower intellectuals, that human beings “COULD” actually rival termites and volcanoes in actually being able to affect the climate!!!
“This is the cause of the climate catastrophe. High pressure is created and absorbs more heat radiation. When the high pressure absorbs more heat radiation, the strength of the high pressure increases even more.”
No a heat low will form and reduce the anticyclonic gradient.
“Heat lows (thermal lows) often form in the lower troposphere over arid or semi-arid regions and are dynamically capped by an overlying mid-level anticyclonic (high pressure) flow. In this setup, the intense surface heating generates a low-pressure circulation at the ground, while the overlying anticyclone acts as a lid. [1]”
“The high pressure just absorbs more and more heat radiation and becomes stronger and stronger, and the climate catastrophe gets bigger and bigger.
The whole earth eventually becomes one big high pressure. The high pressure only increases in strength, grows and spreads over the whole earth.”
Obviously not as there cannot be descending air throughout the atmosphere!
(what goes up must come down and vice versa)
Are you not aware how air is transported globally to even out the deltaT betwixt equator and poles?
“Explain why this scenario does not happen and you begin to understand the earth’s self-adjusting temperature mechanism.”
At root is the balance of Ein vs Eout. A desert does not continually get hotter because an equilibrium is reached.
It’s just that equilibrium point is higher than it was.
I just have.
You are now beginning to understand what it is that stops the high pressure from growing and spreading around the world. Only a few small adjustments are needed:
AI response:
Rainforests sit under persistent low-pressure systems where heated, moist air rises, cools, and condenses into rain.
Deserts sit under high-pressure zones where dry air sinks towards the ground, suppressing cloud formation and moisture. This atmospheric setup dictates the daily weather and climate of these extreme biomes.
Understanding these systems highlights how pressure dictates water availability on a global scale.
Rainforests (Low Pressure / Ascending Air): Intense solar heating causes warm, humid air to rise. As this air climbs, it cools, forcing water vapor to condense and form dense clouds and torrential rainfall.
Deserts (High Pressure / Descending Air): Air that has already shed its moisture (such as at the equator) moves towards the subtropics and sinks. As this air drops, it warms and expands, which prevents clouds from forming.
AI gets things wrong sometimes: “With a higher concentration of absorbing gases like CO2 and H2O vapor, there are simply more absorbers available to intercept, absorb, and transfer incoming or outgoing infrared (heat) radiation.”
Absorbing gases do not intercept IR below 12 micro-meters. 12 micro-meters is peak 241K -32C. And this isn’t even 50%. 100% is 14 micro-meters -66C to 16 micro-meters -92C. Extra heat comes from: (Advected heated air mass to higher latitudes, from no water surface and no clouds, ground heat builds, time of year means less time to radiate out to space). High pressure does not shrink the transparent window so absorbers can absorb within the normal window size (8-14 micro-meters) outgoing infrared (heat). This spreadsheet shows the extra 74w-m2 (12.7C) is lost before the atmospheric level equals 12 micro-meters temperatures (-40C).
Correction: extra 74w-m2 (12.7C) is lost before the atmospheric level equals 12 micro-meters temperatures (-40C). I meant after not before (apologies).
Many commentators do not seem to distinguish between energy and radiation. Energy is a thermodynamic concept and radiation is the name for electromagnetic entities.
Sometimes it is clear from the context what the subject is that is being addressed but many times the ambiguity leads to complete misunderstanding of what is being addressed.
Electromagnetic radiation, thermal radiation, conduction, convection etc. are energy in different forms.
Respectfully, these are energy transport mechanisms. They are not energy in and of themselves. And yes, they have different forms and mechanisms for transferring energy.
When energy is transported in these transport mechanisms, is it a form of energy that is transported?
An electric motor is driven by magnetic fields. Are the magnetic fields in an electric motor a form of energy?
A transformer transforms electromagnetic fields into different electromagnetic strengths. Are the magnetic fields in a transformer a form of energy?
Electric fields and magnetic fields don’t propagate like an EM wave does.
Energy is measured in joules. Energy transport is measured in joules/sec. The dimensions are not the same. Once is an amount, the other a rate.
RF fields are electromagnetic fields that can be transmitted between antennas.
Nikola Tesla transmitted electricity through the air:
I’m not sure what point you are making here.
Of course electric and magnetic fields exist and can affect objects inside the field. Have you ever tried the experiment of putting a magnet under a piece of paper and then sprinkling iron filings on top of the paper? It will show the magnetic field. Those field lines start at one end of the magnet and end on the other end of the magnet. They don’t propagate through space. They just exist throughout space.
A propagating EM wave doesn’t start and end in that manner.
“Measuring Radio Frequency (RF) fields involves capturing the electric field (V/m), magnetic field (A/m), or power density (W/m²) emitted by devices like radios, cell towers, and Wi-Fi. ”
These are propagating EM waves. They involve a *changing* field. Changes in the field propagate. Fields that don’t change create an infinite “field” (which may not be detectable with real world measuring devices) but they are static. There is no propagation from a static field.
https://weather.com/science/weather-explainers/news/2025-06-20-death-ridge-heat-dome-explainer
Never too old to learn new things. The mention of austral summer led me to discover that it means summer in the Southern Hemisphere and I had to hunt up its complement word for the Northern Hemisphere – boreal.