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 September, 2026.
Summer 2026 NOT hottest evah! – ‘Climate Change’ NOT gobbling up apples or making wildfires more frequent & intense – Sea Levels NOT rising faster than ever – Flash flooding NOT due to ‘climate change’
Links: Post by Secretary-General António Guterres, sea level rise studies, 1920s-1940s rates.
Links: CNN report, Grand Canyon history.
Links: CNN post, CBS post, USA Today post, NOAA data, NOAA press release, U.S. climate divisions recording records, TOB adjustment, homogenization issues, blending urban warming.
Links: NPR affiliate post, USDA data.
Links: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse clip, satellite record, fuel buildup research, 1910 “Big Burn.”
Links: TIME Magazine article, IPCC wind speed confidence.
Until next month, enjoy these and other great climate fact checks at:
- Wrong, USA Today, “Hottest Summer Ever” Claim Ignores the Most Important Temperature Record
- Wrong, Euronews: Climate Change Has Not Created a Food, Energy, and Economic ‘Meta-Crisis’
- Impossible, Asia Nikkei, Climate Change Can’t Be Harming Indonesian Coffee Production, It Is Setting Records
- Wash Post: Global warming now causes FEWER hurricanes – ‘Increasing atmospheric STABILITY in the tropical Atlantic may be connected to a changing climate’
- Psychology Today: ‘How a warming world may be increasing the risk of child maltreatment’ – ‘Climate-related stressors’ linked to ‘the risk of child abuse’
- Tire Banning has arrived: Unelected California bureaucrats issue ban on non ‘efficient’ tires – Climate nannies claim ‘equivalent of taking 400,000 cars off the road each year’
- 2025 Nature Paper Claiming Worsening Global Drought Gets RETRACTED …Heavily Flawed
- “Implausible” Met Office UK Climate Projections Still Whipping up Unjustified Net Zero Convenient Fear
- “More And More Severe Storms”: When Can We Declare This Hypothesis To Be Definitively Falsified?
Read the original PDF, here.
AS usual the consistently alarmist mainstream media has been fulfilling its pay-for-publishing-propaganda mandate from the various environmental organizations to exaggerate, distort or out right lie about any sort of natural occurrence, and then attribute it to climate change. So readers have to promptly dismiss this sort of nonsense.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse should stick to gardening where fresh fertilizer is considered useful.
OTH, the rise in the level of bullshit is greater than ever.
Several years ago a USGS research scientist reviewed data on changes in US East coast peat bogs and river sediments and concluded that sea level has been rising at an average rate of 1-2 mm/year for the past 6,000 years; the flat part of your first figure.
2026 has been the warmest summer on record for the US according to every data set.
That includes satellite.
Accordingly, WUWT has failed to update the USCRN data since May.
WUWT continue to ‘hide the incline’.
2026 has also, by far, the warmest year-to-date on record for the US (Jan-Sep).
It hasn’t been the warmest where I live. You only get that by averaging disparate temperatures. I don’t care who does it, it’s bogus.
How else would you propose calculating an average regional temperature?
Effectively what you’re saying is that if it isn’t raining where you live then it isn’t raining anywhere else in the world.
July 2026 was the warmest July on record in CRN.
August 2026 was the warmest August on record in CRN.
September 2026 was the warmest September on record in CRN.
October is shaping up to be exceptionally hot as well:
https://prism.oregonstate.edu/comparisons/anomalies.php?var=tmean&comp=mtdanom
Indeed, yet not a mention does it get in the fantabulous, “Climate fact check: September 2026 Edition”
If it had been the coolest July, August and September on record for the US, I suspect they may have squeezed in a mention.
But the warmest, “Blah!“
Good things to know.