Donald Trump’s call for “American energy dominance” once drew eyerolling from Silicon Valley. Now, in a twist no one saw coming, Meta and other big-tech AI giants are beginning to…
Author: Anthony Watts
No, Al-Jazeera, Climate Change Hasn’t Altered African Flood and Drought Patterns
By presenting interviews and moment-in-time scenes as confirmation of a continent-wide climate verdict, Al Jazeera is misleading its audience by making a causal connection where data show none. Africa’s vulnerability…
Facts Over Fear: Newspaper Editorial Shift shows Climate Realism Breakthrough in the UK
… the Carbon Brief article unintentionally underscores a positive development: facts are beginning to compete with fear. Climate realism—grounded in observed data, historical context, and economic reality—is no longer confined…
False and Absurd: The BBC’s Fantasy of Climate-Driven Pay Cuts
By presenting speculative modeling as real-world loss, BBC Science Focus misleads readers into believing climate change is already draining their paychecks. The data say otherwise. The United States has become…
No, CBS News, Recent Temperatures Didn’t Surpass a ‘Critical Climate Mark’
By treating a short-term temperature blip as proof that a “critical climate change mark” has been breached, CBS/AP misleads readers about how climate science actually works. The 1.5°C figure is…
No, Yale Climate Connections, Dramatic Photos Don’t Prove Climate Change Effects
By substituting photographs for trends and models for measurements, Yale Climate Connections misleads readers into believing that six images can “show how climate change shaped our world.” They cannot. Climate…
No, NPR, CBS, and NBC, Climate Change Isn’t a Proven Cause of Arctic Warming
This is not careful climate reporting; it is narrative-driven alarmism. Readers and viewers deserve to know that “since 2006” is not established as a climate change trend, that Arctic records…
Wrong Again PBS, UN Is Pushing Another False Climate Crisis Report
By omitting the long trail of failed UN climate pronouncements, ignoring the dramatic decline in climate-related deaths, and treating speculative model outputs as inevitable futures, PBS and the Associated Press…
Wrong, Phys.org, Faulty Thermometers Aren’t Evidence of a ‘Climate Roller Coaster’
Phys.org does its readers a disservice by not fact checking the Nature study and examining other possible causes for its conclusions. Instead of a thoughtful scientific examination of the novel…
NPR’s Climate ‘Tipping Points’ Advocacy – Three Claims, Zero Evidence
NPR listeners and readers deserve the truth, which can only be discovered when the full context of each alarmist claim is presented. Instead, shamefully, Hersher and Sommer betray the ideal…
No, Al Jazeera, Fossil Fuels Aren’t Killing Billions—They’re Saving Them
The data clearly demonstrate that as fossil fuel use has expanded, global health has improved, lifespans have grown, infant mortality, starvation, and hunger have dramatically declined, and prosperity has reached…
Greta Thunberg Announces Plan to Copyright “How DARE You!”
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The AP Gets Hurricanes Wrong, Again, Melissa’s Intensity Is Not Proof of Climate Change
By turning a single weather event into a climate morality tale, The Associated Press misleads its readers and betrays journalistic objectivity. Hurricanes, even powerful hurricanes like Melissa are meteorology, not ideology. It…
No, Washington Post, Climate Change Isn’t Killing Washington, DC’s Trees—Urban Stress Is
The Washington Post’s story may make for poetic reading, but it’s science fiction masquerading as environmental journalism. The real issue is not a mildly warming world—it is a city that’s…
Is Climate Change the New Doctrine of The Catholic Church?
Scripture is clear: we are to care for the Earth. But stewardship is not synonymous with political posturing or theatrical stunts. Blessing blocks of ice may make headlines, but it does…
New ‘Climate at a Glance’ Book Challenges ‘Climate Crisis’ Narrative with Hard Data
The 118-page book covers 40 climate topics often discussed in science classes, as well as among the general public and media, and provides the data to show the earth is…
Quit Promoting Mad Schemes, New York Times, Blocking the Sun is a Dangerous Climate Gamble
The bottom line is this: blocking the sun to cool the planet is an inherently dangerous idea. Sunlight is the basis of life on Earth. Corrupting its distribution and intensity…
NBC News’ Claim of Climate Driven Rapid Hurricane Intensification is False
Until NBC News is interested in reporting real science, with all its uncertainties and caveats, their climate reporting will remain as stormy as the hurricanes they claim to understand.
No, Tribune, Short Term AI Weather Analysis Provides No Insight Concerning Climate Change
Tribune News Service: please stop confusing flash with substance. AI is not a magical oracle of climate truth — it’s a faster, sometimes cheaper way to crunch the same flawed models that have…
Wrong, Los Angeles Times, Declining Academic Rigor Is Responsible for Falling Test Scores, Not Climate Change
The LAT took a complex, decades‑in‑the‑making education problem and tried to pin it on the weather mislabeled as climate change. That’s not journalism, rather it is narrative promotion.