The AMOC issue in the media does not have an image problem, it has a credibility problem.
Author: Anthony Watts
Get a Clue, Yahoo Sports, The World Cup Is About Soccer and Celebration, Not Climate Guilt
The fact that reporters increasingly feel compelled to frame every major human activity as part of a climate crisis says far more about modern media priorities than it does about…
Wrong, ScienceAlert: Sea Level ‘Acceleration’ Isn’t What the Measured Data Show
Sea level is rising; it has been for generations. The key question is whether it is accelerating in a way that justifies claims of looming crisis. The longest, most reliable…
No, Climate Central, Summer Warming Isn’t Due to Climate Change
The Urban Heat Island is a primary factor in urban warming trends, not the footnote that Climate Central treats it as. Before attributing summer warming in 221 cities to human…
Wrong, Daily Mail, Future Melting Antarctic Ice Isn’t Going to Drown Millions
That is not a scientific failure. It is click-bait motivated journalistic malfeasance, and it deserves to be named as such.
Wrong, Guardian, Climate Change Hasn’t Taken New Orleans Beyond the ‘Point of No Return’
New Orleans faces engineering and land management challenges. It does not face a guaranteed watery extinction within decades based on current observed sea-level rise or hurricane trends. The Guardian’s doomsday…
No, Washington Post, ‘Carbon Pollution’ Isn’t Making Food Less Healthy
The Washington Post has taken a modest statistical decline in select minerals and inflated it into a planetary health crisis. That is not balanced reporting. Their readers deserve better.
No, USA Today, ‘Day After Tomorrow’ AMOC Collapse Isn’t Happening
The AMOC is complex. It has fluctuated for millennia. It may weaken modestly over this century under certain emissions scenarios. That is not the same as a Hollywood-style catastrophe.
Wrong, AP, Wildfires Have Always Burned at Night
The AP’s story does not represent accurate reporting. It is climate narrative reinforcement layered on top of selective data and incomplete history. The Associated Press should be ashamed to foist…
The Washington Post Gets It Right on Typhoon Sinlaku
Credit where it is due. The Washington Post reported on a dangerous storm without turning it into a climate morality play. That is how extreme weather coverage should be done.
Wrong Again, Associated Press, Climate Change Isn’t Overrunning Evolution
The Associated Press has taken an emerging field of conservation genomics and wrapped it in an existential storyline that exaggerates the speed and uniqueness of current climate trends. That is false…
No, BBC, Disaster Losses Can’t Be Tied to Climate Change
Presenting trillion-dollar model outputs as settled economic fact is bad journalism and the BBC should be ashamed for presenting such easily falsified rubbish as fact. That’s the true disaster here.
WESA Is Wrong, Sneezing and Watering Eyes Aren’t Climate Change Indicators
Sneezing in March is not a climate signal and WESA is doing a disservice to allergy sufferers in their coverage area by falsely leading them to think climate change is…
No, TIME, the Planet Isn’t ‘Heating Faster Than Ever’
TIME claims in a recent article, “The Planet is Heating Faster Than Ever Before,” that global warming has dramatically accelerated since 2015. This is demonstrably false. Observational satellite data disagree with…
Media Say, ‘Climate Change’ Caused the Deadly Lake Tahoe Avalanche. They’re Wrong.
Declaring each avalanche is evidence of “climate collapse,” despite avalanches being common or at least not unusual, throughout history, even when temperatures were cooler and atmospheric greenhouse gas levels were…
No, Earth.com, Climate Change Isn’t Causing Dangerous Fungus Outbreaks
Presenting overhyped projections about future infections as if it represented an ongoing global fungal expansion is lying, not reporting and certainly not trustworthy journalism. Earth.com should be ashamed of framing…
Wrong, Oceanographic Magazine, Sea Level Rise in Hawaii Is Not a Looming Catastrophe
Oceanographic Magazine conflates global statistics, public anxiety, and local coastal management into a single storyline of impending doom. The actual sea level measurements at Honolulu report relatively slow sea level rise.…
Wrong, Inside Climate News, Climate Change Isn’t Worsening Wildlife Viruses in New Jersey
The story admits the outbreaks have no clear, consistent environmental trigger in the data, then pivots to climate change anyway, making this irresponsible reporting on a dangerous pathogen.
Wrong, The Week, Climate Change Didn’t Shrink U.S. Paychecks
By presenting modeled counterfactuals as if they were observed declines in pay, The Week misleads readers about both climate impacts and economic reality. Actual wage data show Americans earning more, not less,…