Climate Central’s analysis should be given a failing grade, or more charitably, an incomplete. Claims that greenhouse gases alone are responsible for increasing cooling demand and household electricity bills are…
Author: Anthony Watts
No, ScienceDaily, Data Show No ‘Sharp Acceleration’ in Warming
ScienceDaily’s readers deserved to hear that distinction. Instead, they received another clickbait style headline announcing certainty with possible future consequences where the underlying science remains far more nuanced and proof…
Wrong, Wisconsin Examiner and Investigative Post, Canadian Wildfire Smoke Is Not Proof of Climate Change
The real story isn’t that smoke drifted hundreds of miles from Canadian wildfires. Wildfire smoke commonly does that and has throughout history, as was discussed at Climate Realism previously, here and here, for…
A Guardian Article Indicates the UK’s Climate Hype May Have Peaked
Let’s hope the recent shift represents editors rediscovering an old-fashioned reporting principle: stick with the verifiable facts, in this case that sometimes a heatwave is simply a heatwave.
No, New York Times, Climate Change Isn’t Causing Modern Heat Waves
The failure belongs squarely with the NYT simply parroting, without critical examination, a climate advocacy organization’s unverified claims.
Wrong, Newsweek, Europe’s Heat Deaths Are a Policy Failure, not a Climate Failure
Europe’s recurring heat deaths are the predictable consequence of governments discouraging the very technology that has protected Americans, and elites in in their own countries, from deadly summer heat for…
No, The Conversation, the AMOC Doesn’t Have an Image Problem. It Has a Credibility Problem.
The AMOC issue in the media does not have an image problem, it has a credibility problem.
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…