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…
Author: Anthony Watts
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,…
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…