The climate is changing slowly. Humanity is adapting rapidly. The world is not coming to an end. The only thing accelerating uncontrollably in TIME’s article is the rhetoric.
Author: Anthony Watts
Wrong, Media: Penguins Thriving or Dying, Climate Change Gets Blamed Either Way
The BBC reports that Antarctica’s gentoo penguins are “flourishing with climate change,” while CBS News reports that an iconic chinstrap penguin colony has suffered a “population collapse” driven by climate…
Wrong, Los Angeles Times, Climate Change Is Not Turning Nature into a Horror Movie
Nature isn’t staging a revolt against humanity. The LAT is simply staging a clickbait style horror story for its readers, and calling it climate science. That’s probably why it is…
Wrong, TIME, One Nor’easter Isn’t Proof of Climate Change
TIME starts with a storm, asks how climate change made it worse, and then assembles quotations supporting that premise while relegating contradictory evidence to a few sentences. That’s not how…
Wrong, Euronews: Climate Change Has Not Created a Food, Energy, and Economic “Meta-Crisis”
Euronews could have investigated those inconvenient facts. Instead, it took a collection of predictions about food, water, migration, geopolitics, and energy, wrapped them together under the fashionable label “meta-crisis,” and called…
Wrong, Guardian, If Humanity Can No Longer ‘Flourish,’ Someone Forgot to Tell Humanity
Humanity should address genuine problems with evidence, technology, adaptation, conservation, and sound policy. But declaring the planetary life support system to be approaching the abyss while people are living longer,…
Wrong, USA Today, “Hottest Summer Ever” Claim Ignores the Most Important Temperature Record
Good climate journalism should do the opposite. It should explain uncertainty, distinguish between adjusted datasets and pristine observations, and recognize that a record based on a few tenths of a…
Wrong, New York Times, Nepal’s Tragedy Wasn’t Caused by Climate Change
The tragedy in Nepal deserves careful scientific investigation, not instant political messaging. Good journalism follows the evidence wherever it leads. In this case, the evidence points first to geology and…
Wrong, Reuters, An Early Champagne Harvest Isn’t Proof of Climate Change
By the way, even if climate change were resulting in earlier harvests, that wouldn’t necessarily mean disaster or proof of a crisis for the industry. Farmers and vintners regularly adapt…
Wrong, Deutsche Welle, There Is No Such Thing as a “Super El Niño,” Nor is it on Team Climate
Deutsche Welle (DW) claims in “How climate change is teaming up with ‘Super El Nino” that a developing “Super El Niño,” combined with climate change, could make 2026 one of the…
Wrong, Reno Gazette Journal, a Flawed Climate Study Doesn’t Prove Future Desertification for Reno
Good science depends on testing assumptions against reality. Good journalism depends on questioning scientific claims before presenting them to the public as proven. In this case, both the PeerJ journal and the Reno…
No, Climate Central, Rising Cooling Costs Aren’t Due to Climate Change
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…
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…