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Climate Fact-Check May 2026
Debunking claims of climate causing ‘less healthy’ food – Melting ice will NOT ‘drown millions’ – Droughts NOT caused by fossil fuels – Earth is NOT spinning slower due to…
Wrong, Daily Mail, The Thwaites Glacier Isn’t About to ‘COLLAPSE’
The DM’s tone implies the inevitability of collapse. But that’s wrong.
NOAA Bets on AI to Translate Weather Warnings—But Can Machines Reliably Convey Life-and-Death Messages?
weather warnings have long been issued almost exclusively in English. English at home, yet weather warnings have long been issued almost exclusively in English. A new study documents how the…
LIVE at 1PM EDT: They Want to Dim the Sun to Save the Earth – The Climate Realism Show
A company is now poised to “cool the earth” by spraying the skies of the world with “sunlight-reflecting aerosols.”
GOOD: NEWS: NOAA predicts a below-normal 2026 Atlantic hurricane season
Early preparation essential to staying safe all season Forecasters with NOAA’s National Weather Service are predicting a below-normal hurricane season for the Atlantic basin this year. NOAA’s outlook for the…
Did the Sun’s “Terminator” Predict the Coming 2026 El Niño? New Research Says Yes
Every Terminator since the 1960s coincided with a flip from El Niño to La Niña conditions.
Junk Science: “Loneliness caused by climate change kills people”
Claim: social isolation compounds mortality risk during climate events.
Scorecard: How Well Does NOAA’s Hurricane Outlook Actually Perform? 26 Years of Forecasts vs. Reality
Year-by-year verdict — did actual named storms and hurricanes fall within NOAA’s forecast range?
Study posits how carbon dioxide cools the upper atmosphere, and warms earth below
Researchers have supposedly solved a long-standing atmospheric puzzle: How rising carbon dioxide cools the stratosphere even as it warms Earth’s surface and lower atmosphere.
Buffalo without lake-effect snow? Ancient iceberg scratches reveal a reverse snowbelt
The west-moving plowmarks span from about 12,000 to 17,000 years ago — a period of roughly five millennia.
A Generation of Kids Thinks They Have No Future. Science Just Admitted Why.
The “most significant development in climate research in decades,” has an ugly side.
Bugs, Windshields and Climate Change – Oh My!
Evolution in car design, or climate change – YOU PICK THE WINNER.
RIP Doomsday Model RCP8.5 – A Quiet but Profound Shift in Climate Science
RCP8.5 is mostly dead, let’s hope it becomes truly dead.
Dam the Bering Strait? – When Climate Panic Meets Geoengineering Fantasy
Ocean circulation is a coupled system. Change one gateway, and you risk…well, anything.
The State of Climate Science: Uncertainty, Complexity, and the Politics That Follow
That combination brings both uncertainty and, inevitably, complications.
Eye Roller Study: Burned forest areas have faster snowmelt
No tree canopy means more sunlight reaches the ground…. Well….DUH!”
Interesting Field Work: Treetops glowing during storms captured for the first time
It’s nearly invisible to the naked eye but our instruments give rise to a vision of swaths of scintillating corona glowing as thunderstorms pass overhead
The Psychology of Climate Doom: How Narrative Outpaces Nuance
Humans are wired to prioritize alarming information over neutral data
New paper: U.S. temperature extremes have declined since 1899, challenging assumptions about increasing heatwaves
The result is simple: both hot and cold extremes have declined over the full period of record.