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…
Category: Bad science journalism
Sorry, Los Angeles Times, Coastal Highway 1 Has Always Suffered from Weather, Not Climate
The LAT seems to be blaming climate change for the natural dangers posed to Highway 1 because of its placement along an extremely active coastline. California’s history is littered with…
Argentine Cherry Crops are Fine, The Cool Down
The Cool Down doesn’t seem to understand what farmers throughout time have known: weather is fickle, with floods and droughts all too common. Nothing has changed in this regard. A…
“Storm” Chandra
While the US struggles with some really stormy weather, the increasingly pathetic Met Office try to whip up hysteria with so-called “Strom Chandra”.
Wrong, Mainstream Media, A Brief 1.4°C Global Temperature Spike Isn’t Evidence of ‘Climate Doom’
By portraying a model-reconstructed temperature figure as proof that the world is on the brink of irreversible climate danger, both Politico and NPR are grossly misleading their readers by flatly…
The Brain Microplastics Claim and the Collapse of Scientific Restraint
…the episode will stand as another example of how easily scientific restraint is abandoned when a frightening story is available for the telling.
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…
Attention, Energies Media, Sea Level Cannot be Submerging Tokelau if Tokelau is Growing
Energies Media seems to have relied on a lot of very outdated information to make their fearmongering claims about Tokelau. If the media outlet was really interested in the facts…
The Independent Refuses to Smell the Roses Regarding Winter Flowers and Climate Change
This year might have been warm for the UK, and it is unusual to have so many flower plants in deep winter, but it is hardly evidence of anything breaking…
Scots pine ‘could be wiped out by climate change’
So let’s get this straight. Scots pines are suffering in Cambridge, because it is too hot and dry. And that is supposed to mean they will die off in the…
Climate Policies Make California Unaffordable, LAist, Not Climate Change
LAist is simply pursuing a climate alarmist angle in this story, while downplaying the larger and frankly blatant influences on the state’s cost of living crisis. California is known for…
No, Yale Climate Connections, Dramatic Photos Don’t Prove Climate Change Effects
By substituting photographs for trends and models for measurements, Yale Climate Connections misleads readers into believing that six images can “show how climate change shaped our world.” They cannot. Climate…
Shropshire Sinkhole? Blame It On Climate Change!
If you want more money from the government, what better excuse do you need than “climate change”!
No, NPR, CBS, and NBC, Climate Change Isn’t a Proven Cause of Arctic Warming
This is not careful climate reporting; it is narrative-driven alarmism. Readers and viewers deserve to know that “since 2006” is not established as a climate change trend, that Arctic records…
Quit Lying, The New Republic, Climate Change Isn’t Threatening ‘Favorite Holiday Foods’
With the tinniest bit of effort, Kahn or The New Republic’s fact-checkers and editors could have discovered these facts themselves. They evidently couldn’t let facts get in the way of…
Wrong Again PBS, UN Is Pushing Another False Climate Crisis Report
By omitting the long trail of failed UN climate pronouncements, ignoring the dramatic decline in climate-related deaths, and treating speculative model outputs as inevitable futures, PBS and the Associated Press…
Wrong, Phys.org, Faulty Thermometers Aren’t Evidence of a ‘Climate Roller Coaster’
Phys.org does its readers a disservice by not fact checking the Nature study and examining other possible causes for its conclusions. Instead of a thoughtful scientific examination of the novel…
Media Outlets Shill for Climate Risk Firm, Despite No Evidence Showing Climate Change Threatens Homes
It seems strange that media outlets are flocking to white knight for First Street, and save its reputation. They are not the only company that does these kinds of “climate…
From Storm to Scare Story: How The Guardian Wrongly Claimed Climate Change Caused a ‘Climate Breakdown’
By implying that a heartbreaking family tragedy is proof of global climate collapse, The Guardian irresponsibly misleads its readers, substituting emotional persuasion and advocacy with scientific rigor. Readers deserve factual reporting complete…