This increase in food production has occurred even as the number of people and the amount of land devoted to growing crops has declined. Fewer people, farming less land, producing…
Category: Bad science journalism
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…
Climate Media’s Problem? Guess Again
Climate alarmism and forced energy transformation is a losing argument now that the dust has settled. Exaggeration backfires, and here-and-now issues matter, not wasteful climate policies that do not and…
Rice, CO₂, and the Climate Story the Media Keep Missing
The combination of human innovation, agricultural modernization, and the fertilization effect of rising atmospheric CO₂ has helped create a world that produces far more food than it did a half…
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…
Politico’s Climate News Site Shutters A Year After Gov’t Turned Off Taxpayer Spigot
Department of the Interior Press Secretary Charlotte Taylor told the DCNF in June 2025 that E&E News is a “desperate outlet” that solely reports on “leaks from government agencies and even high school…
No, New York Times, Climate Change Is Not Making Tennis Players Ill
The NYT’s desperation to turn a story about players losing matches due to illness or the intensity of the game in tough conditions into a climate change story just goes…
Quit Lying WPLN, Evidence Proves Black Bears Are Thriving, Not Threatened by Climate Change
Since modest warming over the past hasn’t made habitat and ecological conditions worse for bears in Tennessee, but rather has improved such conditions, contributing to a growing population, climate change…
Wrong, Daily Mail, The Thwaites Glacier Isn’t About to ‘COLLAPSE’
The DM’s tone implies the inevitability of collapse. But that’s wrong.
Wrong, BBC, No ‘Climate Driven Millisecond Earth Rotation Crisis’ Exists
Framing a millisecond-scale variation as “unprecedented” planetary destabilization represents a a textbook example of taking a measurable but trivial geophysical adjustment and inflating it into a symbolic crisis. It is…
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…
Claim: Michigan Tornadoes Linked to Climate ChangeRobert Vislocky, Ph.D.
No historical tornado data was presented and no climate scientists were interviewed.
Claim: Climate Change Increases Risk of Snakebites
Direct from the manual of “let’s run models and scare the world without checking actual data” is this recent piece from our favorite fear mongering news outlet, The Guardian, titled…
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, Sky News, Human-Caused Climate Change Isn’t to Blame for the Alaskan Megatsunami
Climate change and glacial retreat have always occurred, but media overuse of the former term conflates natural shifts with supposed human-caused change. This has made it difficult, if not impossible,…
Flipping Out in a Warming World
Of course the news media swarmed all over the article like a fly to honey and pimped up the scare. Check out some of the dire headlines below:
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…
“Masculine Behavior Bad for the Planet,” Says Phys.org. We Read the Paper.
It converts substantive disagreement with the consensus framing into a personality defect, a gender pathology, specifically.
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.