USA Today’s readers deserve better than speculative headlines built on hypothetical futures. They deserve reporting grounded in observed data, historical context, and the recognition that climate models are tools for…
Category: Bad science journalism
BBC Peddle Fake Heatwave Deaths Claims
Unlike these shysters, I am going wait until the actual mortality data is available, which is generally three weeks after the deaths occur – ONS data is for deaths registered,…
No, USA Today, 4th of July Heat was NOT “Climate Change.”
This USA Today article is an embarrassing example of journalistic negligence and demonstrates a lack of understanding about weather history and how record-setting works when 365 days of an entire…
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.
BREAKING: Trump Admin Hires Skeptic to Run National Climate Assessment…Mann Clutches Pearls
Scrutiny of a government assessment by someone inclined to question it is not a threat to the science. It is a stress test.
Has Climate Change Stolen Scientific Curiosity?
When we turn to consider the recent heatwave that affected Europe at the end of June, we see a marked temperature anomaly around the coast of Iberia, in Biscay and…
PBS News Is Wrong, Climate Change Is Not Causing Georgia’s Drought
The PBS “journalists” should be ashamed of the slant of this coverage. They offered no pushback whatsoever on the suggestion that Georgia’s drought was unprecedented or part of a pattern…
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…
Wrong, Bloomberg, Climate Change Has Boosted Food Production and Lowered Prices, Not the Opposite
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…
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…