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…
Category: Bad science journalism
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.
No, Washington Post, ‘Carbon Pollution’ Isn’t Making Food Less Healthy
The Washington Post has taken a modest statistical decline in select minerals and inflated it into a planetary health crisis. That is not balanced reporting. Their readers deserve better.
Alarmist Fussing at NYT Climate Reporting
Credit Trump with a sea change in the whole climate/energy issue. The Progressive Left is playing defense. And nerves are fraying in the face of pragmatism and the mere appearance…
Quit Fearmongering, San Francisco Chronicle, Climate Change Isn’t Coming for Cabernet
…a disservice to the San Francisco Chronicle’s readers, misrepresenting the true state of Cabernet production and its prospects in an attempt to advance the false narrative that climate change is dooming…
Not All Temperature Records Are Equal
And some records are being used to hype normal temperature variability in unfortunate ways.
No, USA Today, ‘Day After Tomorrow’ AMOC Collapse Isn’t Happening
The AMOC is complex. It has fluctuated for millennia. It may weaken modestly over this century under certain emissions scenarios. That is not the same as a Hollywood-style catastrophe.
Sorry, Los Angeles Times, Climate Change Isn’t Driving Georgia’s Wildfires
The LAT writes that “wildfires are becoming more intense, frequent and damaging in the East, such as last week’s blaze that destroyed dozens of homes in Georgia, fire scientists said.”
Wrong, AP, Wildfires Have Always Burned at Night
The AP’s story does not represent accurate reporting. It is climate narrative reinforcement layered on top of selective data and incomplete history. The Associated Press should be ashamed to foist…
Give it a Rest George Monbiot: Decades of Hysterical Climate and Net Zero Fearmongering Have Left You Terminally Confused
Few mainstream media operations seek to provide a balanced debate on climate change and Net Zero, but those that do such as Talk and GB News struggle to find opposing…
Wrong, The Independent, the Atlantic Current Isn’t on the Brink of Collapse
The Independent declaring a looming catastrophe based on one modeling study doesn’t represent balanced, informed science reporting. Rather, it is acting as a promoter for an alarming, unlikely climate narrative, which…
AMOC To Collapse–Part 98
But crooked scientists has grant money to earn and far left Guardian hacks have headlines to write. It’s a marriage made in heaven!