On a simplistic level, summer is when deaths are at their lowest. If heat is killing people in summer, what is killing much larger numbers of them in spring?
Category: Bad science journalism
Wrong, Newswise, Irresponsible Climate Messaging, Not Climate Change Itself, Is Fueling Student Anxiety
The University of Utah study has identified a real problem, but Newswise has the diagnosis backwards.
Wrong, The Independent: A Flood in Fiji Is Weather, Not Proof of a Climate Crisis
That isn’t serious climate journalism. It is advocacy masquerading as reporting.
Issues & Insights Is Right: If Modern Warming Is Driven By Fossil Fuel Use, It Prevented an Ice Age
Regardless of whether human use of oil, gas, and coal are primarily responsible for modern warming, there is no doubt that it is better than what appears to be the…
Madame Otto and Her Computer Crystal Balls
Of course, the precise figures are not based on actual fatality data but are modelled estimates using population numbers and previous historical stats on temperature and summer mortality.
“It’s been 20 years since ‘Inconvenient Truth’ and climate change is still questioned”
It isn’t the climate crisis that needs to be fixed, or the fossil fuel industry that needs to be investigated; it’s the epic level journalism malfeasance which must to be…
Wrong, AP and NPR: Europe’s 50,000 Heat Deaths Are a Computer-Model Estimate, Not a Real Body Count
A model can calculate an estimate, generate a counterfactual, and assign statistical probabilities, but a computer model cannot examine a body, determine a cause of death, sign a death certificate,…
No, Telegraph, Puffins Are Not Going Extinct
The difference between Skomer and the North Sea is not climate change – after all, seas around South Wales are much warmer than in the North Sea.
CBC’s “Climate Change” False Spook Story About Canadian Pumpkin Harvests Is All Trick and No Treat
Data provides no reason for Canadians to fear that pumpkins in Labrador and Newfoundland, nor Canada more generally, and definitely not globally, are endangered by climate change.
No, New York Times, California’s Climate Has Always Been a Land of Flood, Drought, and Fire
The lesson of California history is not that nature was once benign and humans somehow broke it. The lesson is that California has never been climatically benign.
The New York Times Shows Democrats How To Run On “Energy Affordability”
It’s easy — by focusing on emotional stories that in reality have nothing to do with “skyrocketing” energy prices, and by leaving out (or lying about) all the key facts.
A Tenth of a Degree of Separation. AP Turns 0.1°C in 2100 into the Amazon, Greenland and $1.2 Trillion
The tenth in this story will never face a thermometer anyway. It is the gap between two model projections of 2100, one with an American promise and one without. Only…
No, Climate Change Is Not ‘Gentrifying’ Seafood, New York Times
The most frustrating thing about articles like this, is the mixing of truth with exaggeration, where the New York Times and other outlets like it will choose to amplify the…
Wrong, TIME, Climate Change Is Not ‘Accelerating Faster Than We Can Respond’
The climate is changing slowly. Humanity is adapting rapidly. The world is not coming to an end. The only thing accelerating uncontrollably in TIME’s article is the rhetoric.
What We’ve Got Here Is Failure to Air Condition. Futurism Blames Climate Change for Hot Prisons
Afternoons that haven’t warmed and nights that have is the pattern you get from development around the thermometers, more than from anything happening to the sun or the sky.
Wrong, Media: Penguins Thriving or Dying, Climate Change Gets Blamed Either Way
The BBC reports that Antarctica’s gentoo penguins are “flourishing with climate change,” while CBS News reports that an iconic chinstrap penguin colony has suffered a “population collapse” driven by climate…
Seattle Times Story on Skagit Flooding and Global Warming is Clearly Wrong
The Seattle Times Climate Lab runs a story claiming global warming will create a dangerous situation. A story that is factually incorrect or grossly exaggerated. And it happened again yesterday…
Euronews Is Wrong, Climate Change Is NOT The Biggest Threat to Tourism
Just because weather and transit disruptions in some locations can cause tourists to modify their vacation choices, does not mean that climate change is a huge threat to tourism.
Costa Blame Financial Woes On Climate Change!
What the Telegraph has failed to tell its readers is that Brazilian coffee production always features big swings from year to year.