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.
Category: Bad science journalism
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.
Wrong, Los Angeles Times, Climate Change Is Not Turning Nature into a Horror Movie
Nature isn’t staging a revolt against humanity. The LAT is simply staging a clickbait style horror story for its readers, and calling it climate science. That’s probably why it is…
Impossible, Asia Nikkei, Climate Change Can’t Be Harming Indonesian Coffee Production, It Is Setting Records
In the end, the data suggests that Indonesia’s coffee growers have been benefitting from modest climate change, not suffering. Somehow Asia Nikkei, failed to get the memo. Its writers and…
Wrong, TIME, One Nor’easter Isn’t Proof of Climate Change
TIME starts with a storm, asks how climate change made it worse, and then assembles quotations supporting that premise while relegating contradictory evidence to a few sentences. That’s not how…
No, NPR, Climate Change Is Not Challenging New York’s Apple Growers
NPR’s affiliate station in New York is promoting a lot of nonsense in this story, in line with standard climate alarmist propaganda. One bad season for apples on certain farms…
Wrong, Euronews: Climate Change Has Not Created a Food, Energy, and Economic “Meta-Crisis”
Euronews could have investigated those inconvenient facts. Instead, it took a collection of predictions about food, water, migration, geopolitics, and energy, wrapped them together under the fashionable label “meta-crisis,” and called…
Wrong, Guardian, If Humanity Can No Longer ‘Flourish,’ Someone Forgot to Tell Humanity
Humanity should address genuine problems with evidence, technology, adaptation, conservation, and sound policy. But declaring the planetary life support system to be approaching the abyss while people are living longer,…
Wrong, USA Today, “Hottest Summer Ever” Claim Ignores the Most Important Temperature Record
Good climate journalism should do the opposite. It should explain uncertainty, distinguish between adjusted datasets and pristine observations, and recognize that a record based on a few tenths of a…
Sorry, Fortune, Climate Change Is Hardly the Prime Influence on Sardine Fisheries
There is no justification for Fortune to attribute the up and down cycles and recent declines in sardine stocks to climate change, downplaying natural cycles, and more importantly, giving China’s illicit and…
Follow Science, New York Times, Coral’s Are Doing Well Amid Modest Climate Change
In the end, Glabicki and the New York Times went off half-cocked, reporting on a single study’s findings about coral reef conditions without checking them against other sources of data and research…
Wrong, New York Times, Nepal’s Tragedy Wasn’t Caused by Climate Change
The tragedy in Nepal deserves careful scientific investigation, not instant political messaging. Good journalism follows the evidence wherever it leads. In this case, the evidence points first to geology and…
Reform’s Richard Tice Isn’t ‘Out of touch on Climate Change, ITV News Is
Tice is completely correct and deserves praise for standing against climate scolds like those at ITV, who are evidently either scientifically illiterate or don’t care about what data show about…