Observed data show expanding vegetation, not disappearing grasslands. Claims of a climate-driven grassland collapse is just another speculative climate disaster fairy tale presented as fact. Earth.org got their facts badly…
Category: Bad science journalism
No, New York Times, Climate Change Isn’t Driving Inflation
The New York Times frames climate change as an emerging inflationary force poised to accelerate, but observational economic record refutes any such economy-wide climate-driven inflation trend. Weather anecdotes, modeling projections, and…
Media Say, ‘Climate Change’ Caused the Deadly Lake Tahoe Avalanche. They’re Wrong.
Declaring each avalanche is evidence of “climate collapse,” despite avalanches being common or at least not unusual, throughout history, even when temperatures were cooler and atmospheric greenhouse gas levels were…
No, Earth.com, Climate Change Isn’t Causing Dangerous Fungus Outbreaks
Presenting overhyped projections about future infections as if it represented an ongoing global fungal expansion is lying, not reporting and certainly not trustworthy journalism. Earth.com should be ashamed of framing…
Wrong, Oceanographic Magazine, Sea Level Rise in Hawaii Is Not a Looming Catastrophe
Oceanographic Magazine conflates global statistics, public anxiety, and local coastal management into a single storyline of impending doom. The actual sea level measurements at Honolulu report relatively slow sea level rise.…
Climate Change is Not Going to Cost Colorado Billions, Colorado Sun
A recent Colorado Sun article claims that climate change could cost the state up to $37 billion due to high temperature extremes and drought. This is false, built almost entirely on speculative…
Wrong, Inside Climate News, Climate Change Isn’t Worsening Wildlife Viruses in New Jersey
The story admits the outbreaks have no clear, consistent environmental trigger in the data, then pivots to climate change anyway, making this irresponsible reporting on a dangerous pathogen.
Wrong, The Week, Climate Change Didn’t Shrink U.S. Paychecks
By presenting modeled counterfactuals as if they were observed declines in pay, The Week misleads readers about both climate impacts and economic reality. Actual wage data show Americans earning more, not less,…
Right, New York Times, Scientists Do Disagree on The Polar Vortex
There is a lot of debate and nuance with regard to these issues that The New York Times’ readers would probably benefit from hearing about, if only the paper would provide balanced coverage…
Climate Slump: Bezos boots global warming coverage! Wash Post Fires 14 of 19 ‘Climate’ reporters – Paper had ‘climate solutions’ reporters touting ‘human hair’ clothing to save the earth
Does this mean we will have fewer stories from the Post about how human hair clothing can save the Earth?! What will happen to the team of Washington Post ‘climate…
No, Al-Jazeera, Climate Change Hasn’t Altered African Flood and Drought Patterns
By presenting interviews and moment-in-time scenes as confirmation of a continent-wide climate verdict, Al Jazeera is misleading its audience by making a causal connection where data show none. Africa’s vulnerability…
Sorry, Los Angeles Times, Coastal Highway 1 Has Always Suffered from Weather, Not Climate
The LAT seems to be blaming climate change for the natural dangers posed to Highway 1 because of its placement along an extremely active coastline. California’s history is littered with…
Argentine Cherry Crops are Fine, The Cool Down
The Cool Down doesn’t seem to understand what farmers throughout time have known: weather is fickle, with floods and droughts all too common. Nothing has changed in this regard. A…
“Storm” Chandra
While the US struggles with some really stormy weather, the increasingly pathetic Met Office try to whip up hysteria with so-called “Strom Chandra”.
Wrong, Mainstream Media, A Brief 1.4°C Global Temperature Spike Isn’t Evidence of ‘Climate Doom’
By portraying a model-reconstructed temperature figure as proof that the world is on the brink of irreversible climate danger, both Politico and NPR are grossly misleading their readers by flatly…
The Brain Microplastics Claim and the Collapse of Scientific Restraint
…the episode will stand as another example of how easily scientific restraint is abandoned when a frightening story is available for the telling.
False and Absurd: The BBC’s Fantasy of Climate-Driven Pay Cuts
By presenting speculative modeling as real-world loss, BBC Science Focus misleads readers into believing climate change is already draining their paychecks. The data say otherwise. The United States has become…
No, CBS News, Recent Temperatures Didn’t Surpass a ‘Critical Climate Mark’
By treating a short-term temperature blip as proof that a “critical climate change mark” has been breached, CBS/AP misleads readers about how climate science actually works. The 1.5°C figure is…
Another Confusing Story Highlights Why Climate Hysteria and Far-Left Media Are Reaching Their End
It never occurs to the far-left (formerly mainstream) media that its demise might be attributable to more than economic factors or the rise of the internet. Just as important is…