“Habitat loss is the main threat to red panda’s survival. Human expansion into the area, combined with the effects of climate change, has led to the fragmentation and loss of…
Category: Bad science journalism
Sad, @wapo Does Anything for a Headline – ‘Climate change is altering the smell of snow’
We’ve seen all sorts of media claims about climate change. Some are doomsday scenarios, others claim your favorite holiday food will be threatened, while others try to link nearly every weather event to…
Wrong Again, Atlantic, High Lumber Prices Are Not Being Caused by ‘Climate Change’
The recent spike in lumber prices is due to the post-pandemic supply chain and shipping bottlenecks. The already climbing prices were exacerbated by the destruction of infrastructure like roads and…
BOMBSHELL: In court filing, Facebook admits ‘fact checks’ are nothing more than opinion
Facebook has admitted in a court of law that such fact checks are not factual at all, but merely opinions. People send me stuff. As we have previously reported, journalist…
Three Things Not Caused by Climate Change
From the constant flood of news stories that pour into my inbox and various feeds, I can add three more things to that list – things falsely or erroneously claimed…
Factchecking BBC’s “Reality Check”
We know that climate sceptics are no longer allowed on the BBC, but if they want to know what sceptics think, why did not the BBC actually ask some of…
Friday Funny – BONUS edition
When media worlds collide, “climate change” style. One wonders if Geoffry Lean or Sir David King have headed there to live yet. Inquiring minds want to know. Here are the…
Scary Halloween Cartoons – Global Warming in the Gulf of Maine
. Each of these cartoons predicts coming disaster (calamity) for Gulf of Maine fisheries. Readers will have already guessed that the reasons for the are Climate Change and Rising CO2.
Flawed Heatwave Report Leads to False Headlines in Major Media
A failure that misinformed you and millions of others, and a failure that highlighted glaring weaknesses in the media’s ability to cover important scientific issues. And it revealed the disappointing…
Major Media FAIL on Reporting the Pacific Northwest Heatwave
The headline in E&E News, WOWT-TV, Scientific American, WorldNewsNetwork, and other media outlets this week, “Unprecedented Heat Wave in Pacific Northwest Driven by Climate Change” couldn’t possibly be more unscientific. With absolutely no analysis, no…
Serious Error of Physics in Recent GRL paper Loeb et al on Earth’s ‘unprecedented heat retention’
Submitted to Geophysical Research Letters, 6/21/21. Published here at the request of the author. Howard C. Hayden1 1Prof. Emeritus of Physics, UConn, now in Pueblo West, Colorado (corkhayden@comcast.net) 1. Introduction…
Wild Exaggeration and Egregious Lies
“But if seas rise 20 feet or more over the next 100 to 200 years—which is our current trajectory—the outlook is grim. In that scenario, there could be two feet…
Turning Opinion into Science Fact
“The 1.5 degrees C limit wasn’t plucked from thin air—it was informed by the best available science. Between 2013 and 2015, an extensive United Nations review process determined that limiting…
The Climate Propaganda Cabal
“For God’s sake, do not platform climate denialists. … there is no longer any good faith argument against climate science—and if one accepts the science, one also accepts the imperative…
The Supermoon and SLR
“Right now, we’re in the phase of an 18.6-year lunar cycle that lessens the moon’s influence on the oceans. The result can make it seem like the coastal flooding risk…
This was written by a meteorologist?
Guest “I’ve lost track of how many things this guy got wrong” by David Middelton WEATHER Humans are causing climate change: It’s just been proven directly for the first time…
Video: Don’t let the “Climate Grinches” ruin your holiday
A few days ago, the Washington Post ran a story that ranks as one of their worst-ever in terms of climate change alarmism. Titled “How climate change is complicating a…
You’ve heard of ‘fake news’? Now we have ‘fake weather’
New scary (but bogus) weather term from the left-leaning media: “heat storm” comes from the Star Wars movie, but doesn’t happen on Earth Climate Depot has this story today: Introducing…
A rebuttal to the Washington Post’s smear of David Legates appointment to NOAA
Guest opinion by Joseph L. Bast The Washington Post’s coverage of David Legates’ appointment to a position with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is hopelessly biased and inaccurate,…
The Dangers of Narrative Journalism
“Some Narrative Journalism Concerns: One of the biggest worries editors and publishers have about narrative journalism is that because it’s a blend of facts and feelings, problems can occur. Recently,…
The Media is Now Opinion-Checking
Today, university campuses are the locus of a new, and sadly misguided movement, the Anti-Free Speech Movement. Some refer to it as “Cancel Culture”, which is ill-defined, but in essence,…
NY Times Fakes a Climate Change Debate
In an exhibition of astounding audacity, the New York Times’ Editor of the Climate Desk, Hannah Fairfield, stages what is billed as a “debate” about moving forward with solutions to…
This Week’s Disasters, Climate Change and the Pandemic
Guest News Brief by Kip Hansen — 24 May 2020 The New York Times has an amusing feature called the Climate Section. It has a neat newsletter (called ClimateFwd:…
@CNN hits peak stupid, taps @GretaThunberg for #COVID19 panel
From the YGBFKM department comes this…this…thing. No words. Beyond parody: CNN taps Greta Thunberg for expert coronavirus panelby Brad Polumbo, Washington Examiner The brave, hard-hitting journalists over at CNN are…
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