Climate Fact-Check June 2026

Editor’s note: This compilation serves as a fact check on the most widespread false claims made about climate change by the media in June, 2026.

California’s Hidden Climate Tax on Everything You Buy

“This state-based agency… is imposing de facto national energy policy.”

Climate Change Weekly # 583—Climate Lawfare Is Flawed, Legal Panel Finds

Legal scholars are becoming increasingly skeptical of the legal merits of climate lawfare: lawsuits filed by cities, states, and individuals to change climate policy through the back door of the…

Climate.gov Rides Again: A Sign That the Climate Debate Is Far From Over

Political fortunes rise and fall. Administrations come and go. Government priorities shift, but the underlying contest over how climate science is interpreted, communicated, and used to justify policy will continue.

Climate Change Weekly # 582—Media’s Interest in Climate Change Is Flagging

Any way you measure it, there is a sharp decline in reporting on climate change. That’s good news for the public, whom the media have misled for decades about the…

The Model That Works

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach at X, my own blog is here.) I’d like to take a moment to discuss some implications of my peer-reviewed paper about my implementation…

Unverified and Unvalidated

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach on X, my personal blog is here) Dear friends, pull up a chair and pour a good strong coffee. Because today’s topic is a…

Climate Fact-Check May 2026

Debunking claims of climate causing ‘less healthy’ food – Melting ice will NOT ‘drown millions’ – Droughts NOT caused by fossil fuels – Earth is NOT spinning slower due to…

Are ‘heat spikes’ becoming more common?

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/clyp513ynv3o Chris Morrison’s excellent piece in the Daily Sceptic today, which I trailed earlier, deals with the corruption of…

Nature Turns Up The Sunshine

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach on X, my personal blog is here) For the usual unknown reasons that are so common in my life, I got to thinking about…

Climate Change Weekly # 581— It’s Hurricane Season, and Nothing Is New

It’s hurricane season again, and a few things about it are as certain as death and taxes. First, some named storms, tropical storms, hurricanes, and cyclones will form somewhere, sometime,…

Climate Change Weekly # 580— Private Climate Cabal Under Investigation

Following Heartland’s recommendations, several states have barred their governments from doing business with institutional investors and mega-asset managers like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard. States such as Texas and Florida…

Ethanol: Not the Energy Transition We’re Looking For

Fuel should be fuel and food should be food. Surely Congress can find a better way to genuinely promote U.S. energy security and boost rural economies without imposing the highly…

Climate Change Weekly # 578— Countries and Industries Are Abandoning or Reducing Net-Zero Commitments

Since the swearing-in of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States, climate alarmism and the political machinations in the public and private sector it spawned have experienced…

Balsa Trees Illegally Logged for Wind Power

Balsa wood is a key component of wind turbines, a near-perfect material for them.

Interesting Field Work: Treetops glowing during storms captured for the first time

It’s nearly invisible to the naked eye but our instruments give rise to a vision of swaths of scintillating corona glowing as thunderstorms pass overhead

Schadenfreude Of the Week: Majority of New York’s Pending Wind and Solar Projects Getting Canceled

It’s the feel-good story of the week, if you don’t mind taking joy from others’ misfortunes. When it comes to the wind and solar energy grifters, I don’t mind a…

Claim: Climate Change is Killing all the Amazon Dung Beetles

That stink at the Belém Climate Conference was climate change, not overloaded toilets.

Claim: Climate change may produce “fast-food” phytoplankton

Model based “chicken of the sea”

Researcher Finds Proof The Met Office is Inflating UK Maximum Temperature Records

But what is worse is that the Met Office does not appear to appreciate the scale of its problem, with higher class sites blighted by unnatural heat sources whether it…