Climate Fact-Check February 2026

This compilation serves as a fact check on the top false claims made about climate change by the media in February, 2026.

No more ‘Great Reset.’  It’s now the ‘Great Retreat’

The “Great Reset” promised a rapid economic transformation. What’s unfolding instead is a quiet unraveling—banks backtracking, companies revising targets, and governments hedging. Behind the rhetoric, reality is forcing a course…

Context and Location Matters, USA Today and Others, Longer Allergy Season Has an Upside

Every year at this time, myriad media outlets run stories on the allergy season and what steps people with allergies can take to alleviate their suffering. In recent years, there…

Climate Assumption Busted: Mega-Volcano, Falling CO₂

New research on the Emeishan large igneous province shows atmospheric CO₂ fell by about 50% during early volcanism, likely driven by increased weathering from crustal uplift, challenging assumptions that large…

Blurring the Past: How Ice Core Physics Undermines ‘Unprecedented’ CO₂ Claims

The truth is, no one can ever know. And this is where the science rubber really hits the road.

Analysis: Is There a Correlation between Earth’s Angular Frequency and Global Warming?

A deep look into an interesting case of “correlation is not causation.”

Where Do We Go From Here? Climate Science at a Crossroads – or perhaps Going Down the Drain?

Climate science will not disappear. But, it may go underground and become a privately funded political tool.

Good News, CBS News Is Dialing Back the Climate Alarmism. Still, Media Matters Complains

If CBS is choosing to prioritize balance over saturation, evidence over narrative coordination, and editorial autonomy over activist alignment, that is not something to lament. It is something to be…

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…

PUT ON NOTICE: The U.S. is Officially Pulling out of the U.N. Climate Cabal

Hasta la vista, boneheads!

RealClear Politics Is Right: The Climate Hoax Is a Massive Financial Scam

If more of the mainstream media had been willing to ask the right questions and lean in on realism instead of green washing, trillions could have been saved from this…

LIVE at 1PM EST – Unlearning Climate Alarmism – The Climate Realism Show #191

An encouraging trend is growing. Bright young people who were convinced of the truth of climate alarmist dogma open their eyes and mind to the actual data on the climate.

Watch LIVE here @ 130PM EST – as Trump Rescinds the CO2 Endangerment Finding

Today at 1:30 PM EST, the Trump administration — with President Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on hand — is set to formally rescind the 2009 EPA “Endangerment…

Study: Massive Abrupt Warming During Past Low-CO₂ Era

A new pollen-based reconstruction study shows Greenland warmed 10–16°C within decades during 11 Dansgaard–Oeschger events between 57,000 and 29,000 years ago, when atmospheric CO₂ was near 200 ppm. These globally…

The Coming Squall

A long-standing pillar of U.S. climate regulation is about to be tested—and the reaction will be explosive. Lawsuits, political theatrics, media frenzy, and strategic end-runs are coming fast. What happens…

False, New York Times, Climate Change Doesn’t Cause Both Extreme Heat and Extreme Cold

Gelles should acknowledge that the scientific expectation in a warming world has long been for fewer cold extremes. Observations largely confirm that expectation. The idea of warming “fueling” cold extremes…

Another Temperature Bias: The Shrinking Stevenson Screen = Warming

By shrinking the Stevenson Screens in such a manner, they made yearly temperatures warmer by 0.54C.

Trump’s Withdrawal from Collapsing Climate Narrative

The curtain is falling on the world’s most expensive soap opera. For decades, a cast of unelected bureaucrats and subsidized academics fought to keep the production alive, but the audience…

Eye-rolling climate science from China

From the “central committee told me to pay lip-service to China’s net-zero pathway” department …

Oh Noes! Climate Change is Messing with the Nitrogen Cycle

Apparently, doom is just around the corner, thanks to climate change messing with the nitrogen cycle.