Guest Post by: The Competitive Enterprise Institute, The Heartland Institute, the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and the International Climate Science Coalition, and Truth in Energy and Climate.
Editor’s note: This summary serves as a fact check on the biggest false claims made in the media in October, 2024.
The monthly Climate Fact Check is intended to correct misinformation constantly spewing from mainstream media. Many of our fact checks focus on correcting the Washington Post. In explaining his decision to not endorse a presidential candidate, Post owner Jeff Bezos wrote this op-ed, excerpted below:
“In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have
regularly fallen near the very bottom… We must be accurate, and we must be believed to
be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most
people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention
to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be
easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline
in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.”
As Bezos noted, “Reality is an undefeated champion.” The Climate Fact Check is our effort to vindicate that statement. Now on to this month fact checks:
Links: NBC News article, get more information.
Links: The New York Times article, get more information.
Links: The Washington Post article.
Links: The Washington Post article, get more information.
Links: The Washington Post article.
Links: The Washington Post article.
Links: Reuters article, Smithsonian report.
Links: The Associated Press article, get more information.
Links: Bloomberg Law article.
Links: CNBC article, The Washington Post article.
We’ll close out this month by spotlighting the annual “Emissions Gap Report” from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The report contained this graph that shows despite much alarmist propaganda and trillions of dollars spent on reducing emissions to below 1990 levels, nothing of the sort has occurred. Emissions have steadily increased since the dawn of climate alarm.
And don’t forget to check out these and more great fact checks:
- No, CBS, Climate Change Will Not Put Chicago at Heightened Risk for Hurricanes
- No, Bloomberg, Climate is Not “Killing Buildings”
- Wrong, The Hill, Climate Change Is Not Causing Emigration
- No Seattle Times, the Top of Mount Rainier Is NOT Shrinking…
- No, Media. Hurricane Helene was not Worsened by Climate Change
- Flash Floods in Spain
- Oops, Science Was “Settled”—Until It Wasn’t: Plants Absorb 31% More CO₂ Than We Thought
- Urban Heat Island Effects Have Not Yet Been Removed from Official GHCN Warming Trends
- Gulf Stream Collapsing Again!
- BBC Claim Hurricanes Are Getting Stronger–IPCC Says They Are Not!
See you in December for the November Climate Fact Check!
Originally posted at JunkScience.com, reposted with permission.
