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 top false claims made about climate change by the media in July 2025.
Debunking the Vanilla ice cream climate apocalypse – Countering claims of climate ‘supercharging’ wildfires – Texas floods are the ‘new normal’?! – Plus a reality check on claims ‘fossil fuels are sabotaging’ the economy.
Links: Frontiers for Plant Science study, media coverage, FAO stats, vanilla flavoring.
Links: Grist article, GFED link, land burned data, University of Melbourne study, European Space Agency data.
Links: NPR story, rainfall trend in Texas, UN IPCC, flooding trend.
Links: CBS Boston story, National Weather Service data.
Links: What a ‘100 year flood’ is, USGS river data.
Links: Associated Press story.
Links: NBC News report, IPCC’s Sixth Assessment, hail measurements.
Links: Guterres speech, GDP data.
Until next month, enjoy these and other great climate fact checks at:
- Climate Change Is Reducing, Not Increasing Food Costs, Mainstream Media
- Check Your Facts, Reuters, Mediterranean Wildfires Aren’t Unusual Historically, No Reason to Blame Climate Change
- Al Jazeera Wrongly Hypes a Climate Connection to Recent European Heatwaves
- Microsoft Wants Your Poop to Lower Its Emissions’ – Seeks to ‘store human waste underground’ to offset ‘carbon footprint’ & ‘combat climate change’
- Here we go again! ‘Only 3 years left – new study warns the world is running out of time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change’
- CNN analyst admits ‘Americans AREN’T afraid of climate change!’ – ‘Climate activists have not successfully made the case to the American people!’
- Rebuttal to: ‘2023 Marine Heatwaves Unprecedented and Potentially Signal a Climate Tipping Point’
- Texas Flood Hysteria: Media’s Climate Blame Drowned by History and Data
- Turns Out Americans Really Don’t Care About Climate Change After All
Originally posted at Junkscience.com, reposted with permission.
I always look forward to the Climate Change Fact Check!