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 August 2025.
Debunking the latest unscientific fearmongering on hurricanes, wildfires, the Great Barrier Reef, ‘heat stress’, doomed bananas, & the alleged invasion of fire ants!
Links: WGRZ-TV report, rapid intensification definition, Klotzbach et al. 2022, ocean circulation cycle.
Links: X (Twitter) post, water storage decline, paleoclimate drought data, Medieval megadrought.
Links: Geophysical Research Letters papers from April and August, CMIP5 model predictions.
Links: BBC News, CNN, coral cover record, AIMS report.
Links: Florida Today article, arrival of fire ants history.
Links: France 24 report, Copernicus data, previous fires.
Links: TIME Magazine article, UN FAO data.
Links: Climate Central post, NOAA data.
Until next month, enjoy these and other great climate fact checks at:
- Wrong, New York Times, Climate Change Isn’t Causing a Surge in Mosquito-Borne Diseases
- No, WCAX 3, Owning a Dog Is NOT a “Wrong Climate Choice”
- Wrong, Los Angeles Times, Declining Academic Rigor Is Responsible for Falling Test Scores, Not Climate Change
- HEARTLESS: New Study examines the ‘carbon emission analysis of aortic valve replacement’
- AP: ‘People often make wrong climate choices, a study says. One surprise is owning a dog’ – ‘Dogs are big meat eaters, & meat is a significant contributor to climate change’
- Worried about how ‘climate change’ will impact you in the year 3025?!
- ‘AI model simulates 1,000 years of the current climate in just one day’ & ‘The model has a much lower carbon footprint’
- The New York Times Publishes False Energy and Climate Information and Refuses to Correct Its Errors
- New Study: Corals Thrived In Warmer-Than-Today Temps and When Sea Levels Were Meters Higher
- Guardian: “A climate of unparalleled malevolence”: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?
Originally posted at Junkscience.com. Reposted with permission.
Presented by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), The Heartland Institute, Energy & Environment Legal Institute, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), and Truth in Energy and Climate.
