Guest Post by: The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, The Heartland Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, 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 October 2025.
Debunking false claims about disappearing islands, coral reefs, hot cities, monsoons, & hurricanes!
Links: Reuters article, megadrought data, Renaissance Drought data, data from the 1920s and 1940s.
Links: Phys.org post, Historical monsoon data, beneficial monsoon claims, Gondwana Research study.
Links: The Guardian article, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology study.
Links: The Hill article, fertilizer runoff, exposure to ultraviolet radiation, localized sea level change, 2019 Nature paper, Great Barrier Reef coral cover.
Links: Al Jazeera’s article, Tuvalu land area.
Links: NBC Connecticut article, Climate Shift Index, 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, Atlantic basin data, Nature Communications data, IPCC AR6.
Links: Inside Climate News article, USDA data on Wisconsin, USDA data on Massachusetts.
Until next month, enjoy these and other great climate fact checks at:
ClimateRealism.com
• Tell the Truth, The Guardian and NBC, High Weather Disaster Costs Aren’t Due to Climate Change
• Coral Recoveries and Growth Show The Hill Is Misleading About Global Warming Killing Reefs
• False, Yahoo News, Cape Coral Isn’t Sinking
ClimateDepot.com
• Wash Post frets about ‘Your diet’s impact on the planet’ – Demands you watch your ‘Carbon Hoofprint’ & avoid beef
• The Trump Effect = UN COP FLOP! 100 countries stall on ‘climate targets’ ahead of COP30 — As Trump is pushing world leaders to abandon the climate fight
• STOP BREATHING, ASTHMATICS: CNN Rails Against ‘Climate Pollution from Inhalers’ – ‘Substantial contributors to planet-warming pollution’
Wattsupwiththat.com
• Bill Gates Walks It Back: Disaster Isn’t Imminent
• Shock New Report Lays Out the Full Scale of Environmental Damage Caused by Onshore Wind Turbines
• Antarctic Amundsen-Scott Station Sees Coldest October in 44 Years…Mainstream Media Silent!
Originally posted at JunkScience.com, reposted with permission.
