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 November 2025.
Climate change NOT making hurricanes or wildfires worse – Calif. Wildfires caused by arson Atlantic Ocean’s “conveyor belt” is NOT on the verge of collapse – Fossil fuels saving lives.
Links: Detroit Free Press article, adjustments of hurricane counts, temperature and cyclone strength.
Links: Communications Earth & Environment article, flurry of headlines, AMOC remaining the same, AMOC speeding up.
Links: Space.com story, State of Wildfires report, NASA data, Science paper, Nature Communications paper.
Links: Governor Newsom comments, arson-fire story, historic wildfires, failure of state government.
Links: The Independent’s article, Aerosol injection, U.N. FAO data.
Links: Al Jazeera article, life expectancy, weather related deaths, crop yields.
Until next month, enjoy these and other great climate fact checks at:
- An Ice Age May Come, New York Post, But If It Does, Ocean Current Collapse Won’t Be the Cause
- Fake News: The BBC Pushes Reef Scare Again
- No, The Independent, Weather Disasters Do Not Threaten Survival in the U.K.
- ABC News: ‘Climate change threatens to make running marathons even harder, research shows’ – Races ‘less likely to have ideal weather on race days by 2045 because of climate change’
- We’re Saved! AP reports that ‘Doctors dance to hip-hop at COP30 to demand a fossil fuel phase-out’!
- Axios: ‘Your Thanksgiving turkey has a carbon footprint’ – ‘A four-ounce turkey serving is the equivalent of nearly three miles’ worth of tailpipe emissions’
