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 compilation serves as a fact check on the most widespread false claims made about climate change by the media in June, 2026.
Exposing false climate claims about alleged ‘looming’ catastrophe, Antarctica, heatwaves, & food production
Links: Reuters, The Independent, ocean-atmospheric oscillation, University of Alabama Huntsville data.
Links: Futurism article, The Guardian story, observational data, low temperature record, “banana belt.”
Links: X post, excess heat deaths data, extreme cold data, The Lancet research paper.
Links: Bloomberg story, FAO data, CO2 fertilization effect, yield boost data, growing seasons, world hunger data, IPCC comments.
Links: The Washington Post article, attribution study.
Until next month, enjoy these and other great climate fact checks at:
ClimateRealism.com
• No, The Conversation, the AMOC Doesn’t Have an Image Problem. It Has a Credibility Problem
• Wrong, ScienceAlert: Sea Level ‘Acceleration’ Isn’t What the Measured Data Show
• No, New York Times, Climate Change Is Not Making Tennis Players Ill
ClimateDepot.com
• UN climate agency warns of ‘slower’ games due to ‘extreme heat during the World Cup
• Physicist Dr. Will Happer warned the world has been taken in by ‘the climate madness of a pseudo-scientific doomsday cult’
• Mayor of Paris rejects installing AC in homes: ‘Individual air conditioning is a scourge’ – Instead urges ‘cooling collective spaces’
Wattsupwiththat.com
• It’s Summer Again, So Media Tees-Up Another Round of ‘Heat Dome’ Mania
• Here Comes the Super Mega Ultimate Hyper Giga Godzilla El Niño
• The Moist-Adiabatic Theory vs. Reality
Download this report as a PDF, here.
Useful to see the month’s claims pulled together in one place with the underlying data right next to them. This kind of monthly review does more for honest debate than another opinion piece would.