Relax, Roast Magazine, Climate Change Is Not Causing ‘Systemic Shocks’ Harming Coffee Production
Roast Magazine’s Daily Coffee News rans a story claiming climate change was causing “ongoing systemic shocks,” harming coffee production by creating more simultaneous extreme weather events across different growing regions. This is false. Data...
True, Daily Signal, Climate Change Policy Harms Farmers and Food Prices
A recent article in The Daily Signal shows that the fight against climate change is having, and will continue to have, a deleterious impact on farmers and food prices. This unfortunate fact has been...
Dear Financial Times, Maple Syrup Production is Doing Fine
A recent article in Financial Times repeats the often made late-winter/early spring claim that maple syrup production is being threatened by global warming. Available data shows that this claim is as false now as...
Wrong, Business Insider, Climate Change Is Not Making Flying More Dangerous
The Business Insider posted a story recently claiming that climate change is making air turbulence more severe, threating the safety of air passengers. This is false. There is no evidence linking changes in the...
Boston Globe Bites on the Seasonal Allergies Alarm, Ignores the Good News About Global...
For many, the onset of spring brings seasonal allergies in its train. Also, as a story in the Boston Globe demonstrates, spring delivers an annual supply of stories blaming climate change for initiating earlier,...
The Island Packet Misleads on Climate Change and Coastal Housing
A recent article in Hilton Head Island South Carolina’s The Island Packet claims that climate change is making it more hazardous for lower income people to live on the coast, because of increasing storms,...
Wrong, CBC, Canadian Vineyards are Not Threatened by Climate Change
CBC, Canada’s public broadcaster, published a confused article that claims Canadian vineyards are suffering due to climate change, and that genetic engineering is going to be needed in order to help certain grape varietals...
Facts Matter, Nature World News: Coffee Yields Are Growing Amid Climate Change
An article in Nature World News alternately claims climate change has caused or is likely to cause a decline in coffee yields. This is false. Higher carbon dioxide levels do and will continue to act...
Hey, Axios, Try Looking at Real Data; It Shows Ice Sheet Melting is not...
A recent article in Axios claims that the current rate of global ice sheet melting and sea level rise will rapidly accelerate unless global warming is stopped before it reaches 1.5°C. Axios also claims...
No, NBC News, Giving the Ocean Antacids Will Not Help Curb Climate Change
On February 11th, NBC News published a story by writers Kenzi Abou-Sabe, Yasmine Salam, and Cynthia McFadden titled “Can giving the ocean an antacid help curb climate change?,” describing ways to artificially induce the...