Sorry, Guardian and Reuters, Island Nations Have No Climate Case
The Guardian and Reuters, along with other mainstream media outlets and news services, are covering a “landmark” hearing in a case a group of small island nations are bringing to have carbon dioxide emissions...
Ramaswamy, Not The Washington Post, Is Right About Climate Deaths
The Washington Post (WaPo) ran a so-called fact check on presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s claim during the recent Republican debate that “The climate change agenda is a hoax … The reality is more people...
Thanks, Washington Post, for Demonstrating There is No Climate Change/Wine Apocalypse
The Washington Post (WaPo) ran a story bemoaning the fact that France has produced more wine than wine drinkers are demanding, resulting in French wine producers destroying large volumes of wine. This is a...
Media Spews Misinformation About Emperor Penguins’ Breeding Failure
Editors note: Many news outlets fell for this flawed science paper and didn't bother to check facts before publishing news stories claiming the penguins will become extinct by 2100.
Guest essay By Jim Steele
The recently...
MSNBC Is Wrong About Extreme Weather Increases and Adaptation
A story posted on MSNBC by Kate Marvel, Ph.D., asserts both that climate change is worsening extreme weather events and making it weirder, and for the latter reason, adaptation to climate change is not...
Florida Phoenix Dismisses the Threat to the U.S. Power Grid
Writing for the Florida Phoenix (The Phoenix), a “progressive” paper from Tallahassee Florida, environmental “journalist,” Craig Pittman mocks warnings from power grid operators who say shutting down coal and other fossil fuel power plants...
No, THE WEEK, Antarctica is Not a ‘Bellwether’ for Climate Change
The headline of August 14th article in THE WEEK, distributed by MSN News, was “How Antarctica has become the enduring climate change bellwether.” The claim is false, being based not on peer reviewed science...
After a False Start, Mainstream Media Largely Reports Accurately on Maui Wildfire
As has become a far too common knee jerk reaction as natural disasters occur, mainstream media outlets, like Bloomberg and the Los Angeles Times, for example, were quick to blame climate change for the Maui wildfire and...
Climate Fact-Check July 2023 Edition
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...
Sorry, Washington Post, Climate Change Isn’t Worsening Hurricanes, but Storm-Resilient Military Bases Make Sense
By Linnea Lueken and H. Sterling Burnett
A recent article in The Washington Post (WaPo), titled “As climate change worsens, military eyes base of the future on Gulf Coast,” writes that a military base that...