Media Misrepresents Study Showing Cold Related Deaths Outnumber Heat Related Deaths Ten-to-One
A news release sent to media yesterday via the science press channel known as Eurekalert has been getting coverage, but not for the right reason. Eurekalert’s release, titled “5 million deaths a year caused...
Climate Related Deaths Are 99% Lower Than 1920
It's no secret that the media overhypes climate change. This leads some to believe that more and more people are dying of climate related deaths every year. This is simply not the case. In...
Wrong, U.N. and Bloomberg, Climate Change Is Not Making Weather or Immigration Worse
A Bloomberg News story reports U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called on developed countries to transfer green technologies to developing countries because rich nations have caused catastrophic climate change, imposing costs on poorer nations....
That’s Right, Wall Street Journal, Deaths Related to Temperatures Are Declining
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an article reporting that in the lead up to the 27th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 27) in Egypt, climate...
Multiple Outlets Admit “Catastrophe” Narrative is Counterproductive
After the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest Synthesis Report, multiple media outlets cautioned their peers against leaning too far into the catastrophe narrative, as it might be counterproductive for...
No, Climate Change Does Not Cause Cancer
Among the top articles in a May 19 Google News search for “climate change” were a slew of articles claiming climate change causes cancer. CNBC and several other major news outlets published the claims,...
Climate Facts Unwelcome at Wellcome, Climate Change Benefitting Not Harming Health
The London-based charitable foundation, Wellcome, published a report claiming climate change poses a global public health threat. This is false. Contrary to the Wellcome’s report, data show deaths related to extreme weather events and...
Media Champions College Staffers Urging Fake ‘Climate’ Death Certificates
Five college employees in Australia published a letter in the medical journal Lancet demanding medical doctors list climate factors like heat more often as a person’s cause of death. The authors observed that death...
Business Insider’s Climate Crisis/COVID-19 Link Debunked, Again!
Business Insider has published an article titled, “Climate change is only going to make health crises like coronavirus more frequent and worse.” In reality, scientific evidence shows global warming is likely to reduce the...
No, USA Today, Heat Waves Are Not the “Top Weather-Related Killer”
A story in the September 12 edition of USA Today, titled “California becomes first US state to begin ranking extreme heat wave events,” erroneously claimed that excessive heat is the top weather-related killer in...