Wrong, Scientific American, Governments Cause Inflation, Not Climate Change
Scientific American republished a story by Climatewire claiming climate change is causing inflation. This is false. Inflation, in the words of Nobel prize winning economist, Milton Friedman, “is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.”...
Climate Fact-Check April 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...
No, Great Britain News, 20°C Temperatures Will Not Cause Britons To ‘Bake in a...
Great Britain News (GBN) which advertises itself as “Britain’s News Channel,” recently ran a story claiming that warm temperatures which are forecast to soon arrive will cause residents of Britain to swelter or bake....
PBS NewsHour Peddles IPCC Propaganda About Extreme Weather and Climate Change
H. Sterling Burnett contributed to this report.
The U.S. Public Broadcasting Service’s (PBS) program, NewsHour, hosted an interview in which they claimed extreme weather, like droughts, floods, hurricanes, and heat waves, are becoming more severe...
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,...
No, Associated Press, Recent Migratory Bird Deaths Are NOT Due to Climate Change
A recent article from The Associated Press (AP) claims that, in New Mexico in 2020, climate change caused rapid switches from heat to cold over just a few days, which when combined with wildfires,...
Washington Post Ignores Data to Claim Summers Are ‘…Hotter, Longer and More Dangerous’
A story in The Washington Post (WaPo), titled “Summer in America is becoming hotter, longer and more dangerous”, By Anna Phillips, Brady Dennis, Jason Samenow, John Muyskens, and Naema Ahmed, claims that compared to...
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...
Idaho Statesman Hypes Climate Alarm Over Facts Concerning Temperatures and Precipitation in Idaho
A recent article in the Idaho Statesman claims climate change has led to a dramatic increase in temperatures and a decline in precipitation. Neither claim is accurate. Data show Idaho was as hot or...
The 2022 Heatwave Debunked!
Guest Post by William Balgord
The US Environmental Protection Agency publishes information in graphical form (see below) purporting to show a steady increase in records relating to heat waves as having occurred from 1960 to...