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...
Slate Shows It Doesn’t Understand the Difference Between Weather and Climate
An article in Slate suggests that the fact that some locations have experienced winter weather events this year that are unusual for them, is evidence climate change is causing weird weather. This is false....
Thanks, Los Angeles Times and The Seattle Times, for Admitting Recent California Weather is...
The Los Angeles Times and The Seattle Times posted articles reporting that scientists are acknowledging recent weather conditions on the west coast, including swings from drought to atmospheric rivers causing flooding, are natural for...
Top Ten Climate Fact Check, 2022 in Review
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
Editor's note: This summary serves as a...
Contra Yahoo News, “Weather Whiplash” is not Threatening Autumn Weather
A Google news search for the term “climate change” turns up a Yahoo News article claiming that autumn weather is disappearing, and is being replaced with an abrupt change from hot summer temperatures to...
Despite ‘End of Snow’ Predictions by The New York Times, Ski Resorts are Booming
Back in 2014, The New York Times (NYT) ran an opinion piece by Porter Fox, titled "The End of Snow?"
Fox, who in addition to being an avid skier, also opined on the climatological...
Sorry, WQAD, Data Shows Climate Change Is Not Making Storms Worse
WQAD ran a story reporting climate models predict climate change will make various types of weather events worse, titled “Climate change is spiking frequency, intensity of severe weather.” The story is misleading in couple...
Poll Shows Maryland Residents Don’t Know Climate Facts; Thanks, Baltimore Sun, for Misleading Them
A recent survey of Maryland residents' thoughts about climate change found that the majority of Marylanders believe that climate change is having some degree of present negative effect; through the weather, on sea levels,...
NBC Relies on Bad Science to Scare Viewers
This morning NBC News aired a segment discussing a study from researchers at the University of Waterloo who claim that the winter Olympics may be almost impossible to hold due to global warming by...
No, Climate Change Is Not ‘Straining Budgets’ in Colorado Towns
The Colorado Sun published a misleading and scientifically deficient article titled, “The high cost of climate change is already straining the budgets of Colorado towns.” To reach that conclusion, the article ignored real-world climate...