Climate Fact-Check June 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...
Wrong, CNN, Attribution Groups Prove Nothing About Extreme Weather and Climate Change
A recent article on CNN relies on the opinion of climate attribution groups, claiming that these groups are able to calculate exactly how much impact climate change has had on various weather events. These...
No, BBC, Flight Turbulence Is NOT a Worsening Problem in Global Aviation
An article on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) website makes the claim that clear air turbulence (CAT) is getting worse, affecting airline flights, and the culprit is climate change. This claim is demonstrably false....
Wrong, Mainstream Media, Climate Change Didn’t Cause Canadian Forest Fires or the Smoke in...
Last week, mainstream media outlets were abuzz with stories claiming that smoke from wildfires in Canada visibly polluting the skies in New York City, Washington, D.C., and many other cities in the northeastern United...
Climate Fact-Check May 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...
Wrong, Washington Post, Climate Change Is Not Driving ‘Arizona’s Water Troubles’
On June 4, 2023, The Washington Post (WaPo) published a story titled “Arizona’s water troubles show how climate change is reshaping the West.” The claim that climate change is the driver behind water issues...
Schooling NPR: Setting the Record Straight on False Climate Narratives
National Public Radio (NPR) recently attributed a destructive fire in Denton, Montana in December 2021 to climate change, saying, “The Great Plains are facing increasing fire risks due to climate change, and efforts are...
No, BANG, The California Coastline Isn’t Going to be “Wiped Out” by Climate Change
A May 30, 2023 article by Hannah Kanik, writing for the Bay Area News Group (BANG), titled “Can California’s coastline be saved? Study shows up to 70% could be wiped out by 2100,” was...
Wrong, The Guardian, Climate Change Isn’t Causing More Climbing Deaths on Mount Everest
An article in The Guardian claims that climate change is killing people on Mount Everest. This is a false. Climate change is not highly localized nor does it occur in a single year. Evidence...
No, AP, A 1.5°C Temperature Rise Won’t Cause “…Death, Destruction and Damage”
A May 17, 2023 story by The Associated Press (AP) climate reporter Seth Borenstein received wide pickup worldwide by multiple media outlets. Titled, "The likelihood that Earth briefly hits key warming threshold grows bigger...