Media Push Debunked Claim Climate Change Worsening Floods, Droughts

A recent article published by The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS) claims that “floods and droughts are worsened by climate change.” Various lines of evidence and hard data falsify this claim. The article, originally by Isabella O’Malley, of the Associated…

Parasites And Pesticides, Not Climate Change, Killing Honeybee Colonies

UPI News posted an article that claims that deadly parasites, diseases, pesticides, and climate change are killing honeybee colonies across the United States. This is only partially true. Parasites, mites, possibly pesticides, and occasional damaging weather events have been linked…

New Study of Triassic Fossils Reveal the Origins of Living Amphibians Through a Tiny “Funky Worm”

For 3 years, paleontologists working in Petrified Forest National Park have been unearthing the remains of perhaps the oldest known amphibian. It’s not a frog, nor a salamander, but the early-Triassic version of what today are called Caecilians: a family of legless, salamander-adjacent, burrowing critters. The fossils extend the record of this small, burrowing amphibian […]

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Data Shows ‘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 being replaced with an abrupt change from hot summer temperatures to frigid early winter. This is false. Cold…

97% Consensus? Survey Shows Only 59% Of Scientists Expect Climate Doom

A new poll of scientists conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson University found that only 59 percent of respondents think global climate change will cause “significant harm” to the “living conditions for people alive today.” That is far short of the “97…

Climate change: possible macroeconomic implications – Bank of England

By Marilena Angeli, Cassandra Archer, Sandra Batten, Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi, Lucio D’Aguanno, Alex Haberis, Theresa Löber, Sarah Maxwell, Rana Sajedi, Michelle van der Merwe, Boromeus Wanengkirtyo and Chris Young from the Bank’s Climate Hub, International Directorate, Monetary Analysis Directorate and Research…

New Study: 96% Of U.S. Climate Data Is Corrupted

A new study, Corrupted Climate Stations: The Official U.S. Surface Temperature Record Remains Fatally Flawed, finds approximately 96 percent of U.S. temperature stations used to measure climate change fail to meet what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) considers to…

Award-Winning Climate Scientists Critique Proposed ‘SEC Climate Rule’

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently proposed requirements for publicly traded companies to disclose information about purported climate-related risks – such as drought, wildfires, heat waves, etc. that could have an impact on their business, as well as…

Seven Ways The Texas Tribune Is All-In On Climate Fearmongering

A recent piece in The Texas Tribune lists seven alleged ways climate change is already impacting the state of Texas and its residents. When not outright false, the listed claims are extremely misleading. Real-world data indicates the state of Texas…

Poll: Voters More Concerned About Gas Prices Than Climate Change

More voters are concerned about rising energy costs than climate change, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll released Monday. Eighty-two percent of likely U.S. voters are “concerned” about rising energy and gasoline prices, including 60 percent who are “very concerned.” [bold,…