bad science journalism, Tag

Tough noogies, asthmatics! CNN has officially pinned your breathing tool as the latest climate change threat to the environment.

In the end, E&E News accidentally produced a masterpiece of unintentional self-parody — a story not about science but about the media’s own reflexive obedience.

When it comes to extreme weather, Reuters’ claims are directly contradicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) AR6 report which notes there is little to no attribution of many types of severe weather...

A single city’s pledge to go “carbon neutral” will have absolutely no impact on global warming, but it could limit peoples’ freedoms and undermine its and the surrounding region’s economic fortunes...

Ultimately, the NYT has presented a speculative, model-based estimate as though it were hard evidence of climate catastrophe. The paper neglects the overwhelming toll of cold weather deaths...

The piece frames the research they reference as a legal turning point, arguing that oil producers could now face liability for specific extreme weather events.

The BBC published a story by Scotland editor, James Cook, blaming climate change for low catchment, river, and reservoir levels across the country. A detailed look at actual data shows…

Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather accused the report of misusing his work, calling the process a “farce,”

The AP, WCAX 3, and the study authors are not accurately portraying the true state of the planet. They certainly have no place talking anyone who wants to own dog out of doing so, at least not as a means of preventing climate...

Labour’s rewilding plans risk sparking a surge in wildfires across Britain, gamekeepers have claimed.

The NYT must always remember that the purpose of corrections is to inform the reader of what is actually true, rather than to protect its writers from embarrassment or protect preferred narratives that cannot withstand scrutiny. 

Since coffee production and yields have increased dramatically overtime, it is simply false to link higher coffee prices to climate change induced impacts on production...

Until NBC News is interested in reporting real science, with all its uncertainties and caveats, their climate reporting will remain as stormy as the hurricanes they claim to understand.

Tribune News Service: please stop confusing flash with substance. AI is not a magical oracle of climate truth — it’s a faster, sometimes cheaper way to crunch the same flawed models that have consistently overshot...

The LAT took a complex, decades‑in‑the‑making education problem and tried to pin it on the weather mislabeled as climate change. That’s not journalism, rather it is narrative promotion.