bad science journalism, Tag

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.

What are the chances the elite media will give the new Lancet publication the same about of attention it gave the bogus study?

These repetitive, formulaic “Region X warming twice as fast as global average” headlines aren’t helping to educate the public about global warming, it really is just statistical sensationalism...

Never before have both public policy and public messaging been this coordinated and effective at pushing back against the alarmist narrative. We’ll break it all down.

Yesterday, the New York Times ran a story that was blatantly false, with the Seattle Times featuring it as well. 

The facts show that fire ants spread explosively in the 1940s through 1970s northward from the coasts, during a period when the Earth was modestly cooling, decades before “global warming” became a household term...

However, there is no real-world data showing such disasters are becoming more common or deadly, or any indication whatsoever that human greenhouse gas emissions cause or contribute to them...

The BBC might like to consider that none of these villages were there three hundred years ago because the glaciers were there instead.

Instead of beginning with the assumption that climate change is making flooding worse in places like Durban, scientists should approach the issue more modestly...