bad science journalism, Tag

A small victory!!

By presenting modeled counterfactuals as if they were observed declines in pay, The Week misleads readers about both climate impacts and economic reality...

There is a lot of debate and nuance with regard to these issues that The New York Times’ readers would probably benefit from hearing about, if only the paper would provide balanced coverage of the issue, as it did in...

Does this mean we will have fewer stories from the Post about how human hair clothing can save the Earth?! What will happen to the team of Washington Post ‘climate solution’ reporters?! The world of journalism has dramatically...

By presenting interviews and moment-in-time scenes as confirmation of a continent-wide climate verdict, Al Jazeera is misleading its audience by making a causal connection where data show none...

The LAT seems to be blaming climate change for the natural dangers posed to Highway 1 because of its placement along an extremely active coastline. California’s history is littered with examples of seaside infrastructure...

The Cool Down doesn’t seem to understand what farmers throughout time have known: weather is fickle, with floods and droughts all too common. Nothing has changed in this regard. A single bad harvest is not evidence of climate...

While the US struggles with some really stormy weather, the increasingly pathetic Met Office try to whip up hysteria with so-called “Strom Chandra”.

By portraying a model-reconstructed temperature figure as proof that the world is on the brink of irreversible climate danger, both Politico and NPR are grossly misleading their readers by flatly misrepresenting the evidence...

...the episode will stand as another example of how easily scientific restraint is abandoned when a frightening story is available for the telling.

By presenting speculative modeling as real-world loss, BBC Science Focus misleads readers into believing climate change is already draining their paychecks...

By treating a short-term temperature blip as proof that a “critical climate change mark” has been breached, CBS/AP misleads readers about how climate science actually works...

Energies Media seems to have relied on a lot of very outdated information to make their fearmongering claims about Tokelau. If the media outlet was really interested in the facts rather than pushing climate alarmism, it would...

This year might have been warm for the UK, and it is unusual to have so many flower plants in deep winter, but it is hardly evidence of anything breaking down...

So let’s get this straight. Scots pines are suffering in Cambridge, because it is too hot and dry. And that is supposed to mean they will die off in the Scottish Highlands, where it is much cooler and wetter?