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Guterres’ comments are not based on science, data, or even history. He is simply attempting to worry the public, with The Guardian’s complicity, in order to gain political leverage for negotiations at COP 30 even as a...

By turning a single weather event into a climate morality tale, The Associated Press misleads its readers and betrays journalistic objectivity. Hurricanes, even powerful hurricanes like Melissa are meteorology, not ideology....

The wind industry must be getting really desperate now!

As should be obvious to any honest observer exercising the least bit of common sense, the reason for rising disaster costs is clear, the expanding bullseye effect.

The Washington Post’s story may make for poetic reading, but it’s science fiction masquerading as environmental journalism. The real issue is not a mildly warming world—it is a city that’s paved, polluted, and hostile...

As a news organization, the BBC should not carry water for its government or government advisory boards that want to continue wasting money on futile “objectives to prevent further temperature rise” when direct efforts...

The Hill did a disservice to its readers by publishing this article which served no other purpose than was to frighten readers into ignoring Trump’s important point, that bad actors (particularly at the United Nations,...

Natural processes — not industrial emissions — were the dominant factor behind the temporary CO2 bump.

The claim that Tuvalu is “barely one meter above sea level” and faces imminent destruction is a talking point that has been circulating for more than 30 years.

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.