Did Flooding in Australia Cause a Quad Bike to Get Stuck on a Power Line? A lighthearted photo is real -- and so is the "rain bomb" that pounded the country in early 2022.
Are Scientists ‘Covering Up’ Global Warming Data? Politicians and blogs pushing "natural" medicine have tried to distort actual scientific findings about climate change.
Is a 1989 ‘U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked’ Article Authentic? On May 14 2019, a Facebook user shared the following screenshot (archived here), purportedly showing a 1989 Associated Press item prognosticating “disaster” by the year 2000 if “global warming” remained unchecked: In the screenshot, text from an unlinked Associated Press article’s headline and first sentence was visible (with indicated emphasis), reading: U.N. Predicts Disaster if […]
Are ‘Cow Fart Bags’ Being Used to Fight Climate Change? On May 14 2019, a Facebook user shared the following post (archived here), purporting to show “cow fart bags” advocated as a climate change solution by “fringe leftists”: https://www.facebook.com/PatriotRichardGarcia/photos/a.2276600219021148/2675915742422925/?type=3&theater It was almost as if a post lamenting that “you can’t make this stuff up” was a clue that the poster had indeed made that stuff […]
How the Bogus ‘ClimateGate’ Turned a Scientist Into a Climate Denier Hal Lewis blamed a "money flood" for scientific consensus on global warming.
Did a NASA Study Find Antarctica Was Gaining — Not Losing — Ice? Despite the researcher's best intentions, the 2015 study was seized upon by climate deniers.
A Warning From New Zealand on Climate Change Resurfaces Online The article predicted that the effects of coal burning "may be considerable in a few centuries."
Did Bill Gates ‘Admit to Chemtrails’? The tech mogul inadvertently provided yet more fuel for a long-running conspiracy theory.
Did a Single Volcano Eruption Erase Years of Carbon Dioxide Reduction Efforts? A chain email turned social media post painted a discredited Australian researcher as a hero for climate deniers.
Did the Co-Founder of The Weather Channel Call Climate Change a ‘Scam’? John Coleman's sixty-year career as a meteorologist was marked by "climate skepticism."
