More Truth About The Climate Lies

Last week we noted that so far there had been zero Atlantic hurricanes, a record. For the first time in 112 years, we’ve now gone this deep into hurricane season without one. Of course the media ignore this monumental phenomenon because it doesn’t fit the global warming tale. So what other inconvenient facts are they covering up? Here’s a partial list:

• The Great Barrier Reef, that immense coral system off of Australia’s northeastern coast, the largest living structure on the planet, which experts said was being killed by manmade global warming, has gone through its best five years on record. Official reef-wide statistics were “widely published as the Great Barrier Reef got worse,” says Danish researcher Bjorn Lomborg, but when the data showed improvement, the statistic keeping stopped.
• “Vegetation greenness has been increasing globally since at least 1981, when satellite technology enabled large-scale vegetation monitoring,” says a study published in Nature. “Global vegetation models suggest that CO2 fertilization is the main driver of global vegetation greening.” The volume of additional greenery is equivalent in size to the contiguous U.S. four times over. The findings support previous reports that reached the same conclusion: Earth is going green.
• A 2025 Nature paper that claimed climate change is making droughts worse has been retracted. Apparently its “findings were incorrect and based on shoddy methodology” and there were “gross errors throughout,” says Pierre Gosselin of the No Tricks Zone, a site that refuses to surrender to the climate zealots.
• Contrary to the alarmist claims that they are or will be a growing problem, we are seeing fewer wildfires. Credit the innovative, adaptive self-preservationist nature of mankind — that same mankind that is supposedly setting Earth on fire by combusting fossil fuels to improve our living experiences over those in, say, the Middle Ages, or even 100 years ago.
• The deadly flood in Nepal gave the alarmists yet another event to blame on anthropogenic global warming, but it was caused by a bedrock collapse, not carbon dioxide emissions that led to a glacier melt. The flood had nothing to do with climate change.
• Activists, Democrat politicians, the media, and general population cranks have long pointed to the worst-case-scenario, everyone-is-on-fire, the sky-is-aflame predictions pumped out by the United Nations as reason to stop using fossil fuels. As it turns out, the U.N admits the extreme forecasts are “implausible.” Will any of the purveyors of this fiction own up to their error, write lengthy articles explaining why they were wrong to trust the U.N. or apologize for unnecessarily stirring up fear?

Former climate activist/climate reporter Lucy Biggers, now head of social media at The Free Press, recently confessed that she “never covered positive climate stories because it would muddy the message that climate change was an existential threat that was burning the planet.” She would cover the stories “that made the climate look worse.” This is “why we rarely see events like this year’s historically quiet eastern hurricane season covered widely by the news,” she adds. “Many reporters believe covering it will give fodder to climate change deniers.”

She left the reservation but she says news outlets still have reporters who are agenda-driven as she was, and think they’re reporting the truth when they’re actually amplifying the activist propaganda.

Biggers, who admits she helped elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Congress, now says that “growing up” taught her “that prosperity comes from less government, less regulation, and lower taxes, not more of them.” We hope to see more transitions to reason from all reporters and editors, not just those covering climate. If so, the stories that refute the climate doom narrative will finally make their way to the top of the news.

— Written by the I&I Editorial Board

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