by: The Competitive Enterprise Institute, The Heartland Institute, the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and the International Climate Science Coalition, and Truth in Energy and Climate.
Editor’s note: This summary serves as a fact check on the top false claims made about climate change by the media in May 2025.
Climate claims go bananas! Debunking claims that global warming is impacting crop yields,
wildfires, hurricanes, droughts & floods.
Links: The Guardian article, Food and Agricultural Organization link, Costa Rica link, Guatemala link, Columbia bananas link.
Links: The New York Times article, NICC data.
Links: Carbon Brief post, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study, FAO link, wheat yields.
Links: CNN article, satellite data, research link.
Links: The Guardian post, Southern Annular Mode, March data.
- Now will you support the Green New Deal?! CBS News: ‘Climate change could drive surge in foreclosures and lender losses, new study finds’
- CBS News: ‘How climate change is increasing complication risks for pregnant women’ – Claims climate change nearly doubled the average number of ‘pregnancy heat-risk days’
- NY Times: ‘A woman sued oil and gas companies over her mother’s death in a heat wave’ – ‘It’s the first wrongful death case targeting fossil fuel companies over their role in global warming’
- Wrong, New York Times, Climate Change Didn’t Cause Minnesota’s Wildfires
- Wrong, The Guardian, There Is No Evidence Climate Change Is Harming Bananas
- Human extinction is a baseless climate scare, Slate
See you in July for the June Fact Check!
