This summary serves as a fact check on the top false claims made about climate change by the media in December 2025.
Links: The Associated Press X post, station coverage, leaked email from Phil Jones.
Links: Phys.org post, UHI contamination, station siting concerns.
Links: Yahoo News article, AMOC stability, resiliency to freshwater flux, NOAA comments.
Links: Al Jazeera post, Indonesian precipitation.
Links: Washington Post article, AGU Advances study, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering study.
Links: The New Republic post, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization data.
Until next month, enjoy these and other great climate fact checks at:
- Wrong, Financial Times, the Arab Region Faces No Climate Emergency
- Wrong Again PBS, UN Is Pushing Another False Climate Crisis Report
- No, NPR, CBS, and NBC, Climate Change Isn’t a Proven Cause of Arctic Warming
- NYT admits reality: Climate skeptics winning ‘information war’ – ‘Have succeeded at undermining climate action globally’
- Financial Times: ‘Climate policy suffers blistering setbacks in 2025’ – ‘US retreat much worse & faster than expected in 2nd Trump admin’
- Boston Globe: ‘Why is it so cold? Some researchers say there may be a surprising culprit: climate change’ – But meteorologist ridicules claim as scientific ‘garbage’
