Editor’s note: This compilation serves as a fact check on the most widespread false claims made about climate change by the media in June, 2026.
Exposing false climate claims about alleged ‘looming’ catastrophe, Antarctica, heatwaves, & food production
Links: Reuters, The Independent, ocean-atmospheric oscillation, University of Alabama Huntsville data.
Links: Futurism article, The Guardian story, observational data, low temperature record, “banana belt.”
Links: X post, excess heat deaths data, extreme cold data, The Lancet research paper.
Links: Bloomberg story, FAO data, CO2 fertilization effect, yield boost data, growing seasons, world hunger data, IPCC comments.
Links: The Washington Post article, attribution study.
Until next month, enjoy these and other great climate fact checks at:
ClimateRealism.com
• No, The Conversation, the AMOC Doesn’t Have an Image Problem. It Has a Credibility Problem
• Wrong, ScienceAlert: Sea Level ‘Acceleration’ Isn’t What the Measured Data Show
• No, New York Times, Climate Change Is Not Making Tennis Players Ill
ClimateDepot.com
• UN climate agency warns of ‘slower’ games due to ‘extreme heat during the World Cup
• Physicist Dr. Will Happer warned the world has been taken in by ‘the climate madness of a pseudo-scientific doomsday cult’
• Mayor of Paris rejects installing AC in homes: ‘Individual air conditioning is a scourge’ – Instead urges ‘cooling collective spaces’
Wattsupwiththat.com
• It’s Summer Again, So Media Tees-Up Another Round of ‘Heat Dome’ Mania
• Here Comes the Super Mega Ultimate Hyper Giga Godzilla El Niño
• The Moist-Adiabatic Theory vs. Reality
