Guest Post by: The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, The Heartland Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, and the International Climate Science Coalition, and Truth in Energy and Climate.
Editor’s note: This compilation serves as a fact check on the most widespread false claims made about climate change by the media in August, 2026.
Debunking claims of climate links to wildfires, hottest month, water crises & Nepal flooding
Links: USGS landslide identification, The New York Times article, NPR article, avalanche, seismic shaking, air temperature penetration of ice, Himalaya temperature record.
Links: Scientific American article, Spokane fires, 2014 Carlton Complex fire, arsonist arrested, fire burn area and temperature research, Eastern Washington temperatures, cheatgrass issue.
Links: Global News article, El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), NOAA prediction, “extremely rapid transition,” El Niño weather impacts.
Links: AP article, urban heat island effect, research on NOAA adjusted data, paper finding declines in “hottest day” values.
Links: Scientific American article, Global Change Biology paper, wildfire burn data for Europe, Europe fire emissions data, forested land burn data.
Links: Nature Communications Earth & Environment study, IPCC’s estimates, Medieval “megadrought.”
Until next month, enjoy these and other great climate fact checks at:
- No, Climate Central, Rising Cooling Costs Aren’t Due to Climate Change
- The Loneliness Epidemic is Not Caused by Climate Change, PBS News
- Wrong, Honolulu Civil Beat, One Hurricane Doesn’t Prove Climate Change
- Psychology Today: ‘How a warming world may be increasing the risk of child maltreatment’ – ‘Climate-related stressors’ linked to ‘the risk of child abuse’
- Tire Banning has arrived: Unelected California bureaucrats issue ban on non ‘efficient’ tires – Claim ‘equivalent of taking 400,000 cars off the road each year’
- AP goes full climate doomsday! ‘The world inches toward catastrophic climate events’: ‘Catastrophe is not a question of if, but when’
- NPR’s Claim That Climate Change Is Destroying Children’s Summer Fun Is Ridiculous
- Record Low Lake Mead: “Millennium Drought” or Inevitable Result of Demand Exceeding Supply?
- When Experts Obfuscate! How Alarmist Scientists like D. Swain, J. Abatzoglou, A. Williams Falsely Attribute Wildfires to Climate Change.
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