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 September, 2026.
Summer 2026 NOT hottest evah! – ‘Climate Change’ NOT gobbling up apples or making wildfires more frequent & intense – Sea Levels NOT rising faster than ever – Flash flooding NOT due to ‘climate change’
Links: Post by Secretary-General António Guterres, sea level rise studies, 1920s-1940s rates.
Links: CNN report, Grand Canyon history.
Links: CNN post, CBS post, USA Today post, NOAA data, NOAA press release, U.S. climate divisions recording records, TOB adjustment, homogenization issues, blending urban warming.
Links: NPR affiliate post, USDA data.
Links: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse clip, satellite record, fuel buildup research, 1910 “Big Burn.”
Links: TIME Magazine article, IPCC wind speed confidence.
Until next month, enjoy these and other great climate fact checks at:
- Wrong, USA Today, “Hottest Summer Ever” Claim Ignores the Most Important Temperature Record
- Wrong, Euronews: Climate Change Has Not Created a Food, Energy, and Economic ‘Meta-Crisis’
- Impossible, Asia Nikkei, Climate Change Can’t Be Harming Indonesian Coffee Production, It Is Setting Records
- Wash Post: Global warming now causes FEWER hurricanes – ‘Increasing atmospheric STABILITY in the tropical Atlantic may be connected to a changing climate’
- 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 – Climate nannies claim ‘equivalent of taking 400,000 cars off the road each year’
