Anthony Watts

“No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to… fry!” If you've ever watched Diamonds Are Forever Die Another Day , or any of the other James Bond films featuring

The British rag, er, Newspaper, The Guardian has spent years proving that no subject is too absurd to connect to climate change. Here's some of their greatest hits.

USA Today claims in “ Your water bill could skyrocket due to climate change, study says ” that hotter, drier conditions caused by global warming

For years, we have been told that every hurricane, wildfire, drought, flood and heat wave is proof that humanity is spiraling toward “climate catastrophe.”

Let’s hope the recent shift represents editors rediscovering an old-fashioned reporting principle: stick with the verifiable facts, in this case that sometimes a heatwave is simply a heatwave.

Because good science depends on evidence, good journalism should too.

The real story isn’t that smoke drifted hundreds of miles from Canadian wildfires. Wildfire smoke commonly does that and has throughout history, as was discussed at Climate Realism previously, here and here, for example. The real story is that despite one of the lowest cumulative burned-area totals across America in more than a decade, portions of the media still insist on treating every smoky sky as proof of climate catastrophe.

While the WUWT website itself is fine, both Charles and Anthony are evaluating threat messages and Malware scans right now for our personal workstations.

From the “is there anything climate change can't do when models are involved?” department. On the plus side, this study illustrates how natural climate cycles were involved. – Anthony

From the “No. we aren't talking about cloning Michael Keaton or saying Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse!” department comes this very interesting discovery that took a century to confirm.