05/06/2026
Man made climate change is a hoax.
Snippets from Adam Creighton’s powerful & accurate article:
Two decades after the release of Al Gore’s film documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, it has become fun to point out how few of his hysterical claims have materialised. Sea levels have not risen six metres. The snows of Kilimanjaro have not vanished. Polar bear numbers have risen, and no major cities lie underwater
Gore’s impact on the climate change debate has been infamous, and increasingly amusing. But blame for the steady brainwashing of swaths of the population, including schoolchildren, who surveys show are the most fearful, must rest with the wider mainstream media
Far from “following the science”, it turns out 10 of the most important news outlets in Britain and the US have catastrophised the lengthy Assessment Reports produced every few years by hundreds of scientists under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Rigorous new research, published last month by the National Bureau of Economic Research, trawled through more than 116,000 newspaper articles from 10 influential outlets, both right- and left-leaning, and found systematic fearmongering in their reporting of the six major Assessment Reports from 1990 to 2023
“Public summaries of IPCC climate assessments lean toward the more severe end of the technical evidence,” the authors find in their new paper, Divergence in Climate Change Communication
Their conclusion is striking, though not surprising. First, the official Summaries for Policy Makers SPMs are themselves biased. These summaries tend to cherrypick the more extreme forecasts and outcomes contained in the much larger IPCC Assessment Reports
All 195 IPCC member governments – whose bureaucrats have typically swallowed the alarmist narrative – must approve SPMs line by line before they are released to the media. “This makes the public-facing document a politically negotiated artefact rather than a neutral summary of the underlying science (and) because a single delegation (can) block consensus, the wording converges on what the most risk-averse delegation will accept,” the report says, adding the SPM “reweights severity upward” in every one of the six reports
Adam Creighton is chief economist at the Institute of Public Affairs
