Five non-profit groups published a report Wednesday debunking mainstream media claims about the disastrous impacts of the so-called climate change crisis this year, which also included receiving millions of dollars to fund climate coverage.

The “Climate Fact Check 2022” report created by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the Heartland Institute, Energy & Environment Legal Institute, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), and the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) highlighted ten fact checks of climate disaster claims made by several media outlets like The Associated Press, which took $8 million in donations from left-wing philanthropy groups to cover climate change.

“Climate alarmists and their media allies once again made a slew of claims about natural disasters being caused by manmade emissions in 2022,” the report reads. “And once again, these claims clashed with reality and science.”
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One example the report included came from an article written by AP reporter Seth Borenstein, called “New abnormal: Climate disaster damage ‘down’ to $268 billion,” which said some worldwide natural disasters like the Pakistan floods, Hurricane Ian, and droughts stretching from Europe to China were “turbocharged by human-caused climate change.”

According to the Climate Fact Check report, the Pakistan floods and the 2022 monsoon season were within the range of natural variability and the wettest since 1961.

“If emissions are to blame, why was it so rainy then?” the report reads.
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Mainstream media outlets blamed Hurricane Ian, the category four disaster that was the deadliest hurricane to strike Florida since 1935, on climate change for the storm’s rapid intensification. Still, the report references the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which points out that the Atlantic basin hurricane activity is within natural variability after a historically quiet first few months of hurricane season.

BBC News reported that Europe experienced its most severe drought in 500 years. However, the report asks if emissions produced by coal-fired power plants, SUVs, and cheeseburgers caused the lack of rainfall, then what happened in the European mega-drought in 1540?

“Is this money funding actual journalism or just rank political activism?” the report asks.

(Dec 30, 2022 09:25 PM)Syne Wrote: There's no prediction involved. If 2022 monsoons were no worse than 1961, 2022 hurricanes were no worse than 1935, and 2022 drought no worse than 1540, it would stand to reason that between then and now there were lulls in carbon emissions...if those were the main culprit. "Within the range of natural variability" means that the record has yet to show anything alarming.
After the ice age, the sea level rose more than 120 meters. Should we have been alarmed this whole time?

Quote:An updated analysis of the annual UK temperature records from the Met Office shows that since 1884 all of the UK’s ten warmest years have occurred since 2002; whereas none of the ten coldest years have occurred since 1963.

(Dec 30, 2022 12:53 AM)Syne Wrote: https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-wing-groups-funded-climate-alarmism-journalism-claims-debunked-report

[...] The Associated Press, which took $8 million in donations from left-wing philanthropy groups to cover climate change. [...]

Climate grant illustrates growth in philanthropy-funded news
https://apnews.com/article/science-business-arts-and-entertainment-journalism-united-states-087d1d5dd7189c529fe5d7a21a1ffb5f

EXCERPTS: The Associated Press said Tuesday that it is assigning more than two dozen journalists across the world to cover climate issues, in the news organization’s largest single expansion paid for through philanthropic grants. The announcement illustrates how philanthropy has swiftly become an important new funding source for journalism — at the AP and elsewhere — at a time when the industry’s financial outlook has been otherwise bleak.

[...] Five organizations are contributing to the effort: the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Quadrivium, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation.

[...] For many years, journalists and philanthropists were more wary of each other. News organizations were concerned about maintaining independence and, until the past two decades, financially secure enough not to need help. Philanthropists didn’t see the need, or how journalists could help them achieve their goals.

[...] Both sides had things to learn. For Carovillano, it was getting used to the idea that funders weren’t just being generous; they had their own goals to achieve. “This is a mutually beneficial arrangement,” he said.

Quote:If all the supposedly alarming weather events are linked to temperature, but none of these events are outside of the range of natural variability, why should we be worried about temperature?

I Wrote:The UK is a small country which can switch from Arctic to Tropical within a few hours - the significance of the quoted results [ten hottest years] is that (unlike US data) they don't conflict with other sources.