Climate Fact-Check October 2024 Edition
By
Steve Milloy
November 11, 2024
Guest Post by: The Competitive Enterprise Institute, The Heartland Institute, the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and the International Climate Science Coalition, and Truth in Energy and Climate.
Editor’s note: This summary serves as a fact check on the biggest false claims made in the media in October, 2024.
The monthly Climate Fact Check is intended to correct misinformation constantly spewing from mainstream media. Many of our fact checks focus on correcting the Washington Post. In explaining his decision to not endorse a presidential candidate, Post owner Jeff Bezos wrote this op-ed, excerpted below:
“In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have
regularly fallen near the very bottom… We must be accurate, and we must be believed to
be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most
people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention
to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be
easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline
in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.”
As Bezos noted, “Reality is an undefeated champion.” The Climate Fact Check is our effort to vindicate that statement. Now on to this month fact checks:
https://climaterealism.com/2024/11/climate-fact-check-october-2024-edition/
