Over the past 20 years, climate activists have elevated various stories of climate catastrophe, then quietly dropped them without apology when the opposing evidence becomes overwhelming. The only constant is the scare tactics. Protesters used to dress up as polar bears. Al Gore’s 2006 film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” depicted a sad cartoon polar bear floating away to its death. The population has risen from around 12,000 in the 1960s to about 26,000, so climate alarmists have stopped talking about them. For years, they shouted that the reef was being killed off by rising sea temperatures. Annual measurements since 1986 show their highest coral cover area for 2024. Green climate campaigners warned that small Pacific islands would drown as sea levels rose. In fact, scientific literature has documented that almost all atoll islands are stable or increasing in size. Additional sand from old coral is washed up on low-lying shores, make the island grow. Cold kills almost 30x more than extreme heat, but the media only reports the extreme heat deaths. USA President Biden claimed “extreme heat is the No. 1 weather-related killer in the United States.” He is wrong by a factor of 25.

For more than two decades, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has published a count of weather-related disasters in the United States that it estimates have exceeded one billion dollars (inflation adjusted) in each calendar year starting in 1980. This evaluation finds that the “billion dollar disaster” dataset falls short of meeting NOAA’s Information Quality and Scientific Integrity policies. NOAA incorrectly claims that for some types of extreme weather, the dataset demonstrates detection and attribution of changes on climate timescales. NOAA’s claims to have achieved detection and attribution are not supported by any scientific analysis.

Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. reported that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) used blatant cherry picking to falsely claim that there has been an increasing trend in normalized USA hurricane damage. The IPCC cited an extreme outlier in the literature to make this claim which is contrary to the overwhelming scientific consensus on this topic. Peilke wrote “Uncited by the IPCC are 8 other papers in the peer-reviewed literature, by about 20 authors using a range of different methods, each concluding that there has been no such “increasing trend” in normalized US hurricane losses.” The IPCC also falsely reported an increasing proportion of category 3-5 tropical cyclones over the last four decades has been detected and attributed to human-caused climate change, which is contrary to both evidence and the scientific literature. A high level participant in the IPCC confirmed that the major error on tropical hurricanes was a result of claims being inserted into the IPCC outside its review process. An accurate and nuanced statement was removed, and in its place a false claim was inserted and expressed with confidence.

In a speech he delivered to the Commonwealth Club of California, author, screenwriter, and director Michael Crichton lamented the removal of science from environmentalism. The speech given in September 2003 remains highly relevant as climate change and the impact of humans on their environment continues to be a highly politicized subject. Crichton felt that environmentalism had become a religion and is now predominated by fundamentalists—individuals who are not open to reason or opposing ideas. Best known for his works of fiction, including State of Fear, which tells the story of eco-terrorists creating seemingly “natural” disasters to mimic climate change.

An article published by Science raises fraud allegation about the research on ocean acidification (actually neutralization) effects on fish behaviour conducted at James Cook University in Australia. Philip Munday has co-authored more than 250 papers. He and Danielle Dixson, a U.S. biologist, began in 2009 to publish evidence showing that the oceans’ changing chemistry affects fish behaviour. In January 2020, a group of seven young scientists, led by fish physiologist Timothy Clark of Deakin University in Geelong, Australia, published a Nature paper reporting that in a massive 3-year study, they didn’t see these dramatic effects of acidification on fish behavior at all. Some scientists hailed it as a stellar example of research replication that cast doubt on extraordinary claims that should have received closer scrutiny from the start. Clark and others of the group asked three funders of the Munday research to investigate possible fraud in 22 papers. They say there is evidence of manipulation in publicly available raw data files for two papers and “statistically impossible” effects from CO2 reported in many of the other papers.

The Irish Climate Science Forum (ICSF) in cooperation with CLINTEL hosted a lecture by the world-renowned climate scientist Richard Lindzen. Many climate scientists have been battling against climate hysteria for years. We have correctly noted the exaggerated sensitivity, the role of natural internal variability, and the absence of evidence for increased extremes, hurricanes, etc. and the very real benefits of CO2 and modest warming. Lindzen says the whole narrative of a climate crisis is pretty absurd. Our task is to show the relevant people the overall stupidity of this issue.