“We need to talk about BC’s drought” warns the Narwhal. “As salmon and red cedar suffer during what many are calling Augtober, we’re reminded of the alarming rate at which...
We’re starting a new feature here at CDN where we take on some common truisms about global warming that everybody knows, which turn out to be wrong or misleading on...
...climate change.” Everybody knows global wildfires are raging out of control and are the worst they’ve ever been. And because everybody knows, there’s no need to check the data. But...
...truths that everybody knows. And since everybody knows climate change is making floods and droughts worse around the world, there is no need to look up what other experts said,...
...Because everybody knows the surest sign of a dying coral reef is it growing to record size. Feel free to send us tips for our “Everybody knows” series (with story...
...who says doing nothing is not an option? Well, everybody, since everybody knows it’s not an option. But we’re not everybody, we’re a bunch of nobodies who insist on asking:...
...how CO2 and global temperatures move together, and everybody knows that means CO2 controls the climate: Attenborough’s chart was much like the graph shown to great rhetorical effect by Al...
...Today the glaciers are still there, it’s the signs that are gone. Or have been rewritten to refer vaguely to “future generations” rather than 2020. Contrary to what everybody knows,...
We bring our Everybody knows series to a close by focusing on the biggest claim of the modern age, namely that climate change is an emergency, crisis, catastrophe or worse....
...environment. They don’t reduce CO2 emissions. Not even if people get rid of gasoline cars and only use EVs. And the battery manufacturing process is an ecological disaster. Everybody knows...
In our new series “Everybody knows” we invite CDN readers to send us (via admin@climatedn.com) a climate truism so universally repeated that nobody bothers to check if it’s true, even...
Thanks for the suggestions for our new Everybody Knows series, where we take on climate claims so universally repeated that no one bothers to check if they’re true. If you...
...change means more frequent and more severe wind storms. How does the government know? As with everything else, they know because everybody knows. So who needs to check? We do,...
Thanks for the leads for our new “Everybody Knows” series, where each week we look at an alarmist claim in the media that is presented as so self-evidently true that...
In what country, gentle reader, are you located? Did you know it’s warming faster than the global average? If you’re in Canada then tough luck because everybody knows it’s warming...
...they did, all the jets going into and out of COP27 would have driven them extinct 100 times over. But still, everybody knows it’s just a matter of time before...
...the claim that they’re disappearing, and no one bothers to check. And why should they bother checking? After all, everybody knows the Pacific Islands are sinking due to climate change....
...landfall. Pointing to one storm in one place that fits the narrative and ignoring all the others and all the regions that don’t isn’t science, it’s ambulance-chasing. “Everybody knows” it...
...hurricanes.” But everybody knows that kind of conclusion doesn’t sell papers. Mind you empty climate hype isn’t exactly a formula for long-term success either given how it damages your credibility....
...looked at facts about climate change that everybody knows to be true, or at least everybody who’s anybody to the busybodies, and because everybody knows, nobody needs to check, but...
...in the United States. But once everybody knows, well, everybody knows. (Just as everybody knows that weather getting worse is an “effect” of climate change not an example of it,...
...what everybody knows because they heard it from people like her who wrote it because everybody knows because they heard it from people like her. (And maybe just as well;...
A few years ago we ran an “Everybody Knows“ series going over all the mistaken climate clichés that journalists glibly state without checking because they figure everybody knows, at least...
...adapt to increasingly severe storms, drought, heat and rising sea levels.” It did not say who the scientists who say are. Everybody knows. Speaking of friends like these, Al Gore...
...over this period and neither have U.S. heat waves”. The trouble with climate is that because reporters think everybody knows it’s incredibly hot, they don’t bother checking whether it’s unusually...
...damage to concrete structures. How will winters becoming milder ruin everything? Because reasons. Basically there’s no effort to explain. Everybody knows. It does offer that “the infrastructure will need to...
...climate change for a decline in America’s public swimming pools. Because everybody knows. Even when they don’t; hence a story on a landslide that blocked the Chilcotin River in British...
...to climate change. After all, everybody knows heat melts snow. Then the next year Jack Frost wallops us with snow that just won’t stop… and the same experts furrow their...
...catastrophe, of apocalypse” to “The damage from the 1862 flood was so bad that it bankrupted the state.” But it then concludes that, as everybody knows, everything has changed: “Meteorologists...
...climate situation has become more critical.” Critical how? Well um uh everybody knows…. CORAL BLEACHING! “Over a longer period of time, a rise of 1.5C is believed to be the...
...weather events have become the norm” which is unconnected to any sort of factual evidence. But everybody knows. At least everybody he hangs out with knows. Canary Media also warns...
...Not a hundredth of a degree, right? Right. Because if everyone met their overall Paris commitments it would supposedly reduce warming by 0.1°C and since everybody knows “carbon pollution“ is...
...Weather”, where he shows just how much the apocalyptic rhetoric of activists has no foundation in IPCC reports. In debates on climate, once you get past “everybody knows” or simple...
...a minimal temperature increase well within the natural range of the last 10,000 years has got to be the biggie, the one and only. Everybody knows. At least everybody they...
...supposedly was of every day. Because everybody knows, right? But again, if you were confronted with that claim about your living room, might you not inquire idly how they’d handled...
...to have increased in the Palmetto State… from 1950 until 1980. Then, as the climate emergency hit, they too fled. But see everybody knows, so who cares about facts? Thus...
...and tent we received a flyer from a major Canadian retailer saying “Enjoy summer with hot weekly deals”. See? Everybody knows. (Though not everybody provides links and they didn’t.) The...
...the weather were not getting worse, contrary to what everybody knows or at least everybody who’s anybody thinks they know, and says they know, but does not check. Hurricanes did...
...Germany too has faced record power prices and blackouts. And so will everybody, everybody, who deliberately cripples their energy sector, with or without the smirk. And there’s no doubt that...
...own weather system but may also be powerful enough to actually change the climate, according to scientists from Australia and the United States.” And everybody knows changing the climate is...
...means only about 3 percent more than, say, 40 years ago which wouldn’t exactly constitute massive “unprecedented” flooding. Not that anyone really knows what happened 250 or 2,500 years ago,...
...because they make no real effort to depict or decipher the past. They assume it must have been rough the last few years because everybody knows climate change causes bad...
...at Princeton who specifically refer to the Atlantic basin and point out that they can't draw a connection between greenhouse gases, warming and hurricanes there either. So if everybody knows...
...is calling the budget watchdog’s analysis ‘optimistic,’ and projects Canada will miss the target by a greater margin.” So everybody knows, except the Canadian government, that it can’t do what...
...getting more intense storms? Is the rural part of the state warming like the asphalt jungle? They don’t even ask. Everybody knows. Because Britain is currently dry the usual suspects...
...it just one of those everybody-I-know-knows things? We’ve already shown you the answer. To give “Climate Forward” some credit, it made the scientific claim that: “Daniel Swain, a climate scientist...
...the world, some monitoring stations show an increase, some a decrease, and most no change. Which will never do since everybody knows, or is told to know, that climate change...
...hosts a greater abundance of life.” Because everybody knows cooler temperatures lead to flourishing life forms, which is why the glaciations saw so much more greening than the Cretaceous. And...
...caused by pollution.” Which, again, will never do. Instead stand by for gas-stoves-cause-childhood-asthma to enter the “everybody knows” category and be repeated until you have trouble drawing relaxed breaths too....
...low, it’s an uninteresting bet as well as a safe one. The second key point is that tropical cyclone landfalls exhibit high variability. And as everybody knows who cares to,...
...actual records are actually broken because everybody knows. Or journalists who are accustomed to having the AC on all the time faint when they go outside in summer and think...
...getting worse? Heck no. Why bother? Everybody knows, when “As fossil-fuel burning continues to flood the atmosphere with carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, driving up average global temperatures, the...
...so obvious the science is settled and the debate is over and the crisis is upon us and everybody knows and only oil-company-subsidized hacks say otherwise, it would be necessary...
...everything else. It’s an emergency. Everybody knows it. Why, Nancy Pelosi just told us “Mother Earth is angry” and her noted scientific colleague Joseph Biden added “The science is clear,...
...century. The journalist does not bother to argue the point, or indeed substantiate it. He just assumes everybody knows that sea levels are rising in a way they didn’t use...
...doing it because, everybody knows, “The potential effects of climate change – namely through rising sea levels, worsening floods and fires, and government policies transitioning away from carbon-heavy industry –...
...duh, if it were 14.6% Manhattan would go under. Everybody knows. This sort of calculation is where science meets econometrics, right? Or are you just making it up to sound...
...in our “Everybody Knows“ series, their analysis showed that temperature changes drive subsequent CO2 changes, but there was no evidence that changes in CO2 drove changes in temperature at all....
...vast public lands are in danger of falling into disarray.” And everybody knows that the most dispassionate, objective and detached judges of whether a public sector job is critical to...
...WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE! Seriously. The article goes on that, as everybody knows: “Higher temperatures, extreme weather, melting glaciers, and rising sea levels – all indicators that the...
...as with last week’s quiz on Ottawa, the lines aren’t labeled. Since everybody knows the climate emergency is upon us, you should be able to spot instantly which year is...
...about what's going on and what to do about it.”) So next time someone tells you dinosaurs were fast, agile, warm-blooded and some had feathers, don’t listen. Everybody knows they...
...and pharmacies to close.” Heatwaves don’t do that sort of thing. Everybody knows it, too. On Dec 18, warning of travel disruptions and presenting a map of the country with...
...we were told to believe in climate change because this or that storm had hit. Now it is simply claimed vaguely in passing that everybody knows, before rushing on to...
...much, or how long accurate records have been kept or, well, anything. It seems to be one of those “everybody knows” things where relevant facts would just be a distraction.)...
...official explained to The Washington Post: ‘We know that as climate changes, the impacts are getting worse. We’re seeing more and more flooding going on as a result.’ Everybody knows...
...famous is a word here meaning we think it’s cool, not that everybody knows it), in which he explains that having rejected first naive objectivity and then radical relativism he...
...of ice. Everybody knows warming means it gets hotter and freezes less, so his charts showing that in fact there’s been a reduction in days below freezing in all three...
...Conservatives is that after the 2008 financial crisis “the Tory-led government set about cutting annual public spending, as a proportion of G.D.P., to 39 percent from 46 percent.” And everybody...
Everybody knows, or once knew, about the poor little rich kid whose family’s affluence spoiled them despite their parents’ best efforts. But what about an entire society? It’s a question...
...Paris in 2015.) It’s not to get things done. Everybody knows that, as Richard Nixon said, the real work at international conferences is done ahead of time to avoid embarrassing...
...because everybody knows scientists say we are burning up the planet. Pielke Jr. adds that the National Climate Assessment was not created to weigh in on policy but rapidly became...
...stay in the Western U.S. How will states adapt?” Because everybody knows, apparently. You don’t even have to say it any more. The New York Times “Climate Fwd.” didn’t seem...
...course, it’s just something everybody knows. So we tend to take note of studies showing the opposite. This week’s example is a new study by a team of Chinese meteorologists...
...their biases speak for themselves, because everybody knows, right? Thus facts and logic have become dispensable. As the New York Times’ “Climate Forward” explained brazenly, “Scientists can’t yet say exactly...
...London police” and “has this year been detained by police or removed from protests in Sweden, Norway and Germany”. But everybody knows, including the police taking part in this theatre,...
...‘colossal task’ of sustainable farming on a warming planet.” The colossal task. Of course. Because everybody knows that farming is easy in colder climates, with short growing seasons and early...
...is precisely the work the IPCC was meant to be doing. But at a certain point, though, you might start thinking it’s redundant. Everybody knows CO2 is good for plants…...
...area with the arrival of powerful monsoons at this time of year.” But never mind. It’s climate change, everybody knows. And it won’t do to challenge the narrative, so as...
...come up with was Beryl being the earliest Category 5 “ever observed in the Atlantic” not the strongest, deadliest or any of that guff. But you see, everybody knows. What...
...The Atlantic, Robinson Meyer argues that… Manchin’s reversal will actually worsen inflation: By reducing long-term demand for oil, Biden’s plan would probably have lowered gas prices” because as everybody knows...
As we have often observed, climate alarmists arm-wave about increasing natural disasters as if “everybody knows” when in fact the data do not show increasing natural disasters. It doesn’t matter...
...Because everybody knows climate change is bringing unprecedented weather and if you look hard enough you find a way, including NBC’s “California battered by ‘potentially historic’ storm”. So it’s not...
...caps, and frozen oceans – is already creating negative impacts across a range of sectors.” Everybody knows such things. We don’t need no stinkin’ evidence. Or offer any. What we...
...the “everybody knows” file, “There is still considerable debate among analysts over when global demand for oil will peak, with estimates ranging between later this decade and 2050.” Or not...
...storm to affect Scotland for 500 years” although everybody knows climate change has brought unprecedented bad weather to computers, newspapers and social media around the world. We will also belabour...
...As everybody knows, except when discussing man-made climate change, the cycle is a complex and dynamic one with negative gain feedbacks. Which is a polysyllabic way of saying that, rather...
...day in the park and everybody knows it. As Connors’ “Acadian lady” also loved canoeing. There is a group huddled indoors by the air conditioner refusing to smell the roses....
...acceleration more or less coincides with a new satellite whose measurements are spliced onto those of tidal gauges and everybody knows, or used to, that when you combine data sets...
...“For its attack on fossil fuels, CNN handpicked four countries that use coal: Australia, India, Canada, and Poland.” Whereas everybody knows, including Wikipedia, that “China is the largest producer and...
...the 400 years before this 400 years, when (a) everybody knows (b) we’re all going to die (c) the computer said what we told it to? Namely: “Climate model analysis...
...the Copernicus Climate Change Service”. Implements? Um yeah but never mind. The key point is that, as everybody knows or should, and their own chart actually pretty much reveals while...
...wet conditions. Of course you might fire back that the real problem isn’t wetness, it’s dryness. Surely everybody knows that the climate crisis means more and more areas are suffering...
...on the information, plunge into the facts, embrace and revel in actual knowledge, measurements and reliable series?” “Oh, such a ruckus,” Kluge protested. “Everybody knows that hurricanes are getting worse,...
...barely looked up from your mobile phones at the prospect of non-survival. It’s become so hyperbolic that no one really knows how to get anyone’s attention anymore.” Especially when they...
...methods.” Alarmists don’t love weather attribution because it conducts fair trials. They love it because it convicts everybody, with roughly the subtlety of Andrei Vyshinsky or Lavrenti Beria. But it...
...our fair share?” as if everybody involved were doing math. But they’re not. They’re doing politics, in which as Brennus famously said, “Vae victis”. OK, in case you didn’t attend...
As everybody who’s anybody prepares to fly to Glasgow to experience a sharp drop in temperature and save the planet by rejecting fossil fuels, except for all the people who...
...it was originally phrased in 1886 as “When everybody thinks alike there is hardly any incentive to think at all” by that creative genius “Anonymous”.) Now to be fair the...
...mysteriously hit a deadly tipping point – and no one knows why”. Or that, we dare say. Apparently: “Sometime in the past year, this tiny planet we live on in...
There is another way to solve the climate crisis, of course. And it involves accounting, which may not be everybody’s favourite occupation especially at tax time, but sure beats giving...
...political system. The Manhattan Contrarian is on it. Including that “Con Ed” or Consolidated Edison, which delivers power to most of New York City, knows a crash is coming and...
...Scottish Highlands) than in low-lying regions (e.g. southern England).” Everybody who understands the matter knows the RCP8.5 scenario is not plausible or credible let alone probable. It incorporates absurd assumptions...
...everybody-knows things. He does mention that “Some 645 people in died in Maricopa County, Ariz., alone from heat-related illnesses”, apparently in 2024, without delving into any trends in that number,...
...it? The CBC does the usual everybody-knows move-along thing, saying “The group representing more than 2,000 municipalities is asking for billions of dollars from the federal government to help cities...
...in Canada since 1990 forest fires have been becoming less frequent and less severe. It leaves you hoping at least he knows what a tree is, especially given that one...
...the everybody-tries-to-shift-the-burden sense: “So-called carbon capture and storage (CCS) is at center stage at COP28, the United Nations climate conference that kicked off on Thursday in Dubai. Developed countries are...
...the burning of fossil fuels”. John Robson: Climate change. Human caused warmings. Climate whiplash. It’s your fault, and my fault, and everybody’s fault. Except maybe the mayor of Los Angeles...
...the only solution but are “crucial” our patience is exhausted. So we just sat there when they told us much more research was necessary to confirm what everybody already knows....
...that wildfire fatalities are on the rise. Everybody just knows. Then there’s a Scientific American claim that: “Meltwater from a glacial lake outburst is flooding Juneau, Alaska. Such events are...
Speaking of what everybody they know knows, New York Times columnist David Wallace-Wells recently exploited the tragic non-climate-related Texas floods to lament how dumbo ordinary Americans just sit there waiting...
...on Hitler because you’re not a historian. On the contrary, just about everybody wants citizens to be engaged, ideally after taking some trouble to inform themselves. And that’s exactly right....
...tells the New York Times’ David Wallace-Wells that “everybody seems to be locked into a place of indifference.” Well, yes, we’re indifferent to what John Kerry has to say. But...