Climate Fact-Check August 2025

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From ClimateRealism

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 top false claims made about climate change by the media in August 2025. 

Debunking the latest unscientific fearmongering on hurricanes, wildfires, the Great Barrier Reef, ‘heat stress’, doomed bananas, & the alleged invasion of fire ants!

Infographic displaying a chart of the global number of rapid intensification events in hurricanes from 1990 to 2024, categorized by ocean regions.
Links: WGRZ-TV report, rapid intensification definition, Klotzbach et al. 2022ocean circulation cycle.
A graph depicting historical water supply and use in the Colorado River Basin, showing a decline in water supply over time, and a projection of future water demand.
Links: X (Twitter) postwater storage declinepaleoclimate drought dataMedieval megadrought.
Graph showing the probability of a pause in September Arctic sea ice extent decline over various time lengths, with different emissions scenarios indicated.
Links: Geophysical Research Letters papers from April and August, CMIP5 model predictions.
Fact check article discussing claims about the Great Barrier Reef's coral decline, featuring screenshots of news headlines and a graph showing hard coral cover over the years.
Links: BBC NewsCNN, coral cover record, AIMS report.
A chart showing the distribution of fire ants in the United States from 1966 to 1990, with areas marked as infested in red and black, highlighting changes over four different years.
Links: Florida Today article, arrival of fire ants history.
A bar graph displaying yearly burned area and the yearly number of fires in France from 2002 to 2023, illustrating trends in wildfires over time.
Links: France 24 report, Copernicus data, previous fires.
Graph showing global banana production and yield from 1961 to 2023, with production increasing significantly over time.
Links: TIME Magazine article, UN FAO data.
Graph depicting the average autumn temperatures in Detroit, Michigan from 1895 to 2024, showing fluctuations over time with a focus on temperature changes.
Links: Climate Central post, NOAA data.

Until next month, enjoy these and other great climate fact checks at:

ClimateRealism.com

ClimateDepot.com

Wattsupwiththat.com

Originally posted at Junkscience.com. Reposted with permission.

Presented by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), The Heartland Institute, Energy & Environment Legal Institute, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), and Truth in Energy and Climate.


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