By Issues & Insights Editorial Board | October 15, 2026
As part of I&I’s continual effort to keep readers up to date in regard to the carbon tales, we take a dive into Climate Realism’s September fact check. What we learn is what we already knew — the alarmists are not committed to truth, they are committed to their lazy narrative.
Let’s begin with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ claim that seas are rising “faster than at any point in recorded history with far-reaching consequences,” adding, because there is nothing to fulminate over without the grift, that “we need to urgently scale up climate action” as well as “international cooperation.”
Climate Realism, a coalition of several reliable policy groups, says this is “demonstrably false” and points to the Holocene era of roughly 8,000 to 11,000 years ago in which sea levels rose 8 millimeters to 12 millimeters a year, far higher than the 3.4 millimeters annually over the three-decade period that began in 1993. “Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels,” says Climate Realism, “are clearly not the sea level control knob.”
Big fat lie (our words) No. 2 is the assertion that the climate crisis, worsened by a warmer atmosphere, caused the August Grand Canyon flash flooding that killed two and left another missing.
“This is nonsense,” says Climate Realism. The Grand Canyon was carved by flooding over millions of years. “Flooding is not foreign to the Grand Canyon and is in fact an essential part of its geological history.” It’s also a fact that deaths due to flooding have been “fairly common” at the park since its opening more than a century ago.
Of course there’s the news that September 2026 was the hottest month on record. This is misleading. If we go by daytime highs, 1934, 1936 and 2012 were hotter. September was warm because overnight lows were more elevated than usual.
Climate Realism also debunks the allegations that global warming is a threat to New York apple growers; is causing wildfires to be more frequent and intense; and is also the force behind coastal flooding along the New Jersey shore.
The warming alarmists have always been shameless, and their dishonesty rivals the propaganda that communist and fascist juntas have spread since the early 20th century. Saving the planet is not their aim. Their objective is to replace capitalism and free marketswith centrally planned, command-and-control regimes that they control.
They want the public to see concerned activists when in reality their racket operates under a big-tent circus of frauds, hustlers, socialists/communists, enviers, misanthropes who believe man is but a worm to be exterminated, those who have never gotten past their high school years and are desperate for social cred, and everyday lunatics. The con has lost a great deal of its clout, but as long as it’s still around, we’ll be here to keep the public informed.
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