{"id":409605,"date":"2025-10-22T12:01:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=409605"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:01:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:01:55","slug":"climate-disaster-science-gets-huge-coverage-when-its-found-to-be-wrong-crickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=409605","title":{"rendered":"Climate disaster science gets huge coverage. 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AQN1SiKrUlJbogLSPGFTwaXYtwtkgq1DmGgArKuTxl5p9oBHYFJFHVSDF4BE-KQOj2XskoeHBhSCVTZ1B1z77EPeugxorMFO1cXbSSfWpb6QO9oFcreCIw_5syeu3uw.png?resize=60%2C60&amp;ssl=1 60w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AQN1SiKrUlJbogLSPGFTwaXYtwtkgq1DmGgArKuTxl5p9oBHYFJFHVSDF4BE-KQOj2XskoeHBhSCVTZ1B1z77EPeugxorMFO1cXbSSfWpb6QO9oFcreCIw_5syeu3uw.png?resize=550%2C550&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AQN1SiKrUlJbogLSPGFTwaXYtwtkgq1DmGgArKuTxl5p9oBHYFJFHVSDF4BE-KQOj2XskoeHBhSCVTZ1B1z77EPeugxorMFO1cXbSSfWpb6QO9oFcreCIw_5syeu3uw.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We need to embrace data-driven solutions that address climate challenges without torching the global economy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the world of climate politics, highly pessimistic scenarios can drive headlines and coverage, and so in turn have an impact on policy. Two recent unfortunate episodes show that the rush to shout \u201cfire\u201d means that some scenarios are gaining massive influence when they should instead be attracting sceptical reviews of the science used to construct them. <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2025\/10\/21\/climate-disaster-media-huge-net-zero-policy-misinformation\/\">The Telegraph<\/a> has the story.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take wildfires. Despite repeated claims of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/31\/opinion\/climate-change-glasgow-united-states.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a \u201cworld on fire\u201d<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gwis.jrc.ec.europa.eu\/apps\/gwis.statistics\/seasonaltrend\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">data set<\/a>&nbsp;after&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/2013JG002532\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">data set<\/a>&nbsp;shows that the world burns ever less in terms of burned area. Disrupting this unhelpful reality, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41559-024-02452-2\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">splashy paper<\/a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em>Nature<\/em>&nbsp;last year finally found a worrying narrative: \u201cextreme wildfire events\u201d had more than doubled globally over the past two decades. Using satellite data from 2003 to 2023, the authors clustered fire hotspots and tallied their \u201cfire radiative power\u201d \u2013 a proxy for intensity. Predictably, this ignited a media bonfire. Outlets from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/24\/climate\/extreme-wildfires-have-doubled-in-2-decades-study-finds.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/extreme-wildfire-risk-climate-change\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News<\/a>&nbsp;blared warnings of a planet ablaze, seeing fiercer fires as proof that we are hurtling toward a global inferno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hold the extinguishers. New&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41559-025-02742-3\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">research<\/a>&nbsp;indicates that the study was wrong. The new analysis shows that extreme fire is down by 35 per cent over the same period. The fires are burning less intensely, and we already knew that less area is getting burned as time goes by \u2013 but this contradicts the extreme climate script, so we heard crickets from major media outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s more good news we are not hearing much about: 2025 is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gwis.jrc.ec.europa.eu\/apps\/gwis.statistics\/seasonaltrend\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shaping up<\/a>&nbsp;as one of the least fiery years on record across most areas of the world. Total burned area in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe is dramatically down compared to previous years \u2013 potentially the lowest in the 21st century if the trend holds. We should celebrate this as evidence that adaptation and better land management are working. Instead, such news is buried because it doesn\u2019t align with the orthodoxy of economy-crushing climate policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The biggest advert for those policies was last year\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/YoCaG\/https:\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-07219-0\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bombshell study<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 also in&nbsp;<em>Nature<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 claiming that global real income will be 19 percent lower by 2050 than it would have been with no climate change and 62 per cent lower by 2100. Alarmingly, the research&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bpi.com\/the-ngfss-new-climate-damage-function-a-flawed-analysis-with-massive-economic-consequences\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">became the go-to damage estimate for the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS)<\/a>, a powerhouse coalition of central banks and regulators spanning the US, EU, Japan, and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For decades, solid economics \u2013 from Nobel laureate climate economist William Nordhaus and others \u2013 has painted a clear picture: climate change is a serious but manageable economic issue, costing 2-3 per cent of global GDP by century\u2019s end. That is the same as enduring one or two recessions over 75 years \u2013 hardly societal collapse. But the new research seemed to indicate that the economic damage caused by climate change would be far worse than had been thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/YoCaG\/https:\/obr.uk\/box\/risks-around-the-estimates-of-climate-damage-costs\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UK Office for Budget Responsibility<\/a>&nbsp;and others cited it in important ways because it aligned with their bias toward the narrative of apocalypse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, several&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09320-4\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">peer-reviewed<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09206-5\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">takedowns<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 again published in&nbsp;<em>Nature<\/em>&nbsp;itself \u2013 are ripping the new science to shreds, as even&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2025\/08\/06\/nature-study-flawed-climate-damages\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the&nbsp;<em>Wall Street Journal&nbsp;<\/em>has acknowledged<\/a>. Errors abound: most of the suggested economic damage disappears once data from Uzbekistan is removed from the calculations. The estimated climate impact, correctly analysed, is statistically indistinguishable from zero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the damage is already done. The NGFS, which was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ngfs.net\/en\/press-release\/joint-statement-founding-members-central-banks-and-supervisors-network-greening-financial-system?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">co-founded by former Bank of England governor<\/a>&nbsp;and now Canadian prime minister Mark Carney, has the important role of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/3b2ad806-44d7-4dc4-801d-50fe689b3cea?j=eyJ1Ijoia3Y1Z2gifQ.XpSsSG4T0nqaULIzBtBcQq-vjPq0iJDd01DZYFQlNgk\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stress-testing<\/a>&nbsp;financial systems, and it has been using these unfounded disaster costs to regulate banks, potentially triggering unnecessary regulations that could stifle growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As climate&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/beaee954-a7ef-4e91-8546-0e0422535834?j=eyJ1Ijoia3Y1Z2gifQ.XpSsSG4T0nqaULIzBtBcQq-vjPq0iJDd01DZYFQlNgk\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">researcher Roger Pielke Jr. notes<\/a>, the NGFS has a history of cherry-picking outlier damages over sober estimates \u2013 suggesting that the NGFS needs a root-and-branch overhaul of its approach to climate science. Scientific publishing itself needs to take a look in the mirror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The key takeaway from the two episodes is that it\u2019s important to turn to comprehensive data \u2013 and that goes for the media, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Climate change needs a response. The true climate challenge is to develop solutions that do not cause more economic damage than climate change would. Adaptation and green innovation can deliver such solutions. Unfortunately, today\u2019s popular climate policies would instead squander 5-20 per cent of GDP while only cutting emissions marginally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We need to embrace data-driven solutions that address climate challenges without torching the global economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Read the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2025\/10\/21\/climate-disaster-media-huge-net-zero-policy-misinformation\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Bjorn Lomborg is President of the Copenhagen Consensus, Visiting Fellow at Stanford University\u2019s Hoover Institution, and author of \u201cFalse Alarm\u201d and \u201cBest Things First\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the world of climate politics, highly pessimistic scenarios can drive headlines and coverage, and so in turn have an impact on policy. 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