{"id":417129,"date":"2025-12-12T12:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T11:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=417129"},"modified":"2025-12-12T12:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T11:14:11","slug":"media-outlets-shill-for-climate-risk-firm-despite-no-evidence-showing-climate-change-threatens-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=417129","title":{"rendered":"Media Outlets Shill for Climate Risk Firm, Despite No Evidence Showing Climate Change Threatens Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"723\" data-attachment-id=\"417135\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=417135\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AQMsEZMAJNGZ9rW0kZZ610UccnMMjbsrMAzxfjneA7fB2R5K2UrmnLxa40QDTBIEEm7PQXER9QNdwduZWgWwLfibjLdfI5CBTkTpeggJVgmCGNx5fs131n061GIYqG6cgZHb7aOkb-tihZ3N-VllrNKlYbgQ.jpeg?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\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2025\/12\/media-outlets-shill-for-climate-risk-firm-despite-no-evidence-showing-climate-change-threatens-homes\/\">ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/author\/llueken\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Linnea Lueken<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"447\" data-attachment-id=\"417130\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=417130\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-239.png?fit=1280%2C791&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,791\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-239.png?fit=723%2C447&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-239.png?resize=723%2C447&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"An illustration of a yellow house with a 'For Sale' sign held by a man in a suit against a blue background with clouds.\" class=\"wp-image-417130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-239.png?resize=1024%2C633&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-239.png?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-239.png?resize=768%2C475&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-239.png?resize=640%2C396&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-239.png?resize=1200%2C742&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-239.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Multiple media outlets, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/12\/02\/climate\/zillow-climate-data-extreme-weather-first-street-redfin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNN<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/05\/opinion\/zillow-redfin-flood-wildfire-risk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New York Times (NYT),<\/a>\u00a0Euro News, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/203982\/zillow-climate-risk-home-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New Republic<\/a>, recently posted articles complaining that the real estate website Zillow was removing \u201cclimate risk scores\u201d from their home listing info, claiming that it puts home buyers at risk. The mainstream media outlets are wrong and Zillow is right. Its decision to de-emphasize climate scores is sound and puts no one at risk but could make homes more saleable. The scores Zillow previously relied upon were, unscientific, biased, and inaccurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In CNN\u2019s article, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/12\/02\/climate\/zillow-climate-data-extreme-weather-first-street-redfin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The real estate industry is pressuring Zillow and other sites to nix extreme weather risk data buyers have come to rely on<\/a>,\u201d the organization that Zillow is using for their \u201cclimate risk assessments,\u201d First Street, says that their data is \u201cmore accurate than limited federal data like FEMA flood maps.\u201d They tout success with their predictions regarding California wildfire risk yet fail badly when it comes to flood risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The California Regional Multiple Listing Service looked into First Street\u2019s assessments and told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/KQAbZ#selection-787.0-787.263\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0\u201cwhen we saw entire neighborhoods with a 50 percent probability of the home flooding this year and a 99 percent probability of the home flooding in the next five years, especially in areas that haven\u2019t flooded in the last 40 to 50 years, we grew very suspicious.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/science\/article\/zillow-home-climate-risk-20147318.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Researchers<\/a>&nbsp;from University of California Irvine compared First Street\u2019s flood predictions for individual homes to real world flood events and found that the company\u2019s model fell short, because \u201ctrying to say that you can differentiate the risk of one house versus another seems to not be substantiated by these results.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s important to note that First Street is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/firststreet.org\/our-mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">not a neutral risk analysis<\/a>\u00a0firm. They were formed specifically to connect climate change to property risk, nothing else. They start with the assumption that climate change threatens homes and businesses and then designed their analyses to make the connection and demonstrate how bad the threat is. First Street is climate alarm advocacy group rather than a legitimate risk assessment firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Climate Realism<\/em>&nbsp;previously reported on First Street\u2019s poor modeling and tunnel-visioned predictions, all of which lean heavily on a theory of catastrophic and rapid climate change and flawed climate models, and scenarios, none of which are proving out in reality.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2025\/06\/contrary-to-climate-groups-claims-the-fresno-bee-points-out-population-changes-and-economics-are-complex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Earlier this year,<\/a>&nbsp;for instance, First Street claimed that nearly half of Fresno residents would move from the area by 2055 due to climate risk. Local weather data and housing market analyses showed the report was nonsense, and even locals who otherwise agree with the climate emergency narrative found the report overly alarmist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, these faulty and suspect scoring systems do have real impacts on home sales.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zillow.com\/research\/climate-risk-home-sales-34930\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zillow<\/a>&nbsp;did research themselves that found homes claimed as \u201cat extreme risk\u201d sell for less money, if they are able to sell at all. Worse, homeowners are not able to challenge the scores given by First Street, even when they are inaccurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CNN admits that they use First Street data and maps themselves, laughably commenting that \u201cwhile models that predict climate change on a global level have largely been consistent and accurate, Chegwidden conducted a study in 2024 that found risk modeling can have wide-ranging variations at an individual property level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latter part of the statement is true, but the opening is false. Climate modelling is well known to be bad at making accurate predictions, even on things as straightforward as global average temperature. Popular models runway hotter than real world data have shown, as\u00a0<em>Climate Realism<\/em>\u00a0has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/?s=models\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explained<\/a>\u00a0many times\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2021\/08\/two-studies-confirm-climate-models-are-overheated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">and other climate scientists admit<\/a>. Model\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2022\/05\/hooray-some-scientists-honestly-reporting-that-climate-models-run-too-hot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scenarios like RCP 8.5<\/a>\u00a0predict temperature changes that are implausible at best, physically impossible at worst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other outlets, like Euronews\u2019 post \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2025\/12\/06\/nowhere-to-move-how-climate-change-became-the-property-markets-biggest-nightmare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nowhere to move: How climate change became the property market\u2019s biggest nightmare<\/a>,\u201d claim the so-called climate crisis is one of the \u201cbiggest threats\u201d to the property market. Relying on attribution studies, Euronews claims that the Los Angeles wildfires were due to climate change, and more properties are impacted by increasingly frequent and extreme weather disasters around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Again, Euronews, like CNN, is wrong. Global weather losses as a percentage of GDP have declined over time, not increased. (See figure below)<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"260\" data-attachment-id=\"417133\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=417133\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-241.png?fit=468%2C260&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"468,260\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-241.png?fit=468%2C260&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-241.png?resize=468%2C260&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A graph illustrating global weather disaster losses as a percentage of global GDP from 1990 to 2023, showing a declining trend over time.\" class=\"wp-image-417133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-241.png?w=468&amp;ssl=1 468w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-241.png?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Extreme weather events&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climateataglance.com\/category\/extreme-weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">are not<\/a>&nbsp;becoming more frequent or extreme according to measured and historical data. Events like the L.A. wildfires of last January, while certainly a disaster, were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2025\/01\/politico-and-the-guardian-falsely-blame-california-wildfires-on-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">not unprecedented<\/a>, and neither were the conditions that contributed to their severity. If these events are not actually being worsened by climate change, First Street\u2019s whole premise is moot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. property values that First Street claims should be tumbling have continued to climb, amid the modest warming of the past century. A previous&nbsp;<em>Climate Realism<\/em>&nbsp;post critiquing First Street\u2019s alarmism, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2025\/02\/false-cnbc-climate-change-is-not-causing-a-housing-market-collapse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">False, CNBC, Climate Change Is Not Causing a Housing Market Collapse<\/a>,\u201d demonstrated this clearly. That post, notes \u201cto the extent that insured losses have climbed recent years it is a result increasing amounts of property being insured in areas prone to natural disasters, as populations, homes, and businesses in those regions have increased dramatically.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simply, if there is more property to destroy by flooding or other weather disasters, then when those events occur, they will impact more property. It\u2019s not because of climate change. Yet First Street\u2019s climate risk \u201canalyses\u201d have dinged home values by sticking them with bogus scores, doing economic damage to the real estate market and individual property sellers possibly greater than recent natural disasters themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems strange that media outlets are flocking to white knight for First Street and save its reputation. They are not the only company that does these kinds of \u201cclimate risk\u201d analyses, and some other companies seem to be more transparent with their modelling and data, as admitted by CNN in their post. Perhaps it is because First Street is among those risk companies that explicitly generates reports and content for climate alarmists to use to scare the public, even though its risk assessments are not well founded in objective data and real-world conditions. For the mainstream media it seems, generating fear is more important that accurate reporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple media outlets, including\u00a0CNN,\u00a0The New York Times (NYT),\u00a0Euro News, and\u00a0The New Republic, recently posted articles complaining that the real estate website Zillow was removing \u201cclimate risk scores\u201d from their home listing info, claiming that it puts home buyers at risk. The mainstream media outlets are wrong and Zillow is right. Its decision to de-emphasize climate scores is sound and puts no one at risk but could make homes more saleable. 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