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From ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Anthony Watts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TIME Magazine reporter Simmone Shah claims in \u201cClimate Change Is Accelerating Faster Than We Can Respond, Scientists Warn<\/a>\u201d that Earth is undergoing a rapidly accelerating climate destabilization that humanity is increasingly unable to handle. This is false and grossly misleading. The observational record shows a modest long-term warming trend amid substantial short-term variability, while human longevity, food production, resilience to weather disasters, and global vegetation have improved dramatically during the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TIME opens with the ominous declaration that \u201cthe climate is warming up faster than we can respond,\u201d based on a new BioScience paper titled \u201cThe 2026 state of the climate report: challenges and opportunities.<\/a>\u201d  The article then barrels through warming, sea level, wildfires, heat deaths, greenhouse gases, coral reefs, tipping points, fossil fuels, and planetary \u201clife-support systems,\u201d giving readers the impression that civilization is watching the planetary engine check lights turn red one after another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is remarkably little effort to ask the most obvious question: If climate change is outrunning humanity\u2019s ability to respond, where is the evidence that humanity is losing?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s start with TIME\u2019s central claim. Shah writes that warming accelerated from approximately 0.05\u00b0C per decade between 1880 and 1970 to 0.36\u00b0C per decade from 2010 through 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That sounds terrifying until you translate it into ordinary numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A trend of 0.36\u00b0C per decade is 0.036\u00b0C per year. That is about six-hundredths of a degree Fahrenheit per year.<\/em> No human being can perceive such a change from one year to the next, much less experience it as some runaway climatic upheaval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More importantly, TIME compares a 90-year trend with a recent 14-year trend ending immediately after the extraordinary 2023-2024 temperature spike. That is a marvelous way to manufacture a frightening comparison, but a poor way to explain climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate Realism addressed almost exactly this claim in March in \u201cNo, TIME, the Planet Isn\u2019t \u2018Heating Faster Than Ever.\u2019\u201d<\/a> The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) satellite record showed a long-term lower-tropospheric trend of about 0.16\u00b0C per decade since 1979, with large short-term excursions associated with El Ni\u00f1o and other natural influences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NASA Science<\/a> itself has described the 2023-2024 warmth as \u201cexceptional\u201d and investigated multiple contributors, including El Ni\u00f1o, aerosol changes, cloud cover, solar activity, and the enormous injection of stratospheric water vapor from the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha\u2019apai eruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But here is the most embarrassing omission in TIME\u2019s story: the BioScience paper itself is more cautious than TIME.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The researchers say warming \u201cappears\u201d to have accelerated. They then explicitly acknowledge that other analyses find the recent warming, including the 2023-2024 spike, consistent with climate-model simulations rather than evidence of a newly accelerated trajectory<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TIME doesn\u2019t bother telling readers that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, Shah jumps immediately from the short-term warming calculation to tipping points, irreversible changes, and the possibility of reaching 2\u00b0C before 2050.  That\u2019s not explaining uncertainty. That\u2019s stripping the uncertainty out and keeping the scary part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then TIME turns to extreme weather. Shah points to 2026 heat waves and wildfires and declares that the effects of an \u201cacceleratingly warming planet\u201d have become \u201cimpossible to ignore.\u201d Yet in the very same paragraph she admits, \u201cwe don\u2019t yet know enough to link these individual weather events to climate change.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read that again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TIME uses individual weather events as evidence of accelerating climate catastrophe and then acknowledges that those individual events cannot presently be linked to climate change. That is not climate analysis. That\u2019s narrative first, evidence later doomsday claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wildfires are an especially poor choice. Climate at a Glance\u2019s review of global wildfire data<\/a> notes that NASA satellite observations found global burned area declined 24 percent between 1998 and 2015. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) likewise acknowledges that global burned area decreased between 1998 and 2015<\/a>, even while finding that fire weather has increased in some regions. More recent research<\/a> continues to find a decline in total global burned area over the satellite era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That nuance is nowhere to be found in TIME\u2019s parade of disasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there is mortality. TIME cites a preliminary estimate of 35,000 excess deaths during European heat waves.  Heat kills people, and sensible adaptation to extreme heat is important. But presenting one summer\u2019s estimate without the broader mortality record is spectacularly misleading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate at a Glance documents<\/a> that deaths from weather-related disasters have fallen by more than 99 percent<\/strong> during the past century. Average annual deaths fell from approximately 485,000 in the 1920s to fewer than 8,000 around 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is what successful adaptation looks like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Temperature mortality provides another inconvenient fact. A large 2021 study in The Lancet Planetary Health<\/a><\/em> estimated that 8.52 percent of deaths were associated with cold temperatures compared with 0.91 percent associated with heat. From 2000-2003 to 2016-2019, declining cold mortality outweighed increasing heat mortality, producing a net reduction<\/strong> in temperature-related mortality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TIME somehow manages to write an article about climate changing \u201cfaster than we can respond\u201d without mentioning one of the clearest measurements of our response: people have become vastly less likely to die from weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Food tells the same story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization<\/a> reports that global cereal production increased 27 percent from 2010 to 2024<\/strong>, reaching 3.1 billion tonnes, primarily because of improving yields. Oil-crop production increased 50 percent. Climate at a Glance<\/a> similarly documents record-setting global crop production and yields during the period of modern warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently Earth\u2019s \u201clife-support systems\u201d forgot to notify agriculture. Plants didn\u2019t get TIME\u2019s doom memo either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NASA satellite observations found that between one-quarter and one-half of Earth\u2019s vegetated land significantly greened over 35 years, with researchers estimating that carbon dioxide fertilization accounted for approximately 70 percent of the observed greening. NASA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human beings have been equally uncooperative with the apocalypse narrative. The United Nations reports<\/a> that global life expectancy reached 73.3 years in 2024<\/strong>, up 8.4 years since 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about the absurdity of TIME\u2019s framing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the period in which humanity was supposedly losing its race against climate change, weather-related mortality collapsed, crop production soared, vegetation increased, billions more people were fed, and global life expectancy rose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That doesn\u2019t mean climate change has no effects. It means TIME\u2019s claim that climate is changing \u201cfaster than we can respond\u201d is contradicted by some of the most important measurements of human welfare and resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the underlying BioScience paper recognizes something TIME\u2019s catastrophe narrative obscures. It states that extreme-weather disasters result from interactions between climatic hazards and human social systems, and it lists adaptation measures including cooling centers, flood protection, prescribed burns, irrigation, resilient crops, early-warning systems, coastal protection, and stronger infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, we are responding<\/strong>. And we have been responding extraordinarily well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TIME finishes with the report\u2019s theatrical declaration that we are witnessing the \u201crapid destabilization of the Earth\u2019s climate system\u201d and that this is \u201ca diagnosis of the present.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fine. Then diagnose the patient using all the vital signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t show readers carbon dioxide while hiding crop production. Don\u2019t show a European heat wave while ignoring the century-long collapse in weather mortality. Don\u2019t show selected wildfire seasons while ignoring declining global burned area. Don\u2019t discuss planetary \u201clife-support systems\u201d while neglecting global greening. Don\u2019t claim humanity cannot keep up while life expectancy is rising and human vulnerability to natural disasters has plummeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of all, don\u2019t take a 14-year temperature trend ending in an exceptional temperature spike, compare it with a 90-year historical trend, omit the underlying paper\u2019s own caution about that acceleration, and then tell millions of TIME readers that Earth is careening toward irreversible catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s not reporting climate science responsibly. It\u2019s incompetent and irresponsible climate doom journalism written by a reporter who\u2019s obviously incapable of factual research. TIME\u2019s reporter had an opportunity to interrogate an alarming scientific paper, examine its assumptions, compare its claims against observational records, and ask whether the real-world trajectory of human welfare supports the headline. Instead, she simply amplified the alarm. I\u2019d call it press release regurgitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The climate is changing slowly. Humanity is adapting rapidly. The world is not coming to an end. The only thing accelerating uncontrollably in TIME\u2019s article is the rhetoric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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