Summary: Editors say climate alarmism overlooks improving climate signals and selective reporting

# Quick summary Editors at Issues & Insights assembled a set of recent observations and statements that they say contradict mainstream climate alarm narratives. The items they highlight include an unusually quiet Atlantic hurricane season, improving indicators for the Great Barrier Reef, satellite-based global greening, and a former reporter's admission that she suppressed positive climate coverage.

# What the editors reported The compilation points to four concrete items.

• Atlantic hurricanes: The piece notes that, at the time of reporting, there had been zero Atlantic hurricanes and that this is the deepest point into hurricane season without one in 112 years. The editors argue the media largely ignored this because it did not fit a global warming narrative.

• Great Barrier Reef: The reef is described as having gone through its best five years on record. The editors cite Danish researcher Bjorn Lomborg to say that official reef-wide statistics had been "widely published as the Great Barrier Reef got worse," and that publication of statistics stopped when data indicated improvement.

• Global vegetation greening: A study published in Nature is cited to show that vegetation greenness has increased globally since at least 1981, with global vegetation models attributing the main driver to CO2 fertilization. The scale of additional greenery is described as equivalent to the contiguous United States multiplied four times.

• Reporter confession on story selection: Lucy Biggers, a former climate activist and reporter who now leads social media at The Free Press, is quoted saying she "never covered positive climate stories because it would muddy the message that climate change was an existential threat." She said that covering positive developments would "give fodder to climate change deniers," and that many reporters remain agenda-driven in similar ways.

# How the editors frame these facts The editors use these items to argue that at least some media coverage has been selective—emphasizing negative stories and de-emphasizing or ignoring positive signs. They present the examples as a partial list of inconvenient facts that, in their view, stand in the way of alarmist messaging.

# Related items referenced The piece connects to other recent items and commentary, including articles that question mainstream climate narratives, claims of flawed climate studies, and reporting about controversy surrounding climate-focused groups. Those related links reinforce the framing that skepticism about alarmist claims is growing in some corners of the media and commentary world.

# Practical takeaway