Summarised by Centrist
The Daily Sceptic’s Chris Morrison says climate coverage is collapsing. Citing the latest data from the Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO) at the University of Colorado Boulder, he writes that last year saw a “14% global slump in climate-related stories compared to 2024”, which was already “38% down on peak Greta hysteria in 2021”.
He says the biggest falls came in Africa, the Middle East and North America, and that after the November 2025 COP30 meeting, coverage in Latin America, Oceania and the EU “fell off a cliff”.
For Morrison, there is only so long people will keep reading “identical, narrative-driven drivel” and calls much of it “an insult to the intelligence”. He mocks the old style of climate coverage with examples like the BBC’s “Climate change could make beer taste worse”, and says readers have enjoyed “a merciful break from the relentless cacophony of climate catastrophising”.
He also argues the media retreat is showing up in staffing decisions. In the US, he says “the sackings have started with a vengeance”, claiming CBS removed most of its climate crisis team and that in February 2026 the Washington Post “cut 14 climate writing positions, leaving only five journalists in place”.
Morrison attacks journalism training that warns against “false balance”, saying it effectively means “denying publicity to sceptical scientists”. He says the wider system was built to drive fear around what he calls the “invented climate crisis”.
“The world is getting tired of clickbait, centrally-determined climate claptrap,” he writes, which has propped up the “Net Zero fantasy”.
