Guest Post by: The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, The Heartland Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, and the International Climate Science Coalition, and Truth in Energy and Climate.
Editor’s note: This compilation serves as a fact check on the top false claims made about climate change by the media in May, 2026.
Debunking claims of climate causing ‘less healthy’ food – Melting ice will NOT ‘drown millions’ – Droughts NOT caused by fossil fuels – Earth is NOT spinning slower due to climate change!
Links: The Washington Post article, Leiden University analysis, examples of experiments, Free-Air carbon dioxide enrichment, crop yield increases.
Links: Committee animation, U.S. drought monitor, drought classification, NOAA climate definition.
Links: The Daily Mail post, Nature study, East Antarctica ice gains, IPCC AR6.
Links: IPCC abandoning high-end scenarios, The Washington Post article, The New Republic article, plausibility, coal consumption estimate, proven reserves.
Links: Climate Central report, UHI mping, per on UHI.
Links: BBC article, JGR Solid Earth study, frictional effects, El Niño–Southern Oscillation.
Until next month, enjoy these and other great climate fact checks at:
Sorry, Health ‘Experts’ and The Guardian, Climate Change Isn’t Causing a ‘Public Health Emergency’
The Media is Wrong, Tornadoes Are Not Getting More Frequent or Extreme
Wrong, Guardian, Climate Change Hasn’t Taken New Orleans Beyond the ‘Point of No Return’
POLITICO: ‘Climate hushing’ – ‘The sound of (climate) silence’ – ‘As Trump unravels U.S. climate policy, Dems & enviro groups have grown strangely quiet’
Meet the new Greta…Eva Lighthiser! The 20-year-old airplane flying climate activist suing Trump for ‘violating constitutional rights’
New Study: ‘LGB individuals live in warmer places.’ – Study ‘tests whether lesbian, gay, & bisexual (LGB) individuals inhabit systematically warmer locations than their heterosexual peers’

In honor of Pride Month, the Fullerton Museum Center is hosting three days of activities leading into its fifth annual Pride Fest celebration in Downtown Fullerton this weekend.
The free festival will include vendors, food trucks, a beer garden, two live music stages, and more.
It’s part of our mission to create a safe space for the community to see themselves reflected, not just in the artwork, but in the cultural events, said Fullerton Museum’s Executive Director Elvia Rubalcava. I think last year we had over 3,000 people.
This year, we’re expecting a really good crowd, she added. I think it’s going to be our biggest one yet.
The Be You Fullerton Pride Fest will be held from 2 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 6, at the Fullerton Downtown Plaza, 125 E. Wilshire Ave., next to the museum, and is open to the public for all ages. Attendees are invited to kick off the festivities with the bike parade, which will roll through downtown starting at 1 p.m. from Wilshire Street and Raymond Avenue.
A cosplay fashion show begins at 3:15 p.m. on the Wilshire Street Stage, where participants are encouraged to show off their creativity and self-expression by bringing their favorite characters to life. Various music groups will headline both stages throughout the day.
The Main Plaza Stage will be hosted by MC and drag queen Jewels Long Beach, featuring performances by MenAlive, Orange County’s largest gay men’s chorus, Mariachi Arco Iris de Los Angeles, Santa Ana–based dance studio Soul on Fire, DJ Confetti, and a group drag performance.
Down the road on Wilshire Street, drag queen Alessandra Divine will take the mic with Bread n Butter, a jazz group, followed by a duo drag performance and sets from indie punk band Jurupa and punk band Potential Lunatics.
We have a little bit of everything, Rubalcava said. It’s a very family-friendly event. But first and foremost, we put this event on to honor and acknowledge and celebrate the LGBT-plus community.
Pride Fest will also pay tribute to Fullerton Councilmember Ahmad Zahra, who organizers say has supported the museum and the event since its earliest days, as this marks his final year on the City Council.
Leading up to Saturday, locals are encouraged to bring their friends and attend:

As grocery prices continue to rise nationally, the House on Thursday passed an propriations bill that would cut funding for a program that helps pregnant women and children purchase healthy foods.
By a vote of 213-210, the House passed an propriations measure to fund the Agriculture Department among other agencies. The bill, which the Senate has yet to consider, aims to cut about 1.5 percent from overall federal agriculture spending in fiscal 2027, according to Republicans. Four House Democrats voted with Republicans to pass the measure, while five Republicans voted against it.

Two sisters, owners of EAT Marketplace and Cultivating Good, have a plan to grow food that both feeds and heals our community. You can help.
TEMECULA, CA — Temecula chef Leah Di Bernardo and Cultivating Good owner Joanne Di Bernardo are inviting you to their table, and to a movement to change the world when it comes to farm-to-table as pharmacy.
To do that, they are rebuilding a food system through a Kickstarter campaign and need their village’s help to make dreams a reality.
Her $200,000 fundraiser will go towards building greenhouses and a community marketplace on a working farm in Pala, and towards a regenerative, working farm that becomes a living classroom. In thanks, they offer levels of support in the form of coffee, farm tours, private cooking lessons, and even your name in the credits of a documentary film or on a greenhouse in lasting tribute, among other layers of sponsorship.
Leah Di Bernardo’s enthusiasm about the project is infectious. She has put her “food as medicine ” theories into practice with everyone she feeds at her Temecula restaurant, EAT Marketplace.
“EAT sources directly from farmers we know by name. We were named Business of the Year in 2006, have led over 24 school garden programs in our region, spearheaded the first middle school Slow Food chter in the nation, and have built relationships with Alice Waters and the Slow Food Foundation in Bra, Italy. Over two decades of proving that food done right —good, clean, fair— is not only possible but necessary.”
The Di Bernardo sisters believe that their corporation, Cultivating Good, exists to be a force for good in the food system and an homage to their sister, Deborah, one of the first women in America to build a fully organic, fair-trade, shade-grown coffee company from the ground up. “The vision was the values, and we carry her forward in everything we build, CFO Joanne Di Bernardo said.
Cultivating Good exists to be a force for good in the food system and the next chter of their multigenerational story.
“We are building something that has never been done quite this way,” she said. “A replicable model that starts here in Temecula and is designed ot travel anywhere in the world that is willing to do this right.”
The goal is to raise $200,000 to secure rights to land, a greenhouse, farm infrastructure, and a farm-direct community marketplace build out for a living classroom where chefs, culinary students, and community members can walk the land, attend agritours and experience regenerative agriculture firsthand.
“Every dollar raised will build the farm expansion in an operation dedicated to growing the food that feeds our community,” she said. “It’s a living classroom, as much as a working farm.”
Di Bernardo says that her EAT restaurant was just the first chter of this major project that includes growing healthy food that feeds us, without pesticides, herbicides and “industrial shortcuts.
“Have you noticed that your groceries cost twice as much as they did five years ago, and yet the food tastes like half as much? Your food is not actually feeding you,” she says in her fundraising campaign. “Food has so much to do with our mental health. The food we are eating now doesn’t have the same nutritional value that it had when I was a kid. As a chef, I have an obligation to care about what I put on your plate.”
With farmer and fellow chef Sonny Alcaron, they will use land that is already in process to grow food. “It is a place to learn, connect, and reimagine what agriculture can be. We are building a living classroom — open to the doctors EAT partners with, to children through our school garden programs, to community members, chefs, culinary students, and anyone who has ever wondered what it actually looks like when food is grown the right way.”
Want to help? Visit the Kickstarter Campaign or drop by EAT Marketplace.

The New World screwworm fly has reached south Texas, the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed Wednesday, the first time in decades that the parasite with flesh-eating larvae has threatened the nation’s cattle industry and only the third time it’s peared in the U.S. in that time.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the case was in a 3-week-old calf in La Pryor, Texas, about 50 miles from the Mexico border. Texas State Veterinarian Bud Dinges said he has established a 12-mile quarantine zone, prohibiting the movement of any warm-blooded animal — including pets — outside that zone without an inspection.
Rollins said there have been no other detections of the fly in the U.S., and officials were quick to say that while the fly’s larvae are a threat to livestock production, they don’t infest food. Properly treated, even the infested calf should recover, Rollins said.
Rollins, U.S. and Texas agriculture officials, and cattle industry leaders have been sounding public alarms about the fly’s movement across Mexico for more than a year, spurred on by memories of it causing tens of millions of dollars of losses — potentially billions in today’s dollars — before its eradication in the 1970s.
It is the first case confirmed in Texas since 1966, Rollins said.
The months of effort to keep the fly out of the U.S. have included dropping millions of sterile screwworm flies in the area to mate with wild females — the same method used successfully before the fly was eradicated. Rollins said the USDA is confident enough in its preparations that it believes there is no threat of mass infestation.
There is no reason to believe this incursion will result in establishment of the pest in our country, Rollins said.
The announcement of the suspected case comes only a day after Rollins had an online news conference to highlight the nearness of the threat, with cases being confirmed in Mexico as close as 25 miles from the border — and to outline the USDA’s efforts to combat it.
The New World Screwworm fly is a tropical species that decades ago infested cattle in warm weather across the southern United States, but it was contained in Panama until late in 2024.
The female fly lays its eggs in open wounds or mucous membranes and they hatch into larvae that eat flesh — making them unlike most fly species — and can infest livestock, wild mammals, household pets and even humans. Infestations can lead to death if left untreated.
In August 2025, federal health officials confirmed a case in a Maryland resident who had traveled to El Salvador, but the victim recovered and officials found no transmission of the parasite. Before that, the last outbreak was in the Florida Keys in September 2016, mostly among wild deer, and it was contained early the next year without spreading further.
The female flies mate once in their monthslong lives, and if they do so with a sterile fly, their eggs would not hatch — and the population would die out over time. Past eradication efforts were so successful that the U.S. shut down facilities for breeding sterile flies, leaving only one in Panama for decades.
That is changing. The USDA dedicated $21 million to convert a fruit-fly breeding facility in southern Mexico into one for breeding screwworm flies, opened a new center for dispersing sterile flies bred elsewhere in southern Texas and has started construction on a $750 million screwworm fly factory there. The breeding facility in Mexico should be operating next month, Rollins said.
Officials also deployed 8,000 fly trs along the U.S.-Mexico border, and Rollins said the USDA has tested more than 58,000 fly samples, along with 19,000 wild animals.
Rollins also closed the U.S.-Mexico border last year to livestock imports from Mexico, a decision she defended during her news conference Tuesday. The fly also can travel with people and their pets and with wild animals, officials noted, but Rollins stressed Wednesday evening that it doesn’t fly great distances on its own.
Dinges said ranchers and pet owners need to understand that it’s important to respect the quarantine zone.
Please help us prevent any further movement of this pest by staying put, he said.