Ex-Climate Reporter Blows Whistle, Reveals News Outlets’ Sinister Green Strategy

A former climate reporter says she deliberately avoided positive climate stories because they threatened to complicate the dominant narrative that climate change posed an existential threat.

Lucy Biggers, who previously worked as a climate journalist and activist before joining The Free Press, said the pressure was not necessarily handed down by editors. Instead, she described a culture in which reporters could censor themselves to avoid challenging accepted views.

“When I was a climate reporter, I never covered positive climate stories because it would ‘muddy the narrative’ that climate change was an existential threat,” Lucy Biggers wrote Tuesday on X. “No one told me to behave this way. I chose to do this of my own volition.”

Biggers pointed to the unusually quiet 2026 Atlantic hurricane season as an example of the kind of development she believes gets less attention when it does not fit a catastrophe-driven storyline.

“I think this is why we rarely see events like this year’s historically quiet eastern hurricane season covered widely by the news,” Biggers wrote. “Many reporters believe covering it will ‘give fodder to climate change deniers.’”

The Atlantic reached the traditional peak of hurricane season in September without producing a hurricane, an unusual milestone in the modern satellite era.

National Hurricane Center data showed no Atlantic tropical cyclones active as of Sept. 12, while several major outlets also reported on the historically slow start.

Biggers said the larger problem was what she described as self-imposed conformity inside climate journalism.

When I was a climate reporter I never covered positive climate stories because it would “muddy the narrative” that climate change was an existential threat.

No one told me to behave this way. I chose to do this of my own volition.

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— Lucy Biggers (@LLBiggers) September 15, 2026

“It was mostly soft self-censorship. I knew what the accepted beliefs of the climate movement were, and I wasn’t going to stick my neck out and challenge them. That would have been so much work and threatened my standing within the group,” Biggers, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“So I ignored anything that challenged the mainstream understanding of climate change anything positive about plastics, fossil fuels, or capitalism. I stayed away from those topics because I was protecting my own neck and wanted to fit in with the group,” Biggers said.

She previously described herself as a climate activist and said she spent years accepting claims from the movement without seriously questioning them.

“I would say it is still common today. You can see it with the quiet east coast hurricane season we’re experiencing right now. Nobody is covering it in the same way they would if we were having a very active hurricane season on the East Coast,” Biggers told DCNF.

“If that were happening, we would never hear the end of it. But because the story doesn’t confirm a dangerous climate catastrophe, newsrooms are less inclined to cover it.”

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Meteorologists have attributed much of the unusually quiet season to a strong El Niño pattern, which can increase vertical wind shear over the tropical Atlantic and make it more difficult for hurricanes to form and strengthen.

The season was not over, however. The official Atlantic hurricane season runs through Nov. 30.

Biggers said her own views began changing after she reconsidered how little she had challenged the assumptions surrounding her earlier reporting.

“I basically spent half my twenties, kind of just buying everything as it was sold to me. Never really investigating,” Biggers said during a May appearance on TRIGGERnometry.

She said she once accepted the idea that climate change represented an existential threat despite not having what she now considers a deep understanding of climate science.

“That was how turned off my critical thinking was, because I was getting so much support from being part of this movement that I just pushed it,” Biggers said.

Biggers’ criticism does not mean the quiet hurricane season went completely ignored. The Associated Press, CBS News, The Washington Post and The New York Times were among the major outlets that covered the lack of Atlantic hurricanes.

Her argument instead centers on what she sees as a broader imbalance in how climate stories are selected and emphasized.

“Climate reporters now frequently cover studies that project a frightening future without looking at the empirical evidence we already have,” Biggers said.

The White House also jumped into the conversation after meteorologist Chris Martz highlighted the historic season on social media.

“Thank you, President Trump!” the White House’s Rapid Response 47 account wrote on X Sunday.

Biggers said she believes dramatic weather events receive far more sustained attention than developments that cut against expectations of worsening disasters.

“When frightening weather occurs, the news harps on it endlessly. The positive stories are rarely covered at all,” Biggers said.

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