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“Not Even True”: Fact-checking Buck Sexton’s climate aside inside an AI doom episode
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Claim: current climate change is not unprecedented, which Buck Sexton called "not even true." Verdict: mostly-false (truth score 0.2, confidence 0.9).
Fact-checked: The Buck Sexton Show, "Buck Brief — Will AI Destroy Humanity Like Skynet in Terminator?" (10 September 2026, at 1:17).
The episode is about AI, not climate. It came out one day after researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and warned that frontier labs are "gambling with our lives." Sexton's argument is an analogy: climate scientists had career incentives to sound…
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