About this site.
EnviroTruth publishes plain-language environmental explainers. Climate, water chemistry, biotech food, plastics, and direct-action history. The structure is small on purpose — one page per topic that actually matters, written so a non-specialist can read it without first being convinced of anything.
Where the data comes from
Every chart on this site is built at site-build time from the Open-Meteo Archive API, which serves ECMWF's ERA5 reanalysis under a CC BY 4.0 licence. The fetch script lives in the repository under scripts/fetch-climate.mjs; the city list, the date range, and the aggregation method are all visible there. Re-running the script and rebuilding the site is what produces an updated chart. We do not call any external API at page-load time.
Editorial standards
- Every factual claim that depends on a primary source names that source on the same page.
- Charts show the data; the trend line is a simple ordinary-least-squares fit, marked as such.
- Where a topic is publicly contested, the page acknowledges the contest and lists the principal positions rather than picking one.
- Where a topic has a clear scientific or legal consensus, the page states that consensus plainly and points at the documentation.
- We do not run advertising and we do not take operator placement.
What this site is not
It is not a campaigning organisation, an industry trade group, or a peer-reviewed journal. It does not produce primary research. It is an editorial reference for people who want a short, sourced overview before going deeper.
Contact
Corrections, source pointers, and well-reasoned disagreements are welcome by email at [email protected].