Climate Feedback – A Scientific Reference to Reliable Information on Climate Change

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WHAT WE DO

Climate Feedback is a worldwide network of scientists sorting fact from fiction in climate change media coverage. Our goal is to help readers know which news to trust.

Latest Claim Reviews

Scientists have found that modern climate change is caused entirely by human activity, contrary to recent speculation by Joe Rogan

“The question is, ‘how much of an impact do we have on [climate]?’ That has not totally been quantified”; climate change is happening anyway, “The ice age happened without us…It’s probably this constant cycle”.

Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience

- 11 Oct 2022

The Epoch Times prints a range of inaccurate and misleading claims about climate change’s impacts and causes

CO₂ is not the cause of our current warming trend; Arctic sea ice has expanded in recent years; Polar bears’ population is growing and is not threatened by climate change; CO₂ is good for plant life

Patrick Moore, The Epoch Times

- 20 Sep 2022

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Latest Article Reviews

Wall Street Journal op-ed by Steven Koonin publishes misleading claims about how climate change influences Greenland ice melt

Wall Street Journal

Human-caused climate change is already accelerating Greenland’s melting and is predicted to continue to accelerate it in the future. In addition to Greenland, most glaciers aroun...

PragerU video on climate change repeats a range of misleading claims by Steven Koonin

"The author of this video, Dr. Steven Koonin, says he is following the scientific reports published by the UN and US government, but by subtly changing wording and choosing not to ..

Rain fell on Greenland summit for the first time on record, as accurately reported by CNN

"The article is highly factual. One issue that we have is the lack of data over the Greenland Ice Sheet (both spatially and temporally). Thus some of the claims, although backed by..

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Insights

Wind turbines can kill birds, but not as many as fossil fuels and other anthropogenic impacts

“It is true that renewable energy developments like solar and wind farms (along with the power lines to connect them to the grid) can impact negatively on birds and other wildlif...

Here’s what we know about how climate change impacts hurricanes – and what we don’t

The uncertainty surrounding how hurricane frequency could change as the climate warms has been brought up in claims seeking to undermine climate change’s impact on hurricanes. Th...

News & Events

Google’s demonetization of misinformation: one year on

ProPublica finds that Google still monetizes many websites and articles that promote harmful misinformation, much of which is in direct breach of its stated demonetization policy. ...

Introducing the Climate Science Desk, Science Feedback’s new portal to help journalists verify climate claims

Supported by the Climate Misinformation Grant Program from the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the Poynter Institute, Science Feedback is launching the Climate Scienc...

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