Scientific Reference to Reliable Information on Climate Change - Climate Feedback

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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 Article Reviews

Washington Post accurately describes ocean warming study with potential implications for future carbon budget

The Washington Post

"The Washington Post article accurately reports the results and links to other topics using reliable sources. Quotations from Pieter Tans and Paul Durack add important caveats show..

Guardian story accurately describes study on environmental impacts of our food system

"Although the presented facts are clear, the scientists give a personal interpretation of the priorities and needed policies, which are not covered in the source. The data give add..

Guardian story conveys statement by scientists stressing role of deforestation in climate change

"The article correctly links estimates of current carbon dioxide emissions from land use and land cover change with fairly conservative estimates for potential carbon sequestration..

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Latest Claim Reviews

"The rate of warming according to the data is much slower than the models used by the IPCC"

Myron Ebell, BBC Newsnight

"California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren’t allowing massive amounts of readily available water to be properly utilized. It is being diverted into the Pacific Ocean."

President Donald Trump, Twitter

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Insights

Sky News Australia airs false climate information in misleading video by Rowan Dean

"While the variations in the Sun’s magnetic activity (leading to small variations in solar radiation reaching the Earth) have some discernible effect on our climate, their impact..

A discussion with experts on California wildfire links to climate change

In many of these conversations, the question is framed in a fairly reductionist way: “Did global warming cause the California fires?” A more nuanced and scientifically-answerab...

News & Events

Climate Feedback accredited by the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter for the second year

Climate Feedback has received accreditation by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at The Poynter Institute for the second year. Climate Feedback is the first and only a...

Poynter Training “SciFacts II: Fact-Checking Claims About Science”

Tuesday, October 17, 9 a.m. -5 p.m The National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The Poynter Institute will host a free one-day workshop to discuss the key challenges of repor...

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