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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.

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2017 is on track to be among the hottest year recorded, scientists are not as surprised as ThinkProgress article suggests

The scientists who have reviewed the article confirm it accurately reports that 2017 is on track to being one of the warmest years on record. Reviewers note this wasn’t as unexpe...

Scientists explain what New York Magazine article on “The Uninhabitable Earth” gets wrong

New York Magazine

"While it is clear that ongoing warming of the global climate would eventually have very severe consequences, the concept of the Earth becoming uninhabitable within anywhere near t..

Breitbart article falsely claims that measured global warming has been “fabricated”

"In a cursory attempt at both reporting and climate science, the author glibly highlights a document heavy on accusation and light on reasoned engagement with fact. Implying nefari..

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Latest Claim Reviews

"Trump's action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees, and raining sulphuric acid."

Stephen Hawking, BBC

"Most likely the primary control knob [on climate change] is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in."

Rick Perry, CNBC

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Insights

How sea ice can still be thick in places in a warming Arctic

The simple fact that baffles Breitbart author: global warming doesn’t mean that every square inch of ice has already melted.

Report Heartland Institute sent to influence US teachers on climate change earns an “F” from scientists

"This document could be used in the classroom to teach students about deliberate misinformation and how to identify it.

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

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

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

The Poynter Institute is hosting a free one-day workshop to discuss the key challenges of reporting the facts about science. This workshop is specifically designed for reporters wh...

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