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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

Forbes article accurately describes research on Atlantic ocean circulation weakening, but headline goes farther

"This is an accurate, concise summary of the slowdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and its possible future states. There are a couple of minor issues: ..

Wall Street Journal op-ed on economic consequences of climate change found naive by scientists

The Wall Street Journal

"This is a very simplistic, almost naive op-ed on climate change impacts. Some assertions such as the one about CO2 being good for plants demonstrates that the authors do not know ..

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...

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Latest Claim Reviews

"according, again, to the official figures—during this past 10 years, if anything, mean global temperature, average world temperature, has slightly declined"

Lord Nigel Lawson, BBC

"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

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Insights

BBC Today airs false statements by Lord Lawson in the name of balance

On Thursday August 10, BBC Radio 4’s “Today” broadcasted an interview in which Nigel Lawson commented on Al Gore’s new film sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth”—and on G...

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.

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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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