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

Daily Wire article misunderstands study on carbon budget (along with Fox News, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Breitbart…)

"The article selectively quotes from interviews and scientific papers to create the false perception that climate models significantly overestimate the rate of warming. The article..

Global Warming and fire suppression practices boost wildfires in the US West, as correctly reported in The Atlantic

"The article provides an excellent summary of how rising air temperatures are leading to drier conditions and more fire activity among forests in parts of the western United States..

The Atlantic accurately explores climate context for Tropical Storm Harvey

"A well written article that captures the essence of our understanding that under climate change storms will likely bring more rainfall. In the case of Harvey, all we can say is th..

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Latest Claim Reviews

"Most of the recent warming could be natural"

Jennifer Marohasy, The Spectator

"[climate scientists] say that aspects of the case of Hurricane Harvey suggest global warming is making a bad situation worse."

Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic

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Insights

False claim that global warming is natural propagates in a climate misinformation echo-chamber

The diagram below shows that the articles mostly rely heavily on each other—like in an echo chamber—with very few outside sources included in the reporting. A first wave of “...

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...

News & Events

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...

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...

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