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

The sun isn’t responsible for current climate change, contrary to claims in Suspicious0bservers YouTube video

Scientists have neglected the effect of solar particles, cosmic rays, the interplanetary magnetic field and Earth's weakening magnetic field to conclude climate change is due to human activity

Ben Davidson, Suspicious0bservers

- 29 Jul 2022

Warming of Earth’s surface and oceans continues apace, contrary to claims in blog

”Global warming started to run out of steam over two decades ago… Half of the apparent global temperature increase from January 1910 to January 2000 is due to administrative adjustments.”

Chris Morrison, Daily Sceptic

- 09 Jun 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

Yes, plants need carbon dioxide. No, that doesn’t mean it’s harmless.

“The benefit[s] of increasing CO2 concentrations for plant growth are increasingly being outweighed by the negative impacts, especially of global warming. This is true for natura...

Water scarcity in a changing climate: will drought get worse with warming?

"The thing to remember is that drought is a very complex phenomenon. For one, drought is not just precipitation. Drought is also soil moisture and streamflow. This is an important ..

News & Events

More than 80 fact-checking organizations call on YouTube to tackle misinformation

“The examples are too many to count. Many of those videos and channels remain online today, and they all went under the radar of YouTube’s policies, especially in non-English s...

Perugia International Journalism Festival: media, news and the future of climate change

This panel will address these topics with experts coming from some of the leading experiences in the field that encompasses the communication of climate change for public opinion a...

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