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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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Guardian story accurately describes study on environmental impacts of our food system
The Guardian
"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..
- 10 Oct. 2018
Guardian story conveys statement by scientists stressing role of deforestation in climate change
The Guardian
"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..
- 4 Oct. 2018
USA Today op-ed ignores evidence to claim climate change had no role in Hurricane Florence
USA Today
This op-ed in USA Today makes the claim that Hurricane Florence has no appreciable contribution from human-caused climate change. Scientists who reviewed the article found that it...
- 14 Sept. 2018
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"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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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...
- 2018-03-16
Most popular climate change stories of 2017 reviewed by scientists
Many stories were written about climate science in 2017, but were the ones that “went viral” scientifically accurate? To find out, we compiled a list of articles with the most ...
- 2018-01-17
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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...
- 2018-08-27
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...
- 2017-09-19
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