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

Breitbart misrepresents research from 58 scientific papers to falsely claim that they disprove human-caused global warming

"This article grossly misinterprets open-access scientific papers by simply looking at graphs and entirely ignoring their meaning as explained by authors in the text.

Playing semantics, misleading Breitbart article downplays US contribution to climate change

"This whole post is based on semantics and basically one big strawman fallacy. The author is deliberately confusing air pollution from suspended particulate matter (as discussed in..

In Paris Agreement op-ed, US Senator Ted Cruz misrepresents the costs and benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Sen. Cruz’s article cites a single report that assessed only the costs of climate actions, relying on a series of assumptions that maximized those estimated costs, and that exclu...

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Latest Claim Reviews

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

Rick Perry, CNBC

"more than 100 per cent of the warming over the past century is due to human actions"

Michael Le Page, New Scientist

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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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