Climate Feedback – A Scientific Reference to Reliable Information on Climate Change

Accurate information is the foundation of a functioning democracy

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 Epoch Times prints a range of inaccurate and misleading claims about climate change’s impacts and causes

CO₂ is not the cause of our current warming trend; Arctic sea ice has expanded in recent years; Polar bears’ population is growing and is not threatened by climate change; CO₂ is good for plant life

Patrick Moore, The Epoch Times

- 20 Sep 2022

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

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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

Different parts of the planet warm more quickly than others. That doesn’t mean climate change isn’t happening.

If you’re even a casual consumer of climate news, you probably know that some parts of the globe are warming more rapidly than others. Scientists have known for years, for instan...

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...

News & Events

Introducing the Climate Science Desk, Science Feedback’s new portal to help journalists verify climate claims

Supported by the Climate Misinformation Grant Program from the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the Poynter Institute, Science Feedback is launching the Climate Scienc...

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...

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