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

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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 Claim Reviews

Earth’s surface continues to warm due to greenhouse gas emissions, contrary to claims by Christopher Monckton in Watts Up With That

“...Seven and a half years have passed since there was any trend in global warming at all” If global warming was caused by human emissions, temperature would rise at a steady rate

Christopher Monckton, Watts Up With That

- 11 Apr 2022

More than 75 percent of the Amazon rainforest is losing resilience, as described by the Washington Post

More than 75 percent of the rainforest is losing resilience; More than half of the rainforest could be converted into savanna in a matter of decades

Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post

- 15 Mar 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

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 ..

How sea ice in the Arctic and the Antarctic is influenced by climate change

“The decreases have accelerated since the 1990s and have been part of a consistent suite of changes in the Arctic, including rising atmospheric temperatures, melting land ice, th...

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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