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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

USA Today story accurate but lacks clarity regarding timescales over which warming could be underestimated

"An accurate and balanced article that gives readers a good flavour of the research but the reference to “Earth’s history” might confuse some when it otherwise refers to the ..

Daily Mail correctly reports that climate change leads to more severe heatwaves, but explanation of recent weather is off the mark

"Mostly this article is accurate in its reporting of the recent heat over North America and Eurasia. However, there are a few misleading statements, including the headline, that ex..

Financial Post commentary misleads about warming effect of greenhouse gas emissions by cherry-picking studies

"This is an opinion piece in the "lukewarm" category, arguing that climate models are wrong, future warming will be small, based on carefully selected publications, misleading pres..

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Latest Claim Reviews

"There isn’t yet any empirical evidence for their claim that greenhouse gases even cause temperatures to increase."

Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show

"We know that humans have most flourished during times of, what, warming trends. I think there are assumptions made that because the climate is warming, that that is necessarily a bad thing."

Scott Pruitt, KSNV NBC Las Vegas

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Insights

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...

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 ...

News & Events

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...

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...

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