Wall Street Journal articles on 2016 heat record send contradicting messages
On January 18, NASA and NOAA released the data showing that 2016 was the warmest year on record in both…
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How to make sure a Q&A with a scientist doesn’t misrepresent science
“When interviewing scientists, journalists need to make it clear to readers whether the resulting article is based on opinion or science. It is not sufficient to assume that an interview with an individual scientist will result in a science-based article”
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When a sensational headline contradicts an article's message
“Sarah Knapton has written a reasonably well-balanced article, however, this article was placed under a misleading headline. The headline could just as easily have been: “Experts said that simplistic extrapolations of sea ice loss had little predictive value—and they were right.””
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Insight into the scientific credibility of The Guardian climate coverage
Over the past two months, Climate Feedback has asked its network of scientists to review 5 widely read articles published…
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The most popular 2015 articles on climate published in Forbes are inaccurate and misleading
Recently, scientists analyzed some of Forbes’ most influential climate articles for 2015. While one article was rated as highly accurate,…
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How much do the presidential candidates know about climate change?
Climate change will be a hot topic during the 2016 presidential election campaign. The candidates have already started talking about…
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The Telegraph issues a public correction after scientists point to inaccuracies
A few days after Climate Feedback published an analysis of Dan Hyde’s article “Earth heading for ‘mini ice age’ within…
