Climate Feedback
Verifying the credibility of claims related to climate change, the environment and Earth sciences.
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IncorrectWhat is peer-review? Why one ‘peer-reviewed’ Grok-written paper doesn’t disprove climate change
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The first-ever artificial intelligence-led peer-reviewed climate science paper has confirmed that climate change is a hoax.
Source: Science of Climate Change, David Legates, Willie Soon, Jonathan Cohler, Franklin Soon, 2025-03-21 -
InaccurateLong-lasting contrails aren’t proof of chemtrails, and they aren’t caused by aluminum, barium, or other metals
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Aircraft are spraying chemical gas with traces of aluminum, barium, and other metals to manipulate the weather by blocking the sun and creating chemical rains and fogs.
Source: Facebook, Social media user, 2025-02-14 -
Wildfires in LA influenced by Santa Ana winds and dry vegetation; climate change a likely factor, contrary to viral misinformation
Wildfires occur when several unfortunate conditions align; they cannot be blamed on one factor alone, contrary to recent misinformation. Climate change increases the risk and severity of wildfires by worsening the conditions that lead and sustain them (e.g., arid/dry conditions).
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MisleadingEarth was hotter in the past, but that doesn’t make humans safer from modern climate change
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It is not too hot now. Temperatures and CO2 are lower now than they have been throughout nearly the entire history of the Earth.
Source: Wide Awake Media, X/Twitter, Patrick Moore, 2025-01-07 -
InaccurateTire fires in Kuwait have a much smaller climate influence than methane emissions from cows, contrary to claims
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Cow farts [methane emissions from cattle] are blamed for climate change, but there are bigger issues like people burning millions of tires in the deserts of Kuwait.
Source: Instagram, Social media users, 2024-11-23 -
InaccurateNo, marine emissions study didn’t find that climate change is ‘greatly overestimated’, contrary to recent claims
Claim:
New study shows that climate change is greatly overestimated because oceans are cooling Earth far more than we thought
Source: Studyfinds.org, Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, 2024-12-10
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Is vehicle pollution still a problem? Yes, here’s why it still harms health and climate
Individual vehicle emissions have improved through tighter regulations and better technologies, but vehicle pollution is an ongoing issue that harms human health and worsens climate change.
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If sea levels are rising, why is the Maldives still above water?
If you want to see the front lines of climate change, you might think to look at the Maldives. Most…
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Global warming doesn’t mean everywhere is warming at the same rate, here’s why
Global warming may mean something different than you think. One misconception is that global warming means ‘all places on Earth are warming equally’, but this is not the case. In reality, global warming means that average global temperatures are rising over decades or more. Earth’s uneven heating means that some places warm faster or slower than the average global temperature rise over a given period.