Climate Feedback

This article is about the fact-checking website. For feedbacks in the climate systems, see climate change feedback.
Climate Feedback
Type of site
Fact-checking website
OwnerScience Feedback
URLscience.feedback.org/climate-feedback/
Current statusActive

Climate Feedback (CF) is a web-based content annotation tool that allows qualified scientists to comment on stories online, adding context and noting inaccuracies.[1][2] It is one of three websites under the Science Feedback parent organization that fact-checks media coverage. Science Feedback is a non-profit organization registered in France.[3]

The CF website asks climate scientists in relevant fields to assess the credibility and accuracy of media stories related to climate change.[2][4] The website published its first review in 2015.[4] The website was founded by Emmanuel Vincent, who has a PhD in Oceanography & Climate from Université Pierre et Marie Curie.[5] Vincent partnered with the non-profit Hypothes.is, who created a free Internet browser plug-in that allows users to make sentence-level comments on web pages, to create an evaluation of content. Climate Feedback, an application of the Hypothes.is platform to climate science communication, allows active climate scientists to add comments.[6]

  1. ^ "Tools That Fight Disinformation Online". rand.org. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
  2. ^ a b Willyard, Cassandra (1 February 2018). "At Climate Feedback, scientists encourage better science reporting. But who is listening?". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  3. ^ Uzunoğlu, Sarphan (25 March 2024). "Science Feedback, IFCN Code of Principles". ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.org. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  4. ^ a b Harder, Amy (25 June 2018). "Why climate change is the easiest news to fake". Axios. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  5. ^ Funke, Daniel (29 November 2018). "This fact-checker got several news outlets to correct a false story about a mini-Ice Age". Poynter Institute. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  6. ^ Wanucha, Genevieve (2 December 2014). "Improving media coverage of climate science". MIT News, Oceans at MIT. Retrieved 5 August 2024.