"For months now, the popular comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan has been telling his vast audience of a study that shows Earth is cooling even though this research states the complete opposite. Rogan's false claim about the climate crisis, which he has repeatedly aired on the Joe Rogan Experience, one of the world's most popular podcasts, has exasperated the scientists who authored the research."
"It has also highlighted the tide of climate misinformation that regularly emanates from some of the biggest podcasts in the US outlets where many Americans, particularly younger people, now get their news. Joe is speaking to his audience and they want it to be entertaining, I get it, but it concerns me because he isn't giving the right message, said Jessica Tierney, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Arizona and co-author of the research frequently mentioned by Rogan."
A high-profile podcaster repeatedly presented a false claim that Earth is cooling, drawing frustration from the scientists behind the referenced study. Scientists warn that large-audience podcasts can spread climate misinformation that reaches many Americans, especially younger listeners. A research team reconstructed Earth's temperature over 485 million years using about 150,000 data points, including fossil records and climate models. The reconstruction shows major climate shifts across deep time, including far hotter eras and mass extinctions. The current rapid global heating is attributed to burning fossil fuels and deforestation occurring primarily within the last century.
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