Podcaster and former UFC commentator Joe Rogan isn’t exactly known for his scientific expertise, but Rogan’s recent claim that the Earth is cooling—ignoring decades of empirical evidence for global warming—is so egregious that climate experts are straight up roasting him for it.

In several recent episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan has used a temperature graph in a Washington Post article in order to claim that global temperatures are actually plummeting. The graph in question comes from a 2024 study published in the journal Science , in which researchers show a record of Earth’s global mean surface temperature over the last 485 million years. The problem, according to one of the study’s own authors—as well as a host of other experts—is that Rogan has completely misinterpreted

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