Joe Fucking Rogan Can't Read A Graph, So He's Repeatedly Stated That Earth Is Cooling

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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.

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The current period of rapid global heating, caused by the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation in just the last century, is shown on this vast timeline as a comparatively small upward tick at the end of the graph, following a span of relative planetary cooling that followed the demise of dinosaurs.

Rogan has seized upon this temperature graph, as shown in a Washington Post article, to claim big swings in previous temperatures demonstrate concerns over current climate change are overblown. “There’s a lot of horseshit that’s involved in climate change, I’ve studied that,” Rogan told actor Mel Gibson on the Joe Rogan Experience in January. “The temperature on Earth is plummeting. Look at the drop at the end, that’s where we are. That’s the reality.”

To agreement from Gibson – whose house burned down by fires in Los Angeles on the day the podcast was recorded, a disaster scientists say was worsened by global heating – Rogan added that the world’s temperature has always fluctuated. “This idea that the whole thing is based on carbon emissions from humans is total bullshit, it’s not true,” he said. Since this conversation, Rogan has raised the topic of the temperature graph on five further episodes, including to his guest Bernie Sanders in June. “Essentially they found that we’re in a cooling period,” Rogan said to the US senator of the researchers’ work. “This was, like, a very inconvenient discovery. But they had to report the data and kudos to them for doing that.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/04/joe-rogan-climate-cooling-misinformation