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+# Climate Misinformation Claims Dataset
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+This dataset contains labeled climate-related claims designed for climate misinformation detection and claim classification.
+It was constructed by combining:
+* The Climate Fever dataset (crowdsourced climate claims with evidence)
+* Claims sourced from Science Feedback, collected via web scraping
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+The final dataset is split into training, validation, and test sets, and is intended for supervised machine learning tasks such as:
+* Claim veracity classification
+* Climate misinformation detection
+* NLP benchmarking on climate discourse
+
+## Limitations
+* Claims are English-only
+* Science Feedback claims reflect editorial selection bias
+* Labels may depend on the scientific consensus at the time of publication
+
+## Licensing and Usage Restrictions
+* Climate Fever:
+  * Released under its original license (see original repository)
+* Science Feedback:
+  *Claims extracted from publicly available pages
+  * Dataset intended for research and non-commercial use
+  * Original content remains property of Science Feedback