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r/climate

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

295.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 29.8K upvotes, which works out to 101 per 1,000 members.

101peak upvotes per 1,000 members
295.8Kmembers
29.8Kbest post
4.5Kmost comments
564posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

98%
Link 98% Video 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

politics 19 science 2 activism 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Milton Is the Hurricane That Scientists Were Dreading

↑ 29.8K 💬 4.5K link 2024

In 1997 Al Gore released one of the first reports directed towards the general public on global warming. At the time he was laughed at and ignored.…

↑ 21.9K 💬 657 link 2025

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports | Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

↑ 16.7K 💬 1.2K link 2024

Electing Kamala Harris over Trump is necessary to save the planet and ourselves

↑ 14K 💬 952 link 2024

Climate Groups Warn Third-Party Vote 'Could Hand Our Planet's Future Over to Trump'

↑ 13.3K 💬 1.5K link 2024

Bill Gates on why he’ll carry on using private jets and campaigning on climate change

↑ 12.3K 💬 2.8K link 2023

Elon Musk, Climate Traitor: Tesla’s CEO has endorsed former President Trump for a second term. His priorities have never been clearer.

↑ 11.3K 💬 652 link 2024

Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late

↑ 11K 💬 1.9K link 2023

How do Fossil Fuel Executives Sleep at Night? (comic strip)

↑ 10.4K 💬 226 image 2023

‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost. “We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the…

↑ 10K 💬 741 link 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/climate, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/climate have?
r/climate has about 295.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 564 of its posts; the biggest reached 29.8K upvotes, which is 101 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/climate?
"Milton Is the Hurricane That Scientists Were Dreading" reached 29.8K upvotes and 4.5K comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/climate.
What subreddits are similar to r/climate?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers, r/Louisiana.
What kind of posts do best on r/climate?
Of the posts we hold, 98% are link posts and 1% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/climate?
Across 564 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 23:00 UTC (6.5K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 15:00 UTC (5.2K avg upvotes), Monday at 16:00 UTC (5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/climate?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/climate has 7.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 37 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/climate, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.