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Climate & environment fact checks
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Liberal MP Craig Kelly claims that only a third of CO2 emissions come from electricity generation.
Publisher’s rating: True - The checkable claim is true.
A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate such energy as was invested in building it.
Publisher’s rating: Incorrect
Une étude de la NASA dit-elle que le réchauffement climatique est une fraude ?
Publisher’s rating: FAUX
Water Minister Melinda Pavey claims taking shorter showers will significantly help save dwindling water supplies in drought-affected NSW.
Publisher’s rating: True - the checkable claim is true.
I named climate change as a major national security crisis in 2016 and "the moderator actually laughed."
Publisher’s rating: This is misleading.
A claim that Rwanda has e-bikes that are charged by solar panels in the street and a claim that Rwanda get their electricity from 70% renewable energy.
Publisher’s rating: Ben Murray-Bruce’s Claims On Rwanda’s Energy Sector Are FALSE
Gli ultimi modelli di diesel sono, se non meno inquinanti, quantomeno parimenti inquinanti rispetto ad alcuni veicoli elettrici
Publisher’s rating: Pinocchio andante
![Image accompanying 18 miliardi di incentivi per le fonti di energia fossile [...] ancora vengono spesi in questo Paese](https://cdn.pagellapolitica.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/5jss2zjyoxtgvjbeuwwv.jpg)
18 miliardi di incentivi per le fonti di energia fossile [...] ancora vengono spesi in questo Paese
Publisher’s rating: C'eri quasi
"I said back in 1987" that climate change is an existential threat.
Publisher’s rating: True.
New look of Nairobi river riparian land, Korogocho
Publisher’s rating: False.
Bumblebee has been added to a list of endangered species
Publisher’s rating: Correct
National Party deputy leader Senator Bridget McKenzie claims Australians had taken to renewables “with open arms” and her government should be congratulated for its costed climate change policy.
Publisher’s rating: False - The checkable claim is false.
Heat soars in Rajasthan to 52 degrees and motorists are being sprayed with water on the roads to beat the heat.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
Several official pages of Congress party shared a set of two photos of the Ganges river on Twitter and Facebook with claims that the Bharatiya Janata Party failed to deliver its promise to clean the river. But we found that the pictures are real but have been shared out of context.
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young claims 90 per cent of agriculture in the Murray-Darling Basin will be lost if Australia fails to reduce carbon pollution.
Publisher’s rating: Somewhat True - Mostly accurate, but there is more than one error or problem.
Onshore gas drilling in the Northern Territory
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True - Mostly accurate, but there is a minor error or problem.
Former Greens leader Bob Brown claims the greenhouse gases from his Hobart- Queensland Adani protest convoy will amount to less than 30 seconds of emissions from the future mine.
Publisher’s rating: False - The checkable claims are all false.
The Coalition, through its "hard work", turned around an emissions deficit inherited from Labor.
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
Ilocos Norte hosts the largest solar farm in Southeast Asia
Publisher’s rating: False: Southeast Asia's largest solar farm is in Cadiz City in the Philippines