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Climate & environment fact checks
Explore claims publishers have checked about climate & environment. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.
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PolitiFactClimate & environment
Images show how climate change destroyed the Greenland ice sheet and harmed a polar bear from 2009 to 2019.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactClimate & environment
"They say the ocean will rise one-eighth of an inch over the next 200 to 300 years."
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactClimate & environment
Says “Jeff Bezos will put 300 (metric tons) of carbon into the atmosphere for 180 seconds in space.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactClimate & environment
Recent haze in New York City was caused by “Bill Gates’ sun-dimming technology.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Washington PostClimate & environment
“The climate change agenda is a hoax … The reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change.”
Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios
PolitiFactClimate & environment
“I’ve already” declared a national climate emergency
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactClimate & environment
"The US has made strides in reducing carbon emissions that other parts of the world have not."
Publisher’s rating: True
PolitiFactClimate & environment
Photos show Manila Bay before and during Rodrigo Duterte’s administration.
Publisher’s rating: Half True
FactCheck.orgClimate & environment
Suggested that U.S. climate efforts were pointless because “China’s bad air” would simply move over into American “air space.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactClimate & environment
In Ohio, “there are 75,000 acres of farmland, fertile farmland, that are all now being poured down with acid rain.”
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgClimate & environment
Vice President Kamala Harris said her goal is "to reduce population to fight climate change."
Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts
PolitiFactClimate & environment
Photos of the Statue of Liberty taken in 1920 and 2020 show that the sea level hasn’t changed.
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgClimate & environment
"Plankton in the Atlantic Ocean is 90% gone."
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactClimate & environment
“NOAA makes it official… CO2 warming is a hoax.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactClimate & environment
"We cut New York City’s carbon footprint twice as much as the rest of the country."
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True