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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
“Beachgoers trash Florida beaches with 13,000 pounds of litter after beaches reopen.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True
FactCheck.orgClimate & environment
Judith Curry gets no media coverage and she says climate changes is a "hoax."
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactClimate & environment
"We knew 100 years ago what would happen by burning fossil fuels."
Publisher’s rating: Some was known, but not fully
PolitiFactClimate & environment
Says Ted Cruz tweeted, “I’ll believe in climate change when Texas freezes over.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Washington PostClimate & environment
“In the 40, 50 years of the Endangered Species Act, we’ve recovered very few species. … The act itself hasn’t really been successful in saving very many species.”
Publisher’s rating: Two Pinocchios
FactCheck.orgClimate & environment
"The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is actually close to an all-time low ever in human history."
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactClimate & environment
Video shows “California sets their own forest fires and claims them as climate change effects.”
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgClimate & environment
Greta Thunberg tweeted that climate change would wipe out humanity by June 2023.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactClimate & environment
The World Economic Forum "wants to slaughter millions of pet cats and dogs to fight climate change."
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactClimate & environment
Photo of electric charging station “powered by diesel generator” is emblematic of the electric vehicle movement.
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
PolitiFactClimate & environment
“13 nations agree to abolish farming in order to save the planet.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactClimate & environment
Says a photo shows a gas-powered van towing a diesel generator that is charging an electric car.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactClimate & environment
Greta Thunberg said the world would end on June 21, 2023.
Publisher’s rating: False
Maldita.esClimate & environment
La playa de Los Peligros en Santander amanece llena de basura tras un botellón durante la nueva normalidad
Publisher’s rating: Falso
PolitiFactClimate & environment
"China produces 90% of the world’s carbon emissions pollution."
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactClimate & environment
Climate change is “dictated by solar activity and the moon” and has “nothing to do with mankind.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactClimate & environment
The Biden administration “ignores the negative environmental impact created by lithium mining.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactClimate & environment
A wind turbine “could never generate as much energy as was invested in building it.”
Publisher’s rating: False