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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
“COP26 luxury EVs to be recharged using diesel generators”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
Washington PostClimate & environment
“The scientists told us three years ago that we had 12 years to avert the worst consequences of the climate crisis. We are now three years gone, so we have nine years left.”
Publisher’s rating: Two Pinocchios
Michael BennetClimate & environment
"The vast majority of Americans believe that climate change is real and we need to do something about it."
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True
PolitiFactClimate & environment
1,609 scientists signed a declaration saying “There is no climate emergency.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
Le MondeClimate & environment
Le nombre d'ours polaires est-il en augmentation ?
Publisher’s rating: FAUX
PolitiFactClimate & environment
“84% of all new electric capacity planned to come onto the electric grid this year is clean energy.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True
PolitiFactClimate & environment
“Nearly a quarter million birds in New York City, and more than one billion across the country, die each year from collisions with buildings.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True
FactCheck.orgClimate & environment
"Global warming. ... The oceans are going to rise. One-eighth of an inch within the next 250 years, we're going to be wiped out!"
Publisher’s rating: 1/8 Inch PER YEAR
PolitiFactClimate & environment
1936 in the United States was “much hotter than 2023.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactClimate & environment
“New Jersey and Maryland produce more solar power than Florida, the Sunshine State!”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
Le MondeClimate & environment
Le niveau de la mer augmente-t-il de façon "naturelle" ?
Publisher’s rating: FAUX
PolitiFactClimate & environment
“NASA admits that man-made climate change is a hoax!”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactClimate & environment
Recent wildfires put more carbon in the atmosphere than "the human race has put out in the last 100 years."
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactClimate & environment
Climate change is caused by corporations using "weather modification patents.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactClimate & environment
Says that ice melting in a cup illustrates that sea levels don’t rise when icebergs melt.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactClimate & environment
Says under U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal proposal, “Cows are out.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactClimate & environment
In cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the United States is “the leader in the world by far.”
Publisher’s rating: Half True
PolitiFactClimate & environment
“A farm with 2,500 dairy cattle is similar in waste load to a city of 411,000 people.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactClimate & environment
“Greenland's ice sheet isn't shrinking any more rapidly today than it was 80 years ago.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False