Explore Articles: Fact-Checking Climate Data

Browse verified fact-checks and debunks addressing misinformation and disinformation about climate change, curated by European fact-checking organizations.

Factcheck
 | Renewables
Denmark

Do renewables need a second grid?

Science Feedback
Prebunk
 | Other
France

Major wine regions could disappear from global warming, Europe to be hit especially hard

Science Feedback
Factcheck
 | Climate and Earth Science & Attribution

CO2 does not affect geomagnetic storms

Oštro
Factcheck
 | Conspiracy theories
United States

LED lighting is not intended as an instrument of social control

Faktograf
Factcheck
 | Water & Cryosphere

No, the fact that ice mass increased in Greenland on a single day does not negate the climate crisis

Ellinika Hoaxes
Factcheck
 | Renewables
Spain

Burning solar systems? Kremlin-affiliated media disseminate misleading videos about Spain's heat wave

Correctiv
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
Spain

The Aemet has not acknowledged that it did not predict “the flood” in the ravines on the day of the cold drop “after 10 months of denying it”

Newtral
Prebunk
 | Extreme weather events
Spain

The project to extract quartzite in Oencia (León) was approved before the fires that devastated the area

Newtral
Prebunk
 | Renewables
Denmark

Do wind turbines work when it’s cold?

Science Feedback
Prebunk
 | Extreme weather events
Spain

What do we know about the land burned in the fires in Tarifa (Cádiz) and the supposed creation of urban projects there

Newtral
Factcheck
 | Water & Cryosphere
Germany

Study on short-term rise of the Antarctic ice sheet misinterpreted online

AFP
Factcheck
 | Conspiracy theories
France

No, natural protected areas do not exclude human activities

AFP
Factcheck
 | Other
United States

Not a star in honor of Putin: Chilean jets are falsely passed off as US aircraft in Alaska

AFP
Prebunk
 | Extreme weather events
Spain

The forest firefighters of Cádiz raised their fists in a protest, but 'La International' did not sound

Newtral
Prebunk
 | Extreme weather events
Spain

Fire prevention: a snapshot of the autonomous regions' fight against fires

Verificat
Prebunk
 | Extreme weather events
Spain

The Xunta and the association of forest agents deny that this video shows a UDEX patrol causing a fire

Newtral
Factcheck
 | Energy Systems & Alternatives
Norway

This image of a “floating greenhouse” in Norway is AI-generated

AFP
Prebunk
 | Extreme weather events
Spain

Why fires are concentrated in the west of the peninsula: it's not a conspiracy, but vegetation and climate

Newtral
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
Spain

The 2030 Agenda does not prohibit cleaning the mountains nor does it establish fines for it

Newtral
Factcheck
 | Conspiracy theories
Spain

An article about urban plans in Tarifa, distorted to fuel the conspiracy of land requalification after fires

Verificat
Prebunk
 | Conspiracy theories
Spain

Menas, lasers and fire tornados: viral hoaxes about the fires that are ravaging Spain

Newtral

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