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
 | Extreme weather events
Spain

The AEMET does not exclude climate data prior to 2020 when it talks about temperature records

EFE Verifica
Factcheck
 | Climate and Earth Science & Attribution

Unverified claims about climate change and global temperature by the well-known geologist Ian Plimer

Ellinika Hoaxes
Prebunk
 | Extreme weather events
Portugal

Different languages, same disinformation: how narratives that deny the influence of climate change on high summer temperatures circulate in other countries

Maldita
Prebunk
 | Renewables
Ireland

How much electricity do data centers use, and can they run on renewables?

Science Feedback
Factcheck
 | Renewables

Context and evidence on the effect of solar panels and wind turbines on temperatures

Maldita
Factcheck
 | Renewables
Germany

Why solar and wind power plants are comparatively environmentally friendly energy sources

AFP
Prebunk
 | Other

Recommendations for not disturbing the seabed when diving

Maldita
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
Spain

The Aemet records date back to 2020: they date back to 1961

Newtral
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
Germany

Fake “Tagesthemen” weather map spread on social media

AFP
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
United States

Baseless link between cloud seeding and the floods in Texas

Ellinika Hoaxes
Factcheck
 | Water & Cryosphere

Study finds Southern Ocean’s surface is becoming saltier and losing sea ice, not experiencing an ‘ocean current reversal’

Science Feedback
Prebunk
 | Other
Spain

Who and when is land expropriated to install renewables? These are the procedures followed in these projects

Maldita
Prebunk
 | Renewables
European Union

How to safely welcome renewables onto the electricity grid?

Science Feedback
Factcheck
 | Conspiracy theories
Germany

Altered German weather map is used to undermine climate change

AFP
Factcheck
 | Fossil fuels & Mining
France

No, the quantity of CO2 produced by humans is not negligible

Les Surligneurs
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
France

The temperature maps are not “reddened” to be scary

Les Surligneurs
Factcheck
 | Transport
France

Air pollution is indeed linked to excess mortality, the figure of “48,000 avoidable deaths” is a high estimate

Science Feedback
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
United States

No, cloud seeding is not to blame for the storm that claimed hundreds of lives in Texas

Faktograf
Prebunk
 | Extreme weather events

Why the hottest days don't match those with the most hours of sunshine

Maldita
Factcheck
 | Waste & Pollution
Portugal

Did Lisbon end up this full of trash 'after the immigrants' religious festival'?

Polígrafo
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
Greece

Unsubstantiated claim about the heatwave that struck Greece and Europe in late June

Ellinika Hoaxes

Filters