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
 | Climate and Earth Science & Attribution
Australia

Great Barrier Reef is not thriving: coral reef experiences greatest bleaching since measurements began

AFP
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
Italy

Image of two weather maps of Italy with false values used to promote climate change denial

Ellinika Hoaxes
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
Austria

Article about the heat record from 2023 is falsely shared as current

AFP
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
Greece

No, the fact that Greece has experienced high temperatures in the past does not mean that the heatwaves we are facing today are "normal"

Ellinika Hoaxes
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 | Other
Australia

The Great Barrier Reef is not “thriving”, it is undergoing its largest bleaching ever observed

AFP
Factcheck
 | Climate and Earth Science & Attribution

Variations in the global mean temperature with a parallel increase in CO₂ concentration.What is the actual situation?

Ellinika Hoaxes
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 | Other
France

No, the ocean is not ‘cooling’, contrary to viral claims – it’s been warming at an accelerating rate

Science Feedback
Factcheck
 | Renewables
France

Wide Awake Media repeats misleading claims that wind turbines are expensive and environmentally unfriendly

Science Feedback
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events

Video of stranded whales has nothing to do with earthquakes in Russia in July 2025

AFP
Factcheck
 | Climate and Earth Science & Attribution
European Union

Misleading U.S. Department of Energy climate report chooses bias over science, climate scientists say

Science Feedback
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
Russia

Old video of tsunami in Greenland is shared as current footage from Russia

AFP
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 | 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
Factcheck
 | Climate and Earth Science & Attribution
France

Global warming is well linked to human activities

AFP
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
United States

AI images of bears in Yellowstone National Park are circulating with false disaster warnings

AFP
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
Factcheck
 | Water & Cryosphere

Disinformation regarding the change in the direction of a current in the Southern Ocean

Ellinika Hoaxes
Prebunk
 | Renewables
Ireland

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

Science Feedback
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
Germany

Attention to this weather map with an image of lava in the background: it has been manipulated

AFP
Factcheck
 | Renewables
Portugal

Spanish hunters are responsible for animal slaughter in Portugal, not the European Union

Demagog Czechia
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 | Renewables

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

Maldita

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