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.

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 | Extreme weather events

The Cheste dam could not have prevented DANA damage, as Alejandro Fernández says

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 | Other

No, it's not true that 90 million years ago it was warmer than today even without an increase in CO₂

Facta news
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 | Conspiracy theories
United States

These clouds were not artificially created

Facta news
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 | Transport
United States

The footage of a burning vehicle does not show an electric bus

Oštro
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 | Climate and Earth Science & Attribution

CO2 is one of the main drivers of global warming

AFP
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 | Other
United States

The sun has up to 100 times less impact on climate change than greenhouse gases.

Oštro
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 | Extreme weather events

Map does not show “eliminated dams” in Valencia and is not related to the DANA disaster

AFP
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United States

Recent global warming driven by human CO2 emissions, not ‘little ice age’ or urban heat island effects

Science Feedback
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 | Conspiracy theories

Gheorghe Piperea on measures to combat climate change

Funky Citizens
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France

The nitrogen dioxide emitted by gas stoves has many deleterious effects on health, as recently reported by the press

Science Feedback
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 | Extreme weather events
Spain

In Spain, small dams were removed, they don't hold back water during floods

Demagog Czechia
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 | Conspiracy theories
Spain

Watch out for these publications claiming that ships linked to HAARP caused the floods in Spain

AFP
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 | Extreme weather events

AEMET radars cannot move clouds and did not cause DANA in Valencia

AFP
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 | Extreme weather events

Video of the “bombing” of a storm is not linked to DANA in Spain: it's a montage

AFP
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 | Other
Czech Republic

Misinterpretation of the conclusions of the study. It does not deny the influence of CO₂ on global warming

Demagog Czechia
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Beware of the fraudulent SMS that supplants the Aemet warning of a storm

Verificat
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 | Extreme weather events
Spain

Floods in Spain may have been caused intentionally

Funky Citizens
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 | Conspiracy theories

2015 consultation by an MEP does not prove that “chemtrails” exist or are used in Spain

AFP
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 | Conspiracy theories
Spain

No, HAARP can’t create floods, climate change can make heavy rainfall more extreme

Science Feedback
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 | Extreme weather events

Often shared severe weather photo from Spain is real

Austria Presse Agentur
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 | Extreme weather events

Neither did Spain “demolish” more than 100 dams, nor does the 2030 Agenda demand it

AFP

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