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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 | Renewables
Greece

This photo with photovoltaics is NOT from Greece

Ellinika Hoaxes
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 | Renewables
Germany

Wind turbines are climate-friendly and save more CO2 than their production causes

AFP
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Why a flood marker in Passau cannot call climate change into question

Correctiv
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 | Other

Unlike millions of years ago, when it was even warmer, the current increase in CO2 is caused by humans

Factcheck.Vlaanderen
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 | Other

More CO2 in the atmosphere causes higher temperatures

Factcheck.Vlaanderen
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Sweden

Manipulation of information about weather and climate? These maps are not evidence

Demagog Poland
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Climate change: Why several regions are warming faster than the rest of the world

Correctiv
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 | Other
Australia

The Great Barrier Reef is massively threatened, despite coral growth

AFP
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 | Conspiracy theories
Greece

Claims that Sahara dust comes from “kemtrails” are false

AFP
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 | Other

Attention to these publications, which compare CO2 emissions linked to volcanic eruptions and those related to agriculture

AFP
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Photo of baths in Malta does not refute sea level rise

Correctiv
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 | Extreme weather events
Greece

Serifos fire is misleadingly linked to cancelled wind farm project

AFP
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 | Waste
Spain

This video does not show a Spanish beach after a festival dedicated to environmental protection

AFP
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 | Extreme weather events
Bosnia and Herzegovina

The result of a 2022 laboratory analysis is not proof that 'Saharan sand' is an unnatural phenomenon

AFP
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 | Conspiracy theories
Italy

The CO₂ emitted by volcanic eruptions does not even account for 2% of annual human emissions

Verificat
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 | Extreme weather events
Greece

Video shows controlled fire to prevent forest fires, not arson

AFP
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 | Extreme weather events

An Artificial Sun Would Produce Apocalyptic Storms in Texas

Funky Citizens
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Denmark

Did UEFA penalise Denmark's national team for flying the plane? We explain

Demagog Poland
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Poland

Elites want to cause a

Demagog Poland
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 | Other

Terheș about the new Law for the Restoration of Nature

Funky Citizens
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 | Other
MV

Climate change is strongly felt in the Maldives

AFP

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