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
Spain

This photo does not show a laser beam causing a forest fire either in León or anywhere else in Spain

Newtral
Factcheck
 | Conspiracy theories
United Kingdom

British researchers in a pilot project did not want, nor could, darken the Sun

Faktograf
Factcheck
 | Renewables
Greece

Fact-check: There is no strategic plan to install 25,000 wind turbines in Greece by July 2025

Ellinika Hoaxes
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
Spain

This photo of three firefighters with soot is not from the fires in Spain, but from those in Australia in 2019

Newtral
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
Spain

This video of a “fire tornado” is from the fires in Portugal, not in Galicia

Newtral
Factcheck
 | Conspiracy theories
CA

Canadian provinces have introduced drastic measures due to catastrophic wildfires

Faktograf
Factcheck
 | Conspiracy theories
Greece

No, HAARP did not cause the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Russia

Ellinika Hoaxes
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
Spain

The AEMET has not eliminated data prior to 1950 in Ourense and Seville, nor does its historical data deny climate change

Newtral
Prebunk
 | Transport
Spain

From requalification to electric cars: disinformation about the fires that are ravaging Spain

Newtral
Factcheck
 | Transport
Netherlands

Footage shows blackout of tables due to environmental norms in the Netherlands, not England

Faktograf
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
United States

High temperatures measured in Death Valley in 1913 are not proof that climate change is not real – Faktograf.hr

Faktograf
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
Spain

This image doesn't show the fire in Las Medulas (León), it's made with AI

Newtral
Prebunk
 | Transport
Spain

What do we know about the causes of the fire in the car park of the Xanadú shopping center (Madrid)

Newtral
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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 | Extreme weather events
United States

AI images spread of Yellowstone park bears, along with false predictions of natural disasters

AFP
Factcheck
 | Climate and Earth Science & Attribution
Italy

Glacier mummy Ötzi does not refute man-made climate change

Correctiv
Factcheck
 | Other
Spain

EVOO with “EU and non-EU” origin and its alleged origin from Morocco: there is no evidence and the company that groups the three major brands mentioned denies it

Maldita
Factcheck
 | Climate and Earth Science & Attribution

Misleadingly edited video: Harald Lesch doesn't object to climate change

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