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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 | Conspiracy theories
Spain

HAARP and the conspiracy to control climate and weather

Maldita
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 | Extreme weather events
United States

The “mysterious cloud explosions seen in Los Angeles” are unrelated to the fires of January 2025: they are fireworks from September 2024

Maldita
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 | Conspiracy theories
United States

The California fires and the conspiracy theory that they were caused to create “smart cities”

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 | Conspiracy theories
Spain

No, it is not true that 4 AEMET workers have confessed in a report to the European Union that Spain is being sprayed with lead dioxide

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 | Extreme weather events
United States

“Fogvid-24": the videos about a “strange” fog in the United States and the United Kingdom that do not provide any evidence

Maldita
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 | Conspiracy theories
Spain

The BOE (Official State Gazette) which includes exemptions to CAP aid for the abandonment of crops and the starting of plantations: they have existed since 2004 and adds new cases

Maldita
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 | Transport
Spain

The video of the bus burning is old and it is not an electric vehicle, it uses methane and diesel

Newtral
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 | Conspiracy theories
Spain

The conspiracy theory that says DANA in Valencia is a “HAARP weather attack”

Maldita
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 | Renewables
Spain

Footage does not show the place where hundreds of thousands of olives were cut down for the installation of a solar

Faktograf
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 | Conspiracy theories
Italy

No, Zichichi didn't 'disappear from TV' for claiming that global warming is caused by the Sun

Facta news
Prebunk
 | Conspiracy theories
United States

The Trumpian right denies the climate crisis, but wants to ban 'chemtrails' | Facta

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 | Other
Spain

No, this video does not show the demolition of a nuclear power plant: it is the thermal power plant in La Robla (León) that was closed in 2020

Maldita
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 | Renewables
CN

No, the solar panels in this photo have not been placed where there used to be olive trees in Spain: it is from China

Maldita
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 | Other
Poland

How is it possible that, despite global warming, ice arrives in Antarctica? We explain

Demagog Poland
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 | Other
Denmark

No, Danish farmers are not required by law to plant flowers on 5% of their land

Maldita
Prebunk
 | Renewables
Spain

What caused Iberia’s blackout? Renewable energy’s opponents were quick to blame solar and wind, but multiple factors appear to be at play

Science Feedback
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 | Conspiracy theories

Aether Conspiracy Theory: Ancient Towers Didn't Spread Free Energy

Faktograf
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 | Renewables
Greece

The information attributing the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula to a rare atmospheric phenomenon is unfounded

Ellinika Hoaxes
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 | Extreme weather events

Denial of the risk of uncontrolled climate change and the role of CO₂ in global warming and extreme weather events

Ellinika Hoaxes
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 | Extreme weather events

Antarctica – What is true about the temporary sea ice increase

Ellinika Hoaxes
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 | Renewables
Spain

What do we know about the “100,000 olive trees” that are supposedly going to be felled in Jaén to install photovoltaic plants

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