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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Slovakia

Lab results do not prove that “toxic” Saharan sand is deliberately sprayed

AFP
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Current warming is happening faster than 100 million years ago and is caused by humans

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Spain

Video of La Malagueta in Spain full of garbage is falsely linked to an environmental festival

AFP
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Poland

Is 5G a threat to the environment and people? See what the science says

Demagog Poland
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 | Extreme weather events
Germany

Low water on the Rhine from 1921 does not disprove climate change

AFP
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Sea levels are rising even off Dubai — video on the web is misleading

Correctiv
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 | Extreme weather events
Greece

Video of prescribed burning in the United States is deceptively presented online

AFP
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 | Conspiracy theories
Germany

Extreme weather events in Europe do not depend on cloud seeding in California

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Spain

This video doesn't show a Spanish beach after an environmental festival

AFP
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The waters of the Abrud and Arieș rivers would not mix

Funky Citizens
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Greece

The high temperatures of 1965 do not undo climate change

AFP
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 | Conspiracy theories
Germany

This dusty car doesn't have chemtrails

AFP
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Spain

Klaus Schwab hasn't asked to ban people from washing their pants more than once a month

EFE Verifica
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Spain

No, this video does not capture the beach becoming cluttered after the 'eco festival'

AFP
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Poland

The rulers of the world are deliberately changing the climate? It's not true

Demagog Poland
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France

The “wind turbine syndrome” explained by the “nocebo” effect; the impact of infrasound on health is not proven

Science Feedback
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Spain

A Harvard study does not indicate that solar panels generate more waste than nuclear power plants

EFE Verifica
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Increasing Antarctic shelf ice does not disprove global warming

AFP
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 | Extreme weather events
Spain

The AEMET has not said that the average temperature of the springs of 2016 and 2024 were the same

EFE Verifica
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Spain

Neither “manipulation” nor “concealment”: the change in the Aemet methodology for measuring the average temperature explains the variations in the verdicts

Verificat
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United Kingdom

This claim about Taylor Swift's private jet is false

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