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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 | Energy Systems & Alternatives

Nuclear testing is not to blame for global warming, it is the result of human activity

AFP
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 | Other

How big are CO2 emissions due to the war in Ukraine?

Austria Presse Agentur
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 | Other

Ice shelves around Antarctica fluctuate, total ice sheet declines

Factcheck.Vlaanderen
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 | Conspiracy theories

Video of a pilot fired in Germany for refusing to launch “chemtrails” is from a satirical site

AFP
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 | Renewables

Windmill peak rarely breaks down, more research needed into environmental consequences

Factcheck.Vlaanderen
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 | Extreme weather events

No, UN climate scientists see no decline in forest fires and floods

Factcheck.Vlaanderen
Prebunk
 | Conspiracy theories
United States

Humans do not have the technology to manipulate hurricanes

Science Feedback
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 | Other
United States

The World Economic Forum does not demand a ban on the production of domestic food

Faktograf
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 | Extreme weather events

Floods in Galati may have been caused by the directed rupture of some dams

Funky Citizens
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 | Transport
Belgium

It is not true that cars with an internal combustion engine are more environmentally friendly than electric ones

Oštro
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 | Extreme weather events

Image of Trump in hurricane floods is AI-generated

Austria Presse Agentur
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 | Conspiracy theories

Aurora Borealis could have been caused by HAARP

Funky Citizens
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 | Other
United States

Manipulations about the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere are still ongoing

Faktograf
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 | Extreme weather events
United States

Disaster funding in the United States was not reallocated to immigration programs

EFE Verifica
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 | Extreme weather events
United States

FEMA did not prevent the outflow of aid to the victims of Hurricane Helene

EFE Verifica
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 | Extreme weather events

Cyclone Boris could have been caused by HAARP

Funky Citizens
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 | Extreme weather events
United States

These images are not of the arrival of Hurricane Milton in Florida

EFE Verifica
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 | Conspiracy theories
United States

Hurricane Milton’s path is not evidence of weather manipulation; humans cannot create or manipulate hurricanes

Science Feedback
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 | Conspiracy theories
United States

Hurricane Milton was not created with the Haarp project

EFE Verifica
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 | Extreme weather events
ZA

Video of lion walking in snow in South Africa does not refute climate change

AFP
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 | Other
France

In a viral video, the YouTuber “The Raptor” makes a series of mistakes to deny the influence of human activities on the climate

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