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
Croatia

Footage shows leech formation, not storm 'launch' via HAARP

Faktograf
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 | Extreme weather events

Artificial rain in Romania

Funky Citizens
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 | Conspiracy theories
United States

Strange bumps in the sky are natural cloud features, not the results of weather manipulation

Science Feedback
Factcheck
 | Climate and Earth Science & Attribution
Greece

False claim that a study proved human emissions have zero contribution to climate change

FactReview
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 | Extreme weather events

About temperatures in the last 485 years

Funky Citizens
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 | Conspiracy theories

Climate change is caused by chemtrails

Funky Citizens
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 | Extreme weather events
United States

Hurricane predictions aren’t perfect, but that does not ‘invalidate climate change theory’, contrary to Daily Wire claims

Science Feedback
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 | Conspiracy theories

Users misrepresent Jane Goodall's sayings about family planning and climate change

AFP
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 | Extreme weather events
Czech Republic

What happened to the temporary bridge in the flood-hit Czech village?

Demagog Czechia
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 | Conspiracy theories

Firefighters deliberately set fire to forests

Funky Citizens
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 | Fossil fuels
United States

The claim of the former editor-in-chief of a Slovenian weekly newspaper Democracy that there is no link between CO2 and global warming is not true.

Oštro
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 | Renewables

No, new study does not show that living near windmills causes serious health problems

Factcheck.Vlaanderen
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 | Extreme weather events
Poland

Climate change likely factor in Central Europe floods, scientists say

AFP
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 | Renewables

Cristian Terheș claims that coal-fired power plants do not pollute

Funky Citizens
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 | Extreme weather events

Cyclone Boris was deliberately provoked to destroy the most important Romanian agricultural areas

Funky Citizens
Prebunk
 | Transport
France

In most cases, electrifying cars reduces their emissions

Science Feedback
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 | Renewables

Social media posts mislead about the impact of solar parks on climate

AFP
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 | Other
France

No, wheat, cocoa, coffee, beer and tomatoes are not going to disappear, but climate change is generally reducing agricultural yields

Science Feedback
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 | Other
United States

Prioritizing plant-based foods in our diet can benefit climate and health, but Forbes article missed some key details

Science Feedback
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 | Other

“fertilization effect” of CO2 against climate crisis void

Austria Presse Agentur
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 | Other

This video on the “global warming scam” accumulates shortcuts and misleading statements

AFP

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