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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 | Renewables
Greece

The reference to a study on temperature rise from the use of wind turbines is misleading

FactReview
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 | Climate and Earth Science & Attribution

Report on cooling of the Atlantic around the equator does not refute climate change

AFP
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 | Extreme weather events

Change in the design of weather maps does not prove that the media are deceiving about climate change

AFP
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 | Renewables
United States

No, wind turbines are not likely to fall on your head, and there is no evidence that wind is more dangerous than other energy sources

Science Feedback
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 | Transport
Australia

Diesel generators do not charge most electric vehicles

Science Feedback
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 | Conspiracy theories
France

Climate change is due to human activities and not to the decrease in cloud cover

AFP
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 | Other
France

The temporary cooling of part of the Atlantic does not call into question the severity of global warming

Science Feedback
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SV

Helicopter spraying of mosquitoes in Salvador raises suspicions in the network

Faktoje
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United Kingdom

AstraZeneca published the risk of side effects in vaccines

Faktoje
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 | Other

CO2 emissions and propaganda

Funky Citizens
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 | Renewables
CL

No evidence for sudden bird deaths from lithium evaporation ponds, contrary to claims in viral meme

Science Feedback
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 | Other
Iceland

Watch out for rumours about a “toxic” sulfur dioxide cloud following the eruption in Iceland

AFP
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 | Extreme weather events
Bulgaria

1927 Newspaper Clipping Doesn't Prove Climate Change Is Exaggerated

AFP
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 | Extreme weather events

It is false that the AEMET has lowered the thresholds to declare more heat alerts

Verificat
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 | Other

Global warming is caused by human activity, not clouds

AFP
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 | Other

No increase in ice in Greenland preventing shipping

Factcheck.Vlaanderen
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 | Other
United States

Bjorn Lomborg’s claims about polar bears, coral, and cold deaths ignore scientists’ predictions of climate-change-affected futures

Science Feedback
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 | Other

Humanity emits significantly more CO2 per year than all volcanoes combined

AFP
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 | Other
France

Climate change and its impacts on the water cycle; how can it increase both droughts and heavy downpours?

Science Feedback
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United States

Generated photo of happy couple Trump and Kamala Harris

Faktoje
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 | Other

A US study on the cooling of the Atlantic Ocean at the equator does not dispute global warming

AFP

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