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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 | Climate and Earth Science & Attribution

Climate change: Volcanoes emit much less CO2 per year than humans

Correctiv
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 | Extreme weather events
Germany

Low tide on the Rhine in 1921: Why this historic photo says nothing about climate change

Correctiv
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Climate scientists take urbanization into account when measuring global temperatures

Factcheck.Vlaanderen
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 | Waste

Olympic Games 2024: A wave of news about the cleanliness of the Seine

AFP
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 | Conspiracy theories
Czech Republic

Lab results do not prove deliberate spraying of 'toxic' Saharan sand

AFP
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 | Renewables
Greece

This 2021 photo shows solar panels in India, not the photovoltaic park in Kozani

AFP
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 | Extreme weather events

Headlines about different regions warming faster than average don't show climate change is a 'hoax'

AFP
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United States

Kamala Harris is not asking to reduce the population, it's a misreading during a speech

EFE Verifica
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 | Extreme weather events
Spain

A thermometer with 44 degrees in Madrid in 1989 does not prove that Spain always had the same heat

AFP
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Australia

From vibrant corals to white skeletons: climate change and looming existential threats to coral reefs

Science Feedback
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 | Extreme weather events
Greece

Past heat records do not undo climate change

AFP
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 | Renewables
Greece

This photo with photovoltaics is NOT from Greece

Ellinika Hoaxes
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 | Renewables
Germany

Wind turbines are climate-friendly and save more CO2 than their production causes

AFP
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France

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from all states is crucial to limiting global warming

Science Feedback
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 | Extreme weather events
Germany

Why a flood marker in Passau cannot call climate change into question

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Unlike millions of years ago, when it was even warmer, the current increase in CO2 is caused by humans

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More CO2 in the atmosphere causes higher temperatures

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 | Extreme weather events
Sweden

Manipulating the message of weather and climate? These maps are not proof

Demagog Poland
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 | Climate and Earth Science & Attribution

Climate change: Why several regions are warming faster than the rest of the world

Correctiv
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 | Other
Australia

The Great Barrier Reef is massively threatened, despite coral growth

AFP
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 | Conspiracy theories
Greece

Claims that Sahara dust comes from “kemtrails” are false

AFP

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