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.

AI images of bears in Yellowstone National Park are circulating with false disaster warnings

Disinformation regarding the change in the direction of a current in the Southern Ocean

Attention to this weather map with an image of lava in the background: it has been manipulated

Spanish hunters are responsible for animal slaughter in Portugal, not the European Union

Context and evidence on the effect of solar panels and wind turbines on temperatures

Why solar and wind power plants are comparatively environmentally friendly energy sources

Video does not show flooding in Texas, it is generated by artificial intelligence

The Aemet records date back to 2020: they date back to 1961

Fake “Tagesthemen” weather map spread on social media

Baseless link between cloud seeding and the floods in Texas

Study finds Southern Ocean’s surface is becoming saltier and losing sea ice, not experiencing an ‘ocean current reversal’

What tricks climate change denier Steve Milloy uses to distress temperature data from the USA

Altered German weather map is used to undermine climate change

No, the quantity of CO2 produced by humans is not negligible

The temperature maps are not “reddened” to be scary

Air pollution is indeed linked to excess mortality, the figure of “48,000 avoidable deaths” is a high estimate

No, cloud seeding is not to blame for the storm that claimed hundreds of lives in Texas

Did Lisbon end up this full of trash 'after the immigrants' religious festival'?

Unsubstantiated claim about the heatwave that struck Greece and Europe in late June

This study on Earth's high temperatures several million years ago does not question global warming

Italy has not abandoned the Paris Agreement on climate change as of July 10, 2025