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
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Study misinterpreted – cooler crater lakes in Cameroon don't prove doubts on climate change

Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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 | Energy Systems & Alternatives
Spain

Contents that associate the fires of 2025 in Spain with a hydrogen corridor: 80% of the proposed corridor has already been built

Maldita
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 | Water & Cryosphere
Spain

What do we know about the Cáceres reservoir, which has been emptied to eliminate an invasive fish species, and the effects on fauna

Maldita
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 | Fossil fuels & Mining
Spain

Beware of the map that unprovenly links the fires of August 2025 with alleged lithium and rare earth deposits

Maldita
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 | Extreme weather events

The fires in the wheat fields would have started out of the blue with the new government

Funky Citizens
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 | Fossil fuels & Mining
Spain

The approval of a mining project in Oencia (León, Spain) in an area affected by the fire: it was done before the fires, but was announced later

Maldita
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 | Water & Cryosphere
Germany

Study on short-term rise of the Antarctic ice sheet misinterpreted online

AFP
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 | Renewables
Germany

Cheap electricity – wind turbine costs offset after just a short time

Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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 | Renewables
Spain

The construction of a photovoltaic plant in Soto del Real was authorized in 2024, months before the Tres Cantos fire

EFE Verifica
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 | Conspiracy theories
France

No, natural protected areas do not exclude human activities

AFP
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 | Other
United States

Not a star in honor of Putin: Chilean jets are falsely passed off as US aircraft in Alaska

AFP
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 | Extreme weather events
Portugal

Is it true that “more than 90% of wildfires in Portugal are caused by human activity”?

Polígrafo
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 | Energy Systems & Alternatives
Norway

This image of a “floating greenhouse” in Norway is AI-generated

AFP
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 | Extreme weather events
Spain

What we know about urban projects in areas affected by fires in Tarifa (Spain)

Maldita
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 | Extreme weather events
Spain

The 2030 Agenda does not prohibit cleaning the mountains nor does it establish fines for it

Newtral
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 | Conspiracy theories
Spain

An article about urban plans in Tarifa, distorted to fuel the conspiracy of land requalification after fires

Verificat
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 | Extreme weather events
Spain

Is it forbidden to clean mountains in Spain? The national forestry law requires landlords to do so and each autonomous community regulates tasks, some through request

Maldita
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 | Extreme weather events
Spain

This photo does not show a laser beam causing a forest fire either in León or anywhere else in Spain

Newtral
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 | Conspiracy theories
Spain

The fires in León were not caused by the shooting of a laser beam with a military drone

EFE Verifica
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 | Renewables
Spain

The solar project near the fire in Tres Cantos (Madrid): the solar panels will be in another municipality and obtained a building permit in 2024

Maldita
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 | Conspiracy theories
United Kingdom

British researchers in a pilot project did not want, nor could, darken the Sun

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