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
Spain

How important are renewables in Catalonia? 19% of the energy generated is renewable

Verificat
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 | Other
Poland

Is global warming a “one-second” observation? Explaining Climate Change in Earth's History

Demagog Poland
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 | Conspiracy theories
Greece

The earthquake in Myanmar was not caused by HAARP

Ellinika Hoaxes
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 | Conspiracy theories
Greece

Misinformation that GWEN and HAARP in combination create energy explosions in the atmosphere

Ellinika Hoaxes
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 | Renewables

Can solar panels warm their surroundings? Yes, but so can other materials

Science Feedback
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 | Other

84% of the world’s reefs recently experienced bleaching-level heat stress, but not all were ‘completely bleached'

Science Feedback
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 | Other

No imminent end of life on Earth predicted by scientists at the University of Bristol

Ellinika Hoaxes
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 | Other

Permafrost, viruses, zombies and pandemics: What science really says

Ellinika Hoaxes
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 | Other
Poland

Is global warming not threatening us? We explain

Demagog Poland
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 | Waste

We checked how accurate the claims of the candidates for mayor of Zagreb are about the incineration of waste

Faktograf
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 | Conspiracy theories
MA

Why the fact that there is electricity in Morocco has nothing to do with what is happening in Spain

Maldita
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 | Other
Spain

This video does not show the destruction of a nuclear power plant but of coal

Newtral
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 | Extreme weather events
Portugal

It is false that the Portuguese Energy Network attributed the general shutdown to an induced atmospheric vibration

Verificat
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 | Fossil fuels
Portugal

Blackout in the Iberian Peninsula. 'Portugal imports 30% of the electricity it needs,' people criticize on social media. Is it true?

Polígrafo
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 | Renewables
United States

Solar thermal power plant in the Mojave Desert goes out of business, but that doesn't mean renewables are a “hoax”

Faktograf
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 | Fossil fuels
Germany

Climate, war and crude figures – Study on CO2 emissions in the Ukraine war fictitious

Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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 | Other

CO2 can promote plant growth, but too much of it pollutes the climate

Correctiv
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 | Renewables

Comparing wind power to total energy demand is misleading

Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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 | Other
United States

Tree discovery is no proof – researcher: Man-made climate change melted the ice

Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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 | Other
Brazil

Sea levels are also rising near Rio de Janeiro

Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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 | Renewables
Germany

Lack of context – First German offshore wind farm served its purpose

Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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