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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 | Extreme weather events
Spain

The price of water in Spain has not risen due to the destruction of river barriers

EFE Verifica
Prebunk
 | Conspiracy theories
Germany

Denial groups permeate farmers' protests

Newtral
Prebunk
 | Other
Iceland

Recent eruption of the Grindavik volcano in Iceland represents less than the equivalent of one hour of global human-generated CO2 emissions

Eurocomunicare
Factcheck
 | Other
United Kingdom

Study calls for people to grow their own food for many years to come, despite finding higher carbon footprint compared to conventional agriculture

Science Feedback
Factcheck
 | Renewables
Spain

Data on renewable energy in Catalonia: only 15% of the energy it produces is green

Verificat
Prebunk
 | Extreme weather events

No, the increase in natural disasters is not apparent

Facta news
Prebunk
 | Extreme weather events
Spain

Most tap water in Barcelona no longer comes from rivers (and that affects its taste, but not its safety)

Verificat
Factcheck
 | Transport
United Kingdom

EU is not passing law to ‘seize and scrap’ cars under climate agenda, contrary to Peter Sweden claim

Science Feedback
Prebunk
 | Transport
Spain

The European Union will not “prohibit” repairing a car after a breakdown

Newtral
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
Spain

Temperature records in July 1876 in Spain: why they are not reliable and why, if true, it would not debunk current climate change

Maldita
Factcheck
 | Other
Germany

No, this weather forecast in Germany shows no flames or background alarm sounds: it's a montage

Maldita
Prebunk
 | Extreme weather events
Italy

Why do fires (also) have to do with climate change

Facta news
Prebunk
 | Extreme weather events
Spain

The closure of El Retiro and other parks in Madrid due to weather alerts: questions and answers

Maldita
Factcheck
 | Conspiracy theories
Spain

The Spanish Met Office article on attempts to “artificial weather modification”: it does not say that they avoid rain, quite the contrary

Maldita
Prebunk
 | Other
Spain

Why can't we accurately predict what the weather will be like two weeks from now, but we can predict it in the long term

Maldita
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
Spain

Watch out for this video of a helicopter using fire to “cause” forest fires: it was published in 2018 and uses a technique to control fire

Maldita
Factcheck
 | Other

Franco Prodi is wrong, global warming is not part of 'natural cycles'

Facta news
Prebunk
 | Extreme weather events
Spain

How the climate crisis worsens wildfires: causes, future scenarios and prevention measures

Maldita
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
Sweden

No, they haven't colored a weather map of Sweden red with what was “a normal summer” in 1986*

Maldita
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
Spain

Beware of the content saying that the Forestry Act of 2015 allows burned areas to be reclassified automatically: 30 years must pass since the fire or justify in a law “compelling reasons of public interest” *

Maldita

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