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
Denmark

Do renewables need a second grid?

Science Feedback
Factcheck
 | Climate and Earth Science & Attribution

CO2 does not affect geomagnetic storms

Oštro
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 | Conspiracy theories
United States

LED lighting is not intended as an instrument of social control

Faktograf
Factcheck
 | Water & Cryosphere

No, the fact that ice mass increased in Greenland on a single day does not negate the climate crisis

Ellinika Hoaxes
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 | Renewables
Spain

Burning solar systems? Kremlin-affiliated media disseminate misleading videos about Spain's heat wave

Correctiv
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 | Extreme weather events
Spain

The Aemet has not acknowledged that it did not predict “the flood” in the ravines on the day of the cold drop “after 10 months of denying it”

Newtral
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 | Water & Cryosphere
Germany

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

AFP
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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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 | Energy Systems & Alternatives
Norway

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

AFP
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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

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
United Kingdom

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

Faktograf
Factcheck
 | Renewables
Greece

Fact-check: There is no strategic plan to install 25,000 wind turbines in Greece by July 2025

Ellinika Hoaxes
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 | Extreme weather events
Spain

This photo of three firefighters with soot is not from the fires in Spain, but from those in Australia in 2019

Newtral
Factcheck
 | Extreme weather events
Spain

This video of a “fire tornado” is from the fires in Portugal, not in Galicia

Newtral
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 | Conspiracy theories
CA

Canadian provinces have introduced drastic measures due to catastrophic wildfires

Faktograf
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 | Conspiracy theories
Greece

No, HAARP did not cause the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Russia

Ellinika Hoaxes
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 | Extreme weather events
Spain

The AEMET has not eliminated data prior to 1950 in Ourense and Seville, nor does its historical data deny climate change

Newtral
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 | Transport
Netherlands

Footage shows blackout of tables due to environmental norms in the Netherlands, not England

Faktograf

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