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Latest Fact-Checks In Climate Change

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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on November 14, 2023 remarks at the White House:
“Last year alone, natural disasters in America caused $178 billion in damages.”
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By Louis Jacobson • November 15, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 27, 2023 a speech on extreme heat:
“The No. 1 weather-related killer is heat. 600 people die annually from its effects, more than from floods, hurricanes and tornadoes in America combined.”
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By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2023
Rebuild by Design
Rebuild by Design
stated on March 1, 2023 a report:
“Every single county in New York has experienced a federal climate disaster between 2011-2021.”
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By Cameron Carr • March 29, 2023
Alex Epstein
Alex Epstein
stated on January 31, 2023 a Fox Business segment:
“The whole green energy agenda involves more than doubling 10 types of mining.”
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By Andy Nguyen • February 27, 2023
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on November 6, 2021 Panel discussion:
“Within two years, there were two 500-year (storm) events” in Wisconsin.
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By Laura Schulte • November 30, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 22, 2021 a Facebook post:
Says Al Gore said in 2009 that “the North Pole will be ice-free in the summer by 2013 because of man-made global warming.”
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By Samantha Putterman • March 2, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 27, 2021 remarks when signing climate change executive orders:
“84% of all new electric capacity planned to come onto the electric grid this year is clean energy.”
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By Jon Greenberg • January 29, 2021
Joe Cunningham
Joe Cunningham
stated on October 16, 2020 a website post:
"Nancy Mace denies climate change."
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By Tom Kertscher • October 19, 2020
Jan Schakowsky
Jan Schakowsky
stated on February 12, 2020 committee hearing remarks:
“We’ve also seen in the time that he’s (Donald Trump) been president, an increase in carbon emissions going absolutely in the wrong way.”
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • February 16, 2020
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on December 10, 2019 a tweet:
“Over the past two years, climate and weather disaster damage has cost the U.S. over $400 billion.”
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By Nusaiba Mizan • February 5, 2020
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on December 15, 2019 a speech:
"We cut New York City’s carbon footprint twice as much as the rest of the country." 
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 11, 2020
Sean Casten
Sean Casten
stated on August 18, 2019 a campaign email:
"Most climate scientists agree that we only have less than a decade to turn things around or else we’ll be stuck with a 'worst case scenario' including rising sea levels, devastating droughts, and worsening famines."
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • September 1, 2019
Michael Bennet
Michael Bennet
stated on May 30, 2019 a CNN town hall:
"The vast majority of Americans believe that climate change is real and we need to do something about it."
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By Sophie Austin • June 6, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on April 29, 2019 climate change plan:
"Race is the No. 1 indicator for where toxic and polluting facilities are today."
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By Miriam Valverde • May 14, 2019
Jay Inslee
Jay Inslee
stated on March 19, 2019 in an interview:
"We have flown a Boeing 737 across the Atlantic Ocean on biofuels. We have flown F-18s."
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By John Kruzel • March 21, 2019
Jay Inslee
Jay Inslee
stated on March 10, 2019 in an interview:
"We have developed a wind industry (in Washington state) from zero to $6 billion in 12 years."
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By John Kruzel • March 13, 2019
Jay Inslee
Jay Inslee
stated on February 20, 2019 an interview:
"The forest fires were so grotesque last year that we had the worst air in the world in Washington."  
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By Tom Kertscher • March 8, 2019
Environmental Defense Fund Action
Environmental Defense Fund Action
stated on October 29, 2018 a mailer to Texas homes:
Says Texas U.S. Rep. John Culberson "was caught using campaign cash on collectibles, including Civil War memorabilia and fossils."
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By Stephen Koff • November 3, 2018
Jim Spencer
Jim Spencer
stated on June 18, 2018 a news blog post:
Says May 2018 marked the 401st straight month of global temperatures exceeding the 20th century average.
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 20, 2018
Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on June 4, 2017 an interview on Fox News Sunday:
"70 percent of Florida is in drought today."
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By Amy Sherman • June 5, 2017
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