Latest Fact-Checks In Climate Change

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Byron Donalds
Byron Donalds
stated on July 7, 2024 an interview on Fox News Sunday
Kamala Harris "co-sponsored, fully sponsored" the Green New Deal.
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By Louis Jacobson • July 10, 2024
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 6, 2023 An interview on CNBC
“We produce a lot more wind energy in Texas than California does.”
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By Sarah Bahari • November 14, 2023
League of Conservation Voters
League of Conservation Voters
stated on August 13, 2022 Twitter
Says Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson “called climate change ‘bull----’ during a record heatwave” and “raked in over $700k in fossil fuel cash.”
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By Laura Schulte • August 19, 2022
Randy Feenstra
Randy Feenstra
stated on October 5, 2021 a tweet
The Biden administration "published a study concluding 4 (of) 5 new cars on the road by 2050 will still require liquid fuels."
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By Lyle Muller • October 28, 2021
Energy Transfer
Energy Transfer
stated on February 26, 2021 testimony
“Pipelines do not freeze. They are naturally insulated. They’re buried beneath the ground.”
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By Brandon Mulder • March 5, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 12, 2019 a campaign ad
California firefighters decided "to speak out" against President Trump because his tweet about the state’s wildfires "contained so much misinformation."
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By Chris Nichols • December 18, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 1, 2019 a stump speech
"I’m one of the first guys to introduce a climate change bill, way, way back in ’87."
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By John Kruzel • May 8, 2019
Derrick Crowe
Derrick Crowe
stated on June 3, 2017 as quoted in an Austin American-Statesman news story
Says each of the past three years "has been the hottest on record."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 15, 2017
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on June 1, 2017 a tweet
"Syria and Nicaragua are the only nations that didn't sign the Paris Agreement. Nicaragua said it wasn't tough enough."
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By Miriam Valverde • June 1, 2017
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on May 18, 2015 U.S. Senate
"This March, for the first time in human history, the monthly average carbon dioxide in our atmosphere exceeded 400 parts per million. The range had been 170-300 parts per million for hundreds of thousands of years."  
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By Mark Reynolds • June 21, 2015
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on May 1, 2015 a commentary in The Providence Journal
Annual precipitation "has increased in Rhode Island by over 12 inches in the last century."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 14, 2015
NextGen Climate Action Committee
NextGen Climate Action Committee
stated on April 8, 2015 a blog post
Wisconsin’s attorney general and state treasurer ordered the daughter of Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson not to discuss climate change on state time.
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By James B. Nelson • April 10, 2015
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on December 17, 2014 a Senate floor speech
"January through November 2014, the year so far, were the hottest first 11 months of any year recorded."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 12, 2015
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on August 7, 2014 a campaign commercial
Says Charlie Crist rode on a jet that "belongs to a serial polluter with a history of environmental violations fined nearly $2 million for polluting water."
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By Joshua Gillin • August 15, 2014
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on May 27, 2014 a newspaper commentary
"There are already more American jobs in the solar industry than in coal mining."
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By Karen Lee Ziner • July 6, 2014
Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith
stated on March 26, 2014 a committee hearing
The National Science Foundation awarded $700,000 to fund a climate change musical.
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By W. Gardner Selby • April 2, 2014
American Petroleum Institute
American Petroleum Institute
stated on March 2, 2014 a television ad
Says "Bill Clinton and George Bush both say build the Keystone XL."
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By Steve Contorno • March 5, 2014
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on January 16, 2014 a speech
As a result of climate change, ice fishermen in Wisconsin "are already noticing fewer days they can be out on our ice covered lakes."
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By James B. Nelson • February 17, 2014
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
stated on January 15, 2014 remarks at a news conference
"Only 3 percent of voters 18 to 34 don't believe that climate change is really happening."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2014
League of Conservation Voters
League of Conservation Voters
stated on August 14, 2013 a TV ad
Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson voted to let oil and gas companies emit "unlimited carbon pollution into our air"
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August 29, 2013
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