Fact Check Posts – Page 10

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stated on July 31, 2019 a Facebook post

Says that ice melting in a cup illustrates that sea levels don’t rise when icebergs melt.

August 12, 2019

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stated on July 29, 2019 a post on Facebook

"Fringe leftists are now advocating for cow fart bags to capture farts as a way to help prevent ‘global warming.’"

By Samantha Putterman • August 6, 2019

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."

By Sophie Austin • June 6, 2019

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stated on May 20, 2019 a Facebook post

"How to Survive The Coming Ice Age" was a Time magazine cover story in 1977.

May 23, 2019

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."

By Miriam Valverde • May 14, 2019

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."

By John Kruzel • May 8, 2019

Beto O'Rourke
stated on April 29, 2019 climate change plan

"60 million Americans live in a place where the water they drink is unsafe."

By Miriam Valverde • May 7, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on March 2, 2019 a speech

"When the wind stops blowing, that’s the end of your electric."

By John Kruzel • April 3, 2019

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stated on March 30, 2019 a Facebook post

Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, "We need to repeal Daylight Savings Time as a primary measure to decrease the rate of climate change. Less hours of sun shine equal less heat hitting Earth’s surface."

April 2, 2019

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."

By John Kruzel • March 21, 2019

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."

By John Kruzel • March 13, 2019

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."

March 8, 2019

Rick Scott
stated on February 25, 2019 an Orlando Sentinel op-ed

The Democrats’ Green New Deal includes "working towards ending air travel."

By Amy Sherman • February 28, 2019

Morgan Griffith
stated on February 11, 2019 a newsletter.

"Our country has succeeded in reducing greenhouse emissions in previous years."

By Warren Fiske • February 26, 2019

Rush Limbaugh
stated on February 17, 2019 in an interview

"Climate change is nothing but a bunch of computer models that attempt to tell us what's going to happen in 50 years or 30. Notice the predictions are never for next year or the next 10 years. They're always for way, way, way, way out there, when none of us are going to be around or alive to know whether or not they were true."

By John Kruzel • February 19, 2019

Danielle Pletka
stated on November 25, 2018 in a panel discussion

"We need to also recognize that we just had two of the coldest years, biggest drop in global temperatures that we have had since the 1980s, the biggest in the last 100 years. We don't talk about that."

By John Kruzel • November 28, 2018

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."

By Stephen Koff • November 3, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on September 11, 2018 press conference

"Puerto Rico’s electric grid and their electric generating plant was dead before the storms ever hit. It was in very bad shape. It was in bankruptcy. It had no money. It was largely -- you know, it was largely closed."

By Manuela Tobias • September 13, 2018

Kevin McCarthy
stated on August 15, 2018 a speech

Studies are showing California’s wildfires "are producing more emissions than all of our cars are doing."

By Chris Nichols • August 29, 2018

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.

By W. Gardner Selby • June 20, 2018

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