Latest Fact-Checks In Climate Change

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Mo Brooks
Mo Brooks
stated on May 16, 2018 a congressional hearing
"You’re going to have an increase in the amount of ice in Antarctica because of global warming."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 21, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 26, 2018 an interview with Piers Morgan
"The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now they’re setting records, so okay, they’re at a record level."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • January 29, 2018
AmericanNews.com
AmericanNews.com
stated on November 8, 2017 a headline
"BUSTED: NASA Accidentally destroys every climate change advocate by exposing massive truth behind Antarctica."
False
By Amy Sherman • November 20, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on September 2, 2017 an article on an unreliable website
"30,000 scientists have come forward confirming that man-made climate change is a hoax perpetuated by the elite in order to make money."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • September 8, 2017
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 19, 2017 an interview
"Most likely the primary control knob (for the earth’s temperature) is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in."
False
By John Kruzel • June 22, 2017
Gus Bilirakis
Gus Bilirakis
stated on June 13, 2017 an email
"A study by the National Economics Research Association showed that the (Paris climate) deal could cost 2.7 million lost jobs in the U.S. by 2025 should our country adhere to the commitments made by the Obama Administration."
False
By Manuela Tobias • June 21, 2017
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."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 15, 2017
Greg Gutfeld
Greg Gutfeld
stated on June 2, 2017 Fox News The Five show
"Every single year that there's an increase (in temperature) it's within the margin of error -- meaning it isn't increasing."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • June 9, 2017
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on June 6, 2017 a Facebook post
Says an Internet meme shows people rejoicing over the Paris agreement.  
False
By Amy Sherman • June 7, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 1, 2017 a speech at the White House
"China will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal plants. So we can’t build the plants, but they can, according to this (Paris) agreement."
False
By Jon Greenberg • June 5, 2017
Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on June 4, 2017 an interview on Fox News Sunday
"70 percent of Florida is in drought today."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 5, 2017
Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on June 4, 2017 an interview on ABC "This Week"
"A majority of President Trump's supporters and voters wanted (the United States) to stay in" the Paris Agreement.
Mostly False
By John Kruzel • June 5, 2017
Kevin de León
Kevin de León
stated on May 31, 2017 a speech
Clean energy employs "more than half a million Californians. That’s nearly ten times more the number of coal mining jobs that exist in the entire nation."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • June 2, 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."
True
By Miriam Valverde • June 1, 2017
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on March 31, 2017 a conversation on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"
"The EPA director under Obama said the Clean Power Initiative would have no effect on man-made CO2 emissions. That's what she said. Go look it up."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2017
Scott Wagner
Scott Wagner
stated on March 28, 2017 in a State Impact article.
"...the earth moves closer to the sun every year – you know the rotation of the earth. We’re moving closer to the sun."
False
By Anna Orso • March 31, 2017
Scott Pruitt
Scott Pruitt
stated on March 9, 2017 an interview on CNBC
Carbon dioxide is not "a primary contributor to the global warming that we see."
False
By Lauren Carroll • March 10, 2017
LearnProgress.org
LearnProgress.org
stated on February 8, 2017 a headline
Says Donald Trump was "caught investing in (the) Dakota Pipeline before signing it."
False
By Joshua Gillin • February 16, 2017
World Food Program
World Food Program
stated on February 5, 2017 a tweet
"Food waste is the 3rd largest contributor" of greenhouse gas emissions.  
False
By Jon Greenberg • February 14, 2017
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on January 24, 2017 his State of the State address
"One hundred and ninety-four countries signed the Paris Agreement to control greenhouse gases. Our own voluntary agreement to accomplish the same goal — the Under2  MOU — has 165 signatories, representing a billion people."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • January 26, 2017
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