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Latest Fact-Checks In Climate Change

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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."  
True
By Mark Reynolds • June 21, 2015
Don Zimmerman
Don Zimmerman
stated on April 27, 2015 an Austin City Council briefing
"You don't have to be as smart as a fifth-grader to know what causes the climate is the sun. The sun.  I have people tell me, ‘Carbon dioxide warms the Earth.’  No, it doesn't.  The sun warms the Earth."
Mostly False
By Asher Price • June 5, 2015
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on May 10, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
More money is dedicated within the Department of Homeland Security to climate change than what's spent combating "Islamist terrorists radicalizing over the Internet in the United States of America."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • May 14, 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."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 14, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on April 19, 2015 an interview on CBS' Face the Nation
"I can tell you with certainty (cap and trade) would have a devastating impact on our economy."
False
By Lauren Carroll • April 23, 2015
Mike Huebsch
Mike Huebsch
stated on April 7, 2015 testimony before a state Senate committee
"The elimination of essentially every automobile would be offset by one volcano exploding."
False
By James B. Nelson • April 17, 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.
True
By James B. Nelson • April 10, 2015
Don Beyer
Don Beyer
stated on March 4, 2015 an op-ed.
"More than 7,000 Americans lost their lives to climate change-fueled events last year."
False
By Warren Fiske • March 23, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 17, 2015 an interview on "Late Night with Seth Meyers"
"Many of the alarmists on global warming, they’ve got a problem because the science doesn’t back them up. In particular, satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there’s been zero warming."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • March 20, 2015
Dana Perino
Dana Perino
stated on February 9, 2015 a broadcast of "The Five" on Fox News
On climate change, "the temperature readings have been fabricated, and it's all blowing up in their (scientists') faces."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • February 13, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 13, 2015 a meme on social media
Says. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, once said, "Wind is a finite resource and harnessing it would slow the winds down, which would cause the temperature to go up."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 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."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 12, 2015
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on November 12, 2014 a media availability
The climate-change agreement between the United States and China "requires the Chinese to do nothing at all for 16 years."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 19, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on October 21, 2014 a CNN debate
"We have spent $350 million to deal with sea-level rise" in the Miami area and "hundreds of millions of dollars to deal with coral reefs."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 29, 2014
Alison Lundergan Grimes
Alison Lundergan Grimes
stated on October 6, 2014 a campaign ad
"The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell."
False
By Steve Contorno • October 8, 2014
American Crossroads
American Crossroads
stated on September 16, 2014 a campaign ad
Says Tom Steyer is a "California billionaire who stands to profit by blocking Keystone" and "is spending big to help" Bruce Braley.  
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • September 19, 2014
NextGen Climate Action Committee
NextGen Climate Action Committee
stated on August 8, 2014 TV ad
Says Rick Scott took $200,000 in campaign contributions from a company that "profited off pollution."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 15, 2014
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."
True
By Joshua Gillin • August 15, 2014
Shelley Moore Capito
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on July 29, 2014 a campaign ad
"What (the Obama administration is) going to come out with in the next several months is you're not even going to be able to burn coal very limitedly in the existing plants."
False
By Steve Contorno • August 7, 2014
Lenar Whitney
Lenar Whitney
stated on June 25, 2014 a YouTube video
"Global warming is a hoax."
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • August 1, 2014
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