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Latest Fact-Checks In Climate Change

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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 23, 2012 a debate in Tampa, Fla.:
"When I was fighting against cap and trade, the speaker was sitting down with Nancy Pelosi on a sofa encouraging it."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • January 24, 2012
Rob Cornilles
Rob Cornilles
stated on January 10, 2012 a debate:
The proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline is a bipartisan proposal.
Mostly True
By Janie Har • January 14, 2012
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on December 13, 2011 a Senate hearing:
"[Renewable energy] projects . . . get us off foreign oil and away, step by step, from these foreign entanglements that we have to get into to defend our oil supply."
Mostly False
By Alex Kuffner • January 8, 2012
Make Us Great Again
Make Us Great Again
stated on December 21, 2011 a video ad:
Says Newt Gingrich aligned with Nancy Pelosi on global warming.
True
By Molly Moorhead • December 23, 2011
Restore Our Future
Restore Our Future
stated on December 14, 2011 a video ad:
Newt Gingrich "teamed with Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore on global warming."
True
By Molly Moorhead • December 21, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 3, 2011 a Republican presidential candidate forum:
"I never favored cap and trade."
False
By Molly Moorhead • December 7, 2011
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on November 28, 2011 a Web ad:
Says Mitt Romney has said different things about whether global warming is caused by humans
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 30, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2011 a fundraising event in San Jose, Calif.:
Says Texas wildfires are linked to climate change.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 28, 2011
Kevin Coughlin
Kevin Coughlin
stated on August 18, 2011 a campaign speech:
Says there’s not "much evidence to suggest that people have (contributed to global warming) or can do very much to change anything."
False
By Sabrina Eaton • August 31, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 17, 2011 a campaign stop in New Hampshire:
Scientists are "questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. … (It is) more and more being put into question."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor • August 22, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on August 11, 2011 an interview with the 'Miami Herald.':
"The weight of the evidence (on global warming) is that most of it, maybe all of it, is because of natural causes ... it’s fair to say the science is in dispute."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor • August 14, 2011
Jeff Tittel
Jeff Tittel
stated on June 13, 2011 testimony to the General Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities committee:
"One of the reasons that Budweiser stayed in New Jersey is the money they got from RGGI to put solar on their roof to save on their energy costs."
False
By Erin O'Neill • July 4, 2011
Diane Allen
Diane Allen
stated on May 9, 2011 a press release:
Says Ocean Spray is moving its Bordentown processing facility to Pennsylvania largely because of costs associated with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
False
By Bill Wichert • June 20, 2011
Anonymous GOP critics
Anonymous GOP critics
stated on June 7, 2011 a web news story:
Commerce Secretary nominee John Bryson "appears to endorse world government."
False
By Robert Farley • June 9, 2011
Johnny Isakson
Johnny Isakson
stated on March 11, 2011 a Twitter post:
"Since President Obama took office, gas prices have gone up 67 percent."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • March 23, 2011
Ohio Coal Association
Ohio Coal Association
stated on March 1, 2011 testimony to a House subcommittee:
Says that President Obama said in 2008 that his proposed greenhouse gas regulations "will bankrupt" anyone who wants to build a new coal-fired power plant.
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • March 14, 2011
Ken Cuccinelli
Ken Cuccinelli
stated on January 17, 2011 a speech to Tea Party activists.:
"[Tailpipe emissions rules], if fully implemented with all the regulations that go with it, they will keep the temperature from rising nearly five one-hundredths of a degree Fahrenheit. By 2050."
True
By Jacob Geiger • January 28, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on October 7, 2010 e-mail and blog postings:
The cap-and-trade bill before Congress "prevents you from selling your home without the permission of the EPA administrator."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 17, 2010
Morgan Griffith
Morgan Griffith
stated on September 20, 2010 a TV ad:
Rick Boucher "helped write" the cap-and-trade bill
Half-True
By Wes Hester • October 28, 2010
John Loughlin
John Loughlin
stated on October 19, 2010 a WPRI/Providence Journal debate:
Tells David Cicilline, "94 percent of the carbon emissions which you so want to get rid of are caused by nature."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 28, 2010
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