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Latest Fact-Checks In Climate Change

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Mary Matalin
Mary Matalin
stated on October 22, 2009 CNN's Situation Room program
"For the last decade the climate has been cooling."
False
By Catharine Richert • October 27, 2009
PlantsNeedCO2.org
PlantsNeedCO2.org
stated on October 5, 2009 an ad in the Washington Post
"Not only is there no scientific evidence that CO2 is a pollutant, higher CO2 concentrations actually help ecosystems support more plant and animal life."
False
By Catharine Richert • October 7, 2009
EnergyCitizens.org
EnergyCitizens.org
stated on October 4, 2009 an ad in the Washington Post
The cap-and-trade bill will mean "2 million jobs lost."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • October 5, 2009
EnergyCitizens.org
EnergyCitizens.org
stated on September 30, 2009 an ad in the Washington Post
Gas will reach $4 a gallon under a cap-and-trade plan.
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • September 30, 2009
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on June 24, 2009 a letter to the Minnesota delegation in Washington
On a cap-and-trade plan.
Full Flop
By Catharine Richert • September 24, 2009
Lamar Alexander
Lamar Alexander
stated on September 16, 2009 a press release
The Obama administration's cap-and-trade plan would create "a $1,761 yearly energy tax."
False
By Catharine Richert • September 18, 2009
Investor's Business Daily
Investor's Business Daily
stated on September 2, 2009 an editorial
"Cap-and-trade is wildly unpopular with Americans."
False
By Catharine Richert • September 3, 2009
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on August 31, 2009 an op-ed published in the Huffington Post
"Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • September 2, 2009
House Republican Conference
House Republican Conference
stated on July 17, 2009 the House Republicans' Web site
"The government is going to tell Americans they need to replace functioning stoves in their homes with 'government-certified' stoves and use taxpayer dollars to do so."
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • July 22, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on July 14, 2009 a Washington Post op-ed
On a cap-and-trade plan.
Full Flop
By Catharine Richert • July 20, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on July 14, 2009 an op-ed article in the Washington Post.
"Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • July 16, 2009
Chuck Grassley
Chuck Grassley
stated on June 28, 2009 interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos
"If the United States moves ahead by itself (on cap-and-trade)... after 30 or 40 years, we're going to reduce CO2 by less than 1 percent."
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • July 2, 2009
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on June 10, 2009 MSNBC interview.
Contends that President Obama "literally said (if) his cap-and-trade proposals were to pass, that utility rates, his words now, would, 'necessarily skyrocket.'"
True
By Catharine Richert • June 11, 2009
Cato Institute
Cato Institute
stated on April 1, 2009 a political advertisement.
"There has been no net global warming for over a decade now."
False
April 1, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 11, 2008 Fairbanks, Alaska
On whether global warming is man-made.
Full Flop
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 12, 2008
Tom Tancredo
Tom Tancredo
stated on May 15, 2007 Columbia, S.C.
"For every single scientist that tells you (global warming is) happening and that it's our fault...I can stack up another group of reports that say just the opposite."
False
By Bill Adair • June 12, 2007
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