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Latest Fact-Checks In Climate Change

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Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on November 12, 2014 in 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 in 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
American Crossroads
American Crossroads
stated on September 16, 2014 in 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
Cory Gardner
Cory Gardner
stated on July 28, 2014 in an interview on Univision Radio:
"We would create thousands of jobs in Colorado, if the Keystone Pipeline were to be built."
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • July 31, 2014
Ed Gillespie
Ed Gillespie
stated on May 14, 2014 in a news release.:
Mark Warner’s "record is one of acting against" the Keystone XL pipeline.
Mostly False
By Nancy Madsen • June 23, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on May 20, 2014 in an interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly:
Surface temperatures on Earth "have stabilized."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 27, 2014
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on March 21, 2014 in public remarks:
"There are over 100 pipelines between the United States and Canada right now."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • March 26, 2014
Patrick Moore
Patrick Moore
stated on March 11, 2014 in an interview on 'Hannity':
Earth "has not warmed for the last 17 years."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • March 17, 2014
Jim Bridenstine
Jim Bridenstine
stated on June 11, 2013 in a House floor speech:
"This president spends 30 times as much money on global warming research as he does on weather forecasting and warning."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2013
Joe Barton
Joe Barton
stated on February 12, 2013 in in reaction to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address.:
Says U.S. greenhouse gas "emissions are at 20-year lows."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 1, 2013
Greg Walden
Greg Walden
stated on January 29, 2013 in a Tweet:
Says "Did you know that the #KeystoneXL project is expected to create 20,000 American jobs, including more than 800 in Oregon?"
Mostly False
By Charles Pope • February 27, 2013
Environment New Jersey
Environment New Jersey
stated on December 18, 2012 in an online post about global warming:
"Hurricane Sandy, the most destructive Atlantic storm ever."
Mostly False
By Caryn Shinske • January 6, 2013
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
stated on July 26, 2012 in a TV ad.:
Tim Kaine supported "higher energy costs for families."
Mostly False
By Nancy Madsen • August 21, 2012
Michael J. Gardiner
Michael J. Gardiner
stated on July 26, 2012 in a debate:
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks grounded commercial air traffic, "there was a temperature drop while the airplanes weren't flying, for the week afterwards."
Mostly False
By Tom Mooney • August 1, 2012
stated on July 2, 2012 in a news release:
The United States can immediately tap a domestic energy resource of "more than 1.5 trillion barrels of oil, six times more than Saudi Arabia."
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • July 12, 2012
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on December 13, 2011 in 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
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on July 6, 2010 in a television campaign ad:
A bill to cap carbon emissions "could cost Ohio 100,000 jobs."
Mostly False
By Stephen Koff • August 2, 2010
EnergyCitizens.org
EnergyCitizens.org
stated on October 4, 2009 in 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 in 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
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on August 31, 2009 in 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
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