Fact Check Posts – Page 7

Viral image
stated on September 8, 2021 a Facebook post

"Florida has had 119 hurricanes since 1850,” yet experts are saying “the last one was due to climate change."

September 13, 2021

Bjorn Lomborg
stated on September 3, 2021 an column in the Wall Street Journal

“The frequency of hurricanes making landfall in the continental U.S. has declined slightly since 1900...There aren’t more powerful hurricanes either.”

By Jon Greenberg • September 9, 2021

Sean Casten
stated on August 23, 2021 remarks at a press conference

Says the 1995 Chicago heat wave was “the largest single-day, non-war fatality in the United States” prior to 9/11, and “we are now expecting temperatures that hot in Chicago every summer.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • September 1, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on July 29, 2021 an image

“It would cost $20 billion to end homelessness in the U.S.” and “halting global warming would cost $300 billion.”

August 27, 2021

X posts
stated on July 20, 2021 a tweet

Says “Jeff Bezos will put 300 (metric tons) of carbon into the atmosphere for 180 seconds in space.”

By Jon Greenberg • July 20, 2021

Viral image
stated on July 17, 2021 a Facebook post

A car flooded in Germany had a sticker critical of Greta Thunberg.

July 19, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on July 10, 2021 a post

Carbon dioxide “is not a problem. The Earth has more than enough land and ocean plant life to metabolize it.”

By Monique Curet • July 15, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on June 18, 2021 a Facebook post

“California literally just told everyone to not charge their electric cars due to power shortage.”

By Shasha Hupka • July 2, 2021

Instagram posts
stated on June 21, 2021 an Instagram post

Says Greta Thunberg said, "the climate crisis doesn’t exist."

By Jon Greenberg • June 22, 2021

Chuck Grassley
stated on June 7, 2021 an op-ed

The Biden administration “ignores the negative environmental impact created by lithium mining.”

By Jon Greenberg • June 9, 2021

Viral image
stated on April 29, 2021 a Facebook post

"Manufacturing the battery for one electric car produces the same amount of carbon dioxide as running a petrol car for eight years."

By Andy Nguyen • May 11, 2021

Survival International
stated on April 22, 2021 a website press release

With the goal to preserve 30% of the earth’s land and water by 2030, “300 million people stand to lose their land and livelihood, most of them tribal and indigenous peoples.”

By Jon Greenberg • May 7, 2021

Ben Cline
stated on April 22, 2021 a floor speech.

The Green New Deal “costs an average American household almost $700,000 through 2029.”

By Warren Fiske • May 5, 2021

Kevin McCarthy
stated on April 28, 2021 a Fox News appearance

Says Joe Biden is “going to control how much meat you can eat.”

By Bill McCarthy • April 29, 2021

Fox News Channel
stated on April 23, 2021 a TV graphic

"Biden's climate requirements" will "cut 90% of red meat from diet" to a "max 4 lbs per year" and "one burger per month."

By Bill McCarthy • April 26, 2021

Instagram posts
stated on April 21, 2021 an Instagram video

“Those 30-, 40-year mortgages” prove that banks know climate change “is not going to happen.”

By Andy Nguyen • April 26, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on April 18, 2021 a Facebook post

Two photos show climate change “is a hoax.”

April 21, 2021

Citizens United
stated on March 31, 2021 a tweet

Says Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan “is the Green New Deal.”

By Jon Greenberg • April 2, 2021

Cathy McMorris Rodgers
stated on March 18, 2021 a House hearing

The Democratic clean energy plan is pro-China, because "90% of the solar panels, 80% of the wind machines, 90% of the rare earth minerals … are in Asia or in China.”

By Jon Greenberg • March 29, 2021

Kevin McCarthy
stated on March 14, 2021 an interview on Fox News

“Democrats have accomplished a lot in just 2 months ... 1 Million energy jobs destroyed.”

By Jon Greenberg • March 17, 2021

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