“If global warming goes above 1.5 C “we’re done; there’s no way to turn it around, according to the scientists that tell us.”
What FactCheck.org found
Effective climate action can limit and reduce losses and damages, scientists agree. Warming also "could gradually be reduced again by achieving and sustaining net negative global CO2 emissions," the IPCC says.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 13 March 2023. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 April 2023, 45 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/03/13/remarks-by-president…
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