“Images show how climate change destroyed the Greenland ice sheet and harmed a polar bear from 2009 to 2019.”
Social media posts
in a Facebook post. Claim dated 12 Jan 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
The images of Greenland appear to show what could happen in hundreds of years, not in a 10-year span. The emaciated bear's condition might be due to factors other than climate change like disease, advanced age and injury
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 12 January 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 January 2022, 8 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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