“Video of cyclone Amphan's wrath in the coastal districts of Odisha”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
Climate and environment
631 claims on this topic checked by other fact-checking organisations. Topics are sorted by the words in each claim and cover English-language checks.
“Leaving hand sanitiser in your car during hot weather will cause it to catch fire”
TheJournal.ie rated this: False
TheJournal.ie says: In order for a fire to start at a temperature below several hundred degrees Celsius, there would need to be a spark or source of ignition involved - it would not auto-ignite at summer weather temperatures.
“Earth isn’t warming because cold weather and snowstorms still occur.”
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine rated this: False
“Global warming is causing sea level to rise.”
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine rated this: True
“Claim: BJP men demolished solar panels in Uttar Pradesh”
Fact Crescendo rated this: False
“Over the past two years, climate and weather disaster damage has cost the U.S. over $400 billion.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
“Climate change is nothing but a bunch of computer models that attempt to tell us what's going to happen in 50 years or 30. Notice the predictions are never for next year or the next 10 years. They're always for way, way, way, way out there, when none of us are going to be around or alive to know whether or not they were true.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“A Facebook post claims that an eruption from Italian volcano Mount Etna has created more greenhouse gas emissions than all mankind throughout history.”
AAP FactCheck rated this: False
“Image showing floods in Rongo”
PesaCheck rated this: FALSE
“Video of floods in Dar es Salaam”
PesaCheck rated this: FALSE
“Video of floods in Dar es Salaam”
PesaCheck rated this: False.
“The arsonists were responsible for about 50% of the bushfires. Not climate change. Arsonists.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“Claim: Actors Ajith, Vijay announced relief fund for Australia wildfire”
Fact Crescendo rated this: Fact Crescendo Rating: False
“We cut New York City’s carbon footprint twice as much as the rest of the country.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
“The Australia bushfires have nothing to do with climate change; it was arson.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“China produces 90% of the world’s carbon emissions pollution.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Global warming. ... The oceans are going to rise. One-eighth of an inch within the next 250 years, we're going to be wiped out!”
FactCheck.org rated this: 1/8 Inch PER YEAR
“The United Nations is telling us that in the years to come there are going to be hundreds of millions of climate refugees causing national security issues all over the world.”
FactCheck.org rated this: U.N. Doesn't Endorse Estimate
“Claim: Tamil Nadu students invented solar power car”
Fact Crescendo rated this: FALSE
“Australia's carbon emissions are the lowest they've ever been”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Incorrect