“Claim: BJP functionaries distributed 2 bananas for flood hit TN people”
Fact Crescendo 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.
“Fringe leftists are now advocating for cow fart bags to capture farts as a way to help prevent ‘global warming.’”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“Extreme weather can be linked to global warming.”
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine rated this: In some cases
“Claim: Crocodile escaped from crocodile in Gujarat flood”
Fact Crescendo rated this: FALSE HEADLINE
“A photo of the body of a dead child has been going viral on social media, with the claim that the little boy died as a result of the Bihar floods.”
The Quint rated this: FALSE
“Many photos of the flood-ravaged state have gone viral on social media but not all of them are actually from Assam or not from the recent floods.”
The Quint rated this: FALSE
“Extreme weather conditions melted cars in Kuwait”
PesaCheck rated this: FALSE
“Claim image depicting cyclone Vayu effect in Mumbai”
Fact Crescendo rated this: FALSE
“Claim: Kuwait recorded 63 degree Celsius temperature”
Fact Crescendo rated this: FALSE
“Kuwait has recorded the world’s highest temperature of 62 degrees Celsius this Saturday.”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
“The image of ‘Cyclone Vayu’ hitting the Mumbai beach”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
“The vast majority of Americans believe that climate change is real and we need to do something about it.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
“Claim the rise in temperature in weather affect the speed of the electric meter”
Fact Crescendo rated this: Fact Crescendo Rating FALSE
“Claim old video claims to be scenes from cyclone fani hitting the eastern coast”
Fact Crescendo rated this: Fact Crescendo Rating FALSE
“Claim: Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Rahul visiting flood area”
Fact Crescendo rated this: TRUE
“Claim: Modi diverted Fani Cyclone from Tamil Nadu”
Fact Crescendo rated this: FALSE
“I mean, 189 million bucks over the next four years. They are spending almost as much to keep Christmas Island open in the previous four weeks as they will spend in new money over the next four years on climate change.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Overblown
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Senator Di Natale's claim is overblown. The Greens leader has compared several months of detention costs with only part of the Coalition's new spending on climate change, allocated in the 2019 budget. And by focussing o…
“Claim did RSS workers help people affected by cyclone fani in Orissa”
Fact Crescendo rated this: Fact Crescendo Rating FALSE
“Claim old video shared as impact of fani cyclone”
Fact Crescendo rated this: Fact Crescendo Rating FALSE
“The flooding video at Howrah bridge was not taken during Cyclone Fani”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE