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.
“The waves in the video are in the Bay of Bengal and were caused due to Cyclone Fani.”
“This video is recent and shows a ship being caught in storm during Cyclone Fani.”
“Claim: Rahul Gandhi eats samosa in flood hit area”
“Former Greens leader Bob Brown claims the greenhouse gases from his Hobart- Queensland Adani protest convoy will amount to less than 30 seconds of emissions from the future mine.”
“The Coalition, through its "hard work", turned around an emissions deficit inherited from Labor.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Taylor's claim is misleading. When the Coalition came to power in September 2013, the most up-to-date projections available were from a Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency report almost a year earlier.…
“Post earthquake road images purpoted to be from Spain”
“the largest … use of solar energy is actually NSW".”
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Ms Berejiklian's claim doesn't check out. Fact Check compared NSW with other states in three ways: Of the resulting 11 measures presented in this fact check, New South Wales held the top ranking in only one. Queensland …
“Video showing floods in Mozambique as a result of Cyclone Idai”
“Facilitating farmers for installing solar water pumps in field irrigation”
“Emissions are coming down in Australia”
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Ms Vanstone's claim is misleading. Latest federal government figures suggest that although greenhouse gas emissions have fallen over the past 10 years, emissions started trending upwards again about four years ago. The …