“We are about 1 degree Celsius above the coldest it’s been in the last 10,000 years” and “that’s why we shouldn’t be panicking.”
Social media posts
Instagram. Claim dated 15 May 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
The claim was not made by a climate change expert. Research shows that for a decade, the Earth’s temperature has likely been the hottest in the past 125,000 years.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 15 May 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 May 2023, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/p/CsPtXk-pm3t/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_wat…
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