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“We think the Earth’s warming” because “we’re literally cooking the books” with flawed temperature data.”
Jesse Watters Fox News host. Claim dated 31 Jan 2024.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse

What PolitiFact found

There is consensus among groups that track climate trends that Earth’s annual global average temperatures are rising.

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

Jesse Watters (Fox News host) made this claim around 31 January 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 February 2024, 8 days later. Its rating was “False”.

Jesse Watters has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.

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