A 2013 CBS video segment about weather modification was dishonestly reframed as a clip about Hurricanes Irma and Harvey.
Publication: climate change
Truth or Fiction?→ Photo Shows Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport Flooding After Hurricane Harvey-Fiction!
Photo Shows Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport Flooding After Hurricane Harvey-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: A photo that began circulating on August 28, 2017, shows Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport flooding in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
Snopes→ Did the Department of Energy ask a Scientist to Remove the Words ‘Climate Change’ from a Grant Proposal?
A professor posted what she claims is an email from the DOE asking her to remove the words “climate change” from her proposal.
Truth or Fiction?→ Child Miners Exploited for Electric Car Batteries-Misleading!
Child Miners Exploited for Electric Car Batteries-Misleading! Summary of eRumor: Reports that child miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, some as young as four years old, are forced to mine cobalt needed to make electric car batteries have
Truth or Fiction?→ Electric Cars-Makes You Think: Commentary About Real Cost of Electric Cars-
Electric Cars-Makes You Think: Commentary About Real Cost of Electric Cars-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: Variations of a commentary titled “Electric Cars-Makes You Think” that compare “the real cost” of operating electric vs. ga
Snopes→ Peer-Reviewed Study Proves All Recent Global Warming Fabricated by Climatologists?
A blog post, even if you like it and it is presented in downloadable PDF form, is not a peer-reviewed study.
Snopes→ Trillion-ton Iceberg Breaks Off Ice Shelf in Antarctica, Scientists Say
The iceberg has double the volume of Lake Erie, and calved away from the Larson C ice shelf between 10 and 12 July 2017.
Snopes→ Did 58 Scientific Papers Published in 2017 Say Global Warming is a Myth?
An article on Breitbart News used flawed interpretations from a climate skeptic blog to amplify a grossly inaccurate understanding of climatological research.
Truth or Fiction?→ U.S. Pays $1 Billion into Green Climate Fund, Top Polluters Pay Nothing-Truth! & Misleading!
U.S. Pays $1 Billion into Green Climate Fund, Top Polluters Pay Nothing-Truth! & Misleading! Summary of eRumor: The United States has paid $1 billion into the United Nation’s Green Climate Fund while the world’s top polluters — Chin
Snopes→ Trump Just Raided His Own EPA?
Reports that executive branch agents raided and shut down the EPA and documented that climate change is a hoax are fake news.
Truth or Fiction?→ Maxine Waters: Pictures of Tide Prove Climate Change-Fiction!
Maxine Waters: Pictures of Tide Prove Climate Change-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, a Democrat from California, tweeted side-by-side pictures of Venice Beach at high and low tide as proof that climate change is real and is impa
Snopes→ Did Maxine Waters Use a Picture of the Tide Receding as Proof of Climate Change?
An account parodying the Congresswoman sent the tweet in response to President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord.
Snopes→ American Mayors Vow To Fight Climate Change Despite Withdrawal From Paris Agreement
Cities are mulling over their own paths forward after the United States' withdrawal from the landmark climate deal.
Snopes→ Weather Channel Co-Founder Denies Climate Change
Comments by Weather Channel co-founder John Coleman supposedly refute global warming. Are his remarks an accurate analysis of climate change?
Snopes→ Does Trump Have the Authority to Pull Out of the Paris Climate Agreement?
From a Constitutional perspective, the answer is less clear than you might think.
Snopes→ Did Donald Trump Claim Global Warming Is a Hoax?
Donald Trump and his campaign refused to acknowledge instances of his referring to global warming/climate change as a "hoax." What does the public record show?
Snopes→ Official Says President Trump Expected to Pull U.S. From Paris Climate Deal
The unpredictable U.S. president has not yet made an official announcement about the deal, but has said on Twitter that he will do so in the next few days.
Snopes→ Did the ‘Doomsday’ Seed Vault Flood Due to Global Warming?
Although melting permafrost did cause flooding in the access tunnel to the vault, the vault itself was not breached and the seeds were not threatened or harmed.
Snopes→ Global Warming: 1922
A newspaper article warning that climate change was melting Arctic ice and disrupting wildlife was published nearly a century ago.
Snopes→ Did a 1977 ‘Time’ Story Offer Tips on ‘How to Survive the Coming Ice Age’?
While a number of media outlets reported on some briefly-lived scientific fears over global cooling in the 1970s, viral images purporting to show a cover story on the topic are doctored.
Snopes→ EPA Reportedly Eliminates Program Helping Cities Deal With Climate Change
An unidentified official said that the issue should not be "controlled from inside Washington, D.C."
Truth or Fiction?→ Warning from Shell Oil Company About Climate Change-Truth!
Warning from Shell Oil Company About Climate Change-Truth! Summary of eRumor: Shell Oil Company released a 1991 video about the “catastrophic risks” of climate change that warned about rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, cli
Snopes→ Does a Single Volcanic Eruption Release as Much CO2 As All of Humanity Has to Date?
No matter how you look at it, the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by volcanoes is significantly lower than the amount emitted by anthropogenic sources on human timescales.
Truth or Fiction?→ Obituary: Great Barrier Reef is Dead-Mostly Fiction!
Obituary: Great Barrier Reef is Dead-Mostly Fiction! Summary of eRumor: A widely circulated obituary claims that the Great Barrier Reef has died after an impressive 25 million year run. The Truth: Scientists have disputed claims that the Great Barrie
Snopes→ Do Scott Pruitt’s Statements on CO2 and Global Warming Misrepresent Scientific Consensus?
EPA administrator Pruitt told CNBC that he does not agree that carbon dioxide is "a primary contributor to the global warming that we see," arguing that scientists are still debating the issue.
Truth or Fiction?→ Top Scientist Hal Lewis Resigns Over Climate Change Corruption-Truth! & Disputed!
Top Scientist Hal Lewis Resigns Over Climate Change Corruption-Truth! & Disputed! Summary of eRumor: Scientist Harold “Hal” Lewis resigned from the American Physical Society (APS), writing that the “global warming scam̶