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Facebook posts stated on April 19, 2024 in a post:

"The Earth is warming because of the sun's changing distance from the Earth, not because of carbon emissions."

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • April 3, 2024

Viral image stated on November 1, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“Global warming is part of (a) natural cycle and there’s nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles.”

By Tom Kertscher • November 3, 2021

Facebook posts stated on July 29, 2021 in an image:

“It would cost $20 billion to end homelessness in the U.S.” and “halting global warming would cost $300 billion.”

By Emily Tian • August 27, 2021

Viral image stated on February 8, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Photo shows the “USS Al Gore Global Warming Research Vessel” covered in ice.

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 16, 2021

Michael Bennet stated on May 30, 2019 in a CNN town hall:

"The vast majority of Americans believe that climate change is real and we need to do something about it."

By Sophie Austin • June 6, 2019

Scott Pruitt stated on March 9, 2017 in an interview on CNBC:

Carbon dioxide is not "a primary contributor to the global warming that we see."

By Lauren Carroll • March 10, 2017

Al Gore stated on October 11, 2016 in a speech:

Global warming leads to much quicker spread of the Zika virus because the increased temperature, "makes mosquitoes mature faster, . . . bite more due…

By Joseph Cariz • October 28, 2016

Paul Babeu stated on May 26, 2016 in an interview on Fox News' "Hannity":

"The president has said the national security threat facing America, the top one, is global warming."

By Anthony Cave • June 4, 2016

Don Beyer stated on March 24, 2016 in a website post.:

"Over 97 percent of the scientific community … believe that humans are contributing to climate change."

By Sean Gorman • April 4, 2016

George Will stated on November 30, 2015 in a TV talk show:

Despite attention on global warming, "fewer Americans carpool today to work than carpooled in 1980" and "SUVs have never been a larger proportion of the…

By Tom Kertscher • December 4, 2015

Scott Walker stated on June 20, 2015 in a speech:

Says Barack Obama told the U.S. Coast Guard Academy "that the number one threat to the military and the world today is global warming."

By Tom Kertscher • June 25, 2015

Lenar Whitney stated on June 25, 2014 in a YouTube video:

"Global warming is a hoax."

By Lauren Carroll • August 1, 2014

Steve Doocy stated on June 24, 2014 in a broadcast of "Fox and Friends.":

"NASA scientists fudged the numbers to make 1998 the hottest year to overstate the extent of global warming."

By Jon Greenberg • June 25, 2014

Mark Pocan stated on January 16, 2014 in a speech:

As a result of climate change, ice fishermen in Wisconsin "are already noticing fewer days they can be out on our ice covered lakes."

By James B. Nelson • February 17, 2014

Steve Goreham stated on August 5, 2013 in a commentary in The Providence Journal:

"Global surface temperatures have been flat for 16 years."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 25, 2013

Richard Durbin stated on June 25, 2013 in a Senate floor speech:

Recent record-low water levels in Lake Michigan are evidence that global warming is leading to "the evaporation of our Great Lakes."

By Louis Jacobson • June 28, 2013

Make Us Great Again stated on December 21, 2011 in a video ad:

Says Newt Gingrich aligned with Nancy Pelosi on global warming.

By Molly Moorhead • December 23, 2011

Restore Our Future stated on December 14, 2011 in a video ad:

Newt Gingrich "teamed with Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore on global warming."

By Molly Moorhead • December 21, 2011

Kevin Coughlin stated on August 18, 2011 in a campaign speech:

Says there’s not "much evidence to suggest that people have (contributed to global warming) or can do very much to change anything."

By Sabrina Eaton • August 31, 2011

Rick Perry stated on August 17, 2011 in a campaign stop in New Hampshire:

Scientists are "questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. … (It is) more and more being…

By Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor • August 22, 2011

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Dean Phillips in Manchester, N.H., 1-18-2024

Did the world know about global warming a century ago, as Dean Phillips said?

By Louis Jacobson • January 21, 2024

Climate change: the Readers’ Choice winner

By Lauren Carroll • December 17, 2014

Dick Cheney dances on both sides of the truth, Donna Brazile splits it down the middle: PolitiFact Oregon Roundup

By Dana Tims • June 26, 2014

Fact-checking recent claims about climate change

By Amy Sherman • May 30, 2014

Fact-checking recent claims about climate change

By Amy Sherman • May 29, 2014

Attacks and claims about climate change heat up the Truth-O-Meter

By Amy Sherman • May 29, 2014

Fact-checking U.S. Sen. Whitehouse’s claims on climate change

By Tim Murphy • March 11, 2014

Super PACs air similar claim on Pelosi-Gingrich ties

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • December 23, 2011

Are Texas wildfires linked to climate change?

By Louis Jacobson • September 29, 2011

Are the Texas wildfires linked to climate change?

By Louis Jacobson • September 28, 2011

Readers talk back to the Truth-O-Meter

By Tim Murphy • November 7, 2010

RFK Jr.’s ‘chemtrails’ probe shows the power conspiracy theories have to shape health policy

By Stephanie Armour • October 20, 2025

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks in Hurricane Milton presser, 10-10-2024

Ron DeSantis dismisses climate change link to stronger hurricanes. Here’s what the science says.

By Samantha Putterman • October 17, 2024

Tim Walz and JD Vance shake hands bwefore their debate in New York, 10-1-2024

VP debate fact-check: What JD Vance and Tim Walz got right, wrong on abortion, immigration

By PolitiFact Staff • October 2, 2024

George Santos has been arrested. Here’s a recap of his alleged falsehoods.

By Louis Jacobson • May 10, 2023

Coal-fired Plant Scherer emitting carbon dioxide

CO2 is only 0.04% of the atmosphere, but a viral video ignores that it’s a major climate threat

By Tom Kertscher • April 21, 2023

US versus China: Which nation is doing more to address climate change?

By Tom Kertscher • March 27, 2023

A guide to George Santos’ dubious statements about drag, Brazil, his 9/11 connection and more

By Louis Jacobson • March 1, 2023

Why are Democrats taking sides in GOP primaries?

By Louis Jacobson, Tom Kertscher • August 1, 2022

PolitiFact’s checklist for thorough fact-checking

By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 31, 2022