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Viral claims that cows and beef are climate solutions ignore the impacts of cattle farms
Claim:
Cows are carbon-negative; to tackle climate change, we need to raise more cows and eat more beef.
Rahul Rao
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Source: TikTok, X/Twitter, Social media user, 2025-12-18 -
If CO2 is 0.04% of Earth’s atmosphere, how does it cause climate change?
Common air pollutants – such as sulfur dioxide, or ozone – reach unsafe levels for humans at just a few micrograms (millionths of a gram) per cubic meter, or just a few parts per billion, far less than the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere. Thanks to how the greenhouse effect works, a little CO2 can cause a lot of heating.
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Are grid battery storage systems fire-prone? Early data suggests their fires are rare
Grid batteries can catch fire, but these fires are becoming less common as more grid batteries are built.
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Insights from 8 Months of Monitoring Climate Misinformation on French TV and Radio: Scale and Narratives
529 cases of misleading or false claims were detected between January and August 2025, with the number of incidents tripling during the summer months.
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Do electric vehicles catch fire more often? Early evidence says no
EV battery fires can be hard to extinguish, but data suggests they’re very rare
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Lacks contextDo renewables need a second grid?
Chris Wright’s claims that renewables require to maintain a second grid and are always more expensive leave out crucial context about how electric grids work.
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Do wind turbines work when it’s cold?
Turbine blades can ice over at temperatures below freezing, but many turbines come with systems that prevent this.
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Lacks contextWide Awake Media repeats misleading claims that wind turbines are expensive and environmentally unfriendly
Claim:
Building a single wind turbine requires a jaw-dropping quantity of energy and resources. Wind turbines are expensive, inefficient, bird-, and bat-slaying.
Source: X/Twitter, Wide Awake Media, 2025-07-18 -
Misleading U.S. Department of Energy climate report chooses bias over science, climate scientists say
DOE report written by climate contrarians shares misleading information, misrepresents scientific articles, cherry-picks results to fit a narrative and excludes well-established evidence.
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How much electricity do data centers use, and can they run on renewables?
Data centers are largely powered by fossil fuels today, but that may start to change.
