What is RCP8.5? Unpacking misleading claims about climate scenarios
The United Nations and climate scientists haven’t admitted their climate change projections are wrong, contrary to claims from Trump and others
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Fossil fuels receive more government support than renewables
Moreover, fossil fuels are often to blame when energy prices rise, contrary to some claims that climate change is a ‘scam’.
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2025 review of climate misinformation and environmental coverage in the French media
For the first time, climate misinformation broadcast on television and radio has been quantified and qualified over an entire year.
Over the course of 2025, we detected a total of 665 cases, an average of 13 cases per week. -
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. likes regenerative agriculture, but what is it?
The term has no fixed definition. Its methods do often make farming more sustainable, but its claims are hard to verify.
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InaccurateViral 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.
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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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Myths about weather control and geoengineering: here’s what you should know
Humans cannot control Earth’s weather with technology at a large scale – even at smaller scales, our capabilities are extremely limited. Humans can, however, have a long-term influence on weather through climate change by emitting greenhouse gases.
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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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Major wine regions could disappear from global warming, Europe to be hit especially hard
Wine grapes can only be grown in specific conditions – climate change is affecting which regions are suitable, and some current regions will likely be lost.
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InaccurateNo, the ocean is not ‘cooling’, contrary to viral claims – it’s been warming at an accelerating rate
Claim:
Global ocean temperatures have been cooling, proving there is no global warming.
Source: X/Twitter, Peter Clack, 2025-07-20
