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IncorrectThere’s no doubt on CO2’s role in climate change, despite Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan’s claims
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Whether all that additional carbon dioxide is a function of human activity, that’s still debatable.
Source: Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, 2025-04-22 -
MisleadingCan solar panels warm their surroundings? Yes, but so can other materials
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Solar panels can heat up their surroundings and have unknown consequences on the surrounding environment.
Source: Twitter/X, Social media users, 2025-04-17 -
UnsupportedNo evidence that EVs cause infertility, and their magnetic fields are similar to those from household electronics
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Electric vehicles cause infertility. Being in an electric car will lower your testosterone.
Source: YouTube, Garry Lineham, Justin Frandson, 2025-02-07 -
UnsupportedNo evidence that eroding wind turbine blades harm farmland
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Farmers have lost their crops and livelihood due to microplastics and fiberglass from eroding wind turbine blades.
Source: X/Twitter, Social media users, 2025-01-17 -
MisleadingContrary to Wide Awake Media’s misleading claims, wind turbines are greener than fossil fuels by multiple measures
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A staggering quantity of CO2 emissions are required to erect a single wind turbine. A significant proportion of retired turbine blades end up in landfill sites, unable to be recycled.
Source: X/Twitter, Wide Awake Media, 2025-01-27 -
Lacks contextSome evidence that wind turbines can harm eagles, but more are killed by other causes
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Windmills are a threat to eagles’ population.
Source: Instagram, X/Twitter, Social media users, 2025-01-16
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What caused Iberia’s blackout? Renewable energy’s opponents were quick to blame solar and wind, but multiple factors appear to be at play
We still do not have official information on what caused the blackout, but we can say that blaming solar or wind is likely overly simplistic and misleading.
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Do renewables increase the price of electricity? Not necessarily
Adding more solar and wind can increase the price that homes pay for electricity. But energy type is only one piece of the puzzle, and simply because a grid has more solar or wind does not mean it is more expensive.
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Natural gas may be cleaner than coal, but it isn’t cleaner than nuclear or renewable energy
More than one-fifth of the world’s energy is drawn from natural gas. That part varies around the world: as low…