Was 2014 “the planet’s warmest year on record,” as President Obama has said? This FlackCheck video uses an April 20 report from our SciCheck feature to examine that claim.
FlackCheck Video: Warmest Year
Issues: climate change
FactChecking Huckabee, Fiorina and Carson
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The Extreme Weather-Warming Connection
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Obama and the ‘Warmest Year on Record’
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Cruz on the Global Cooling Myth and Galileo
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Cruz Distorts NASA’s Mission, Budget
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Will Power Plant Rules Cause Blackouts?
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FlackCheck.org Video: SciCheck Findings
FlackCheck.org, our sister website for political literacy, recaps the recent work of SciCheck, our new feature on false and misleading scientific claims that are made by partisans to influence public policy.
Nothing False About Temperature Data
Rep. Gary Palmer falsely claimed on a radio show that temperature data used to measure global climate change have been “falsified” and manipulated.
Distorting Climate Change Threats, Solutions
Two potential Republican candidates for president distorted the facts about climate change and casually dismissed well-established threats and potential solutions.