In light of the historic climate deal made at the United Nations’ Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris, FactCheck.org has compiled a recap of misleading and false claims about climate change that were fact-checked in 2014-2015. The Paris Agreement, announced on Dec. 12, was approved by 195 countries committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to slow global warming.
The 2015 claims were investigated through FactCheck.org’s SciCheck feature, which focuses on misleading assertions about science made by partisans to influence policy.
Some of the statements reviewed by FactCheck.org include:
FactCheck.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center devoted to improving public knowledge and understanding by fact-checking statements made by major U.S. political players. SciCheck, a feature of FactCheck.org, is made possible by a grant from the Stanton Foundation.
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