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False: West Coast wildfires have nothing to do with Climate Change.
Climate-General Events-Natural Disasters Politics-General

False: West Coast wildfires have nothing to do with Climate Change.
Misleading: Carbon dioxide emissions of the US went down under the Trump administration.
Climate-General Politics-General

Misleading: Carbon dioxide emissions of the US went down under the Trump administration.
Misleading: Joe Biden wants to grow the fracking industry.
Climate-General Politics-People

Misleading: Joe Biden wants to grow the fracking industry.
True: Big oil misled the public into believing plastic would be recycled.
Climate-General Economics-Business

True: Big oil misled the public into believing plastic would be recycled.
True: UK witnessed coldest Monday in nearly 40 years as thermometers hit zero degrees.
Climate-General

True: UK witnessed coldest Monday in nearly 40 years as thermometers hit zero degrees.
True: Trump called climate change a hoax.
Climate-General Politics-People

True: Trump called climate change a hoax.
True: The dramatic drop in greenhouse gases and air pollutants seen during the global lockdown will have little impact on global warming.
Climate-General Health-General

True: The dramatic drop in greenhouse gases and air pollutants seen during the global lockdown will have little impact on global warming.
True: Britain breaks record for coal-free power generation.
Climate-General

True: Britain breaks record for coal-free power generation.
Unverifiable: Uttarakhand forest fire season has reached its peak with 46 wildfire incidents in 2020.
Climate-General Events-Natural Disasters

Unverifiable: Uttarakhand forest fire season has reached its peak with 46 wildfire incidents in 2020.
True: Atypically cooler temperatures in the atmosphere above the north pole have led to a rapid depletion of the ozone over the Arctic.
Climate-General Climate-General

True: Atypically cooler temperatures in the atmosphere above the north pole have led to a rapid depletion of the ozone over the Arctic.
False: Burj Khalifa is visible from Noida because of less pollution.
Climate-General Health-Covid

False: Burj Khalifa is visible from Noida because of less pollution.
False: High temperature and high relative humidity significantly reduce the transmission of COVID-19.
Climate-General Health-Covid

False: High temperature and high relative humidity significantly reduce the transmission of COVID-19.
False: Reducing our global consumption of fossil fuels will have virtually no impact on global temperatures.
Climate-General

False: Reducing our global consumption of fossil fuels will have virtually no impact on global temperatures.
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