Your weekly fact-checks
#Health
Mostly-True: 600 people die annually from heat-related effects, more than from floods, hurricanes and tornadoes in America combined.
Biden may have understated the number of heat deaths. Scientists say that 600 heat deaths a year is almost certainly too low. Studies of excess deaths during U.S. heat waves, suggest that the real number of heat-related deaths could be two to 10 times higher than what Biden cited. (Source: PolitiFact)
False: “Skin cancer is a relatively new phenomenon in the last 60 years or so.”
Skin cancer didn’t emerge in the last 60 years. It has been recognized by scientists since at least 1804. (Source: PolitiFact)
#Climate
False: A wind turbine must “spin continually for over four years just to replace the energy it took to manufacture it.”
A wind turbine can produce in months, not years, more energy than was needed to manufacture it. (Source: PolitiFact)
#Nordics
Partly False: Norway has deported 1,600 Somalis because the situation in their home country has improved.
The Norwegian government did review around 1,400 cases involving people from Somalia who had been granted refugee status in Norway, to assess if conditions in their home country had changed to such an extent that they no longer needed international protection. But a government spokesperson said “very few” of these cases actually saw their refugee status revoked. (Source: Full Fact)
Ikke Dokumenteret: Brændende rødt vejrkort trods sølle 11 grader udløser anklager om klimahysteri
I vejrudsigten bruges nemlig et vejrkort, hvor landjorden trods beskedne temperaturer mellem 11 og 18 grader er farvet mørkerød. Men ifølge manden bag den pågældende udsendelse, vejrvært Peter Tanev, er der tale om en fejl fra hans side. (Source: Tjekdet)
#Other
Mixture: Starting in 2024, the European Union (EU) will require visitors from the United States to apply for a visa in order to enter the region.
Starting in 2024, the EU will require visitors from around 60 visa-exempt countries to apply for travel authorization through the European Travel Information and Authorization System. The ETIAS application is not a visa in the traditional sense. It is similar to the process that the U.S. imposes on citizens of countries exempt from applying for a visa to the United States. (Source: Snopes)
False: “The government just stated under oath that they are in possession of UFOs and nonhuman alien bodies.”
A former intelligence officer, testified at a congressional hearing that the U.S. government has had a decadeslong program to retrieve crashed Unidentified Aerial Phenomena aircraft, and to reverse engineer the technology. He also said "nonhuman biologics" were recovered. However none of the witnesses at the hearing spoke under oath on behalf of the U.S. government. (Source: PolitiFact)
Mixture: Kodak invented the world's first portable, digital camera in the 1970s, but didn't release the technology for public sale until years later to avoid hits to the company's photographic-film business.
Kodak engineer Steve Sasson invented the first portable, digital camera in 1975. Kodak received a patent for the device in 1978, but did not put it into production. While Kodak did not push forward with production in 1975 and challenged the wisdom of moving away from its camera-film market, the company's reasoning for not developing it then was largely due to the device not being ready or practical for the market. (Source: Snopes)
#WTF?! What The Fact?! of the week
False: In the UK you are exempt from paying stamp duty when you purchase a property if you follow sharia law.
Stamp duty still has to be paid on liable properties with a sharia-compliant mortgage. Rules were changed in 2003 to mean it’s only paid once with these types of house-buying products instead of twice. (Source: Full Fact)
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