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#Climate
False: More people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change.
Worldwide, extreme weather disasters made worse by climate change caused more than 2 million deaths between 1970 and 2021, the World Meteorological Organization said.Because of better warning systems, death rates from weather disasters have declined over the past 50 years. Some climate change skeptics have misconstrued this as evidence against climate change. (Source: PolitiFact)
False: The term global warming was changed to climate change because the earth wasn’t warming as predicted.
The claim the term global warming was replaced by climate change because the earth hasn’t warmed as predicted is false. Experts told AAP FactCheck the terms were never interchangeable, and both terms are still used but have distinct meanings. Scientific data and major studies also disprove the claim the planet has not warmed. (Source: Australian Associated Press - AAP)
False: "America’s C40 cities will ban meat, dairy, new clothes, private cars by 2030.”
A 2019 report by the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group examined consumption-based carbon emissions in its network of cities in six categories, including food, travel and clothing.The report highlighted progressive and ambitious targets to reduce emissions, but said it was not advocating that cities meet the ambitious targets. We could find no evidence that any U.S. cities have agreed to ban meat, dairy, new clothes or private cars. (Source: PolitiFact)
#Nuclear
False: Release of waste water from Fukushima is spreading radioactive material in the Pacific Ocean
The shared map "depicts maximum tsunami wave heights and not radiation". (Source: Agence France-Presse - AFP)
False: Lingering radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki should have made them uninhabitable for centuries, so they were never nuked
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were each bombed with a nuclear weapon in 1945, killing more than 200,000 people, but radiation and radioactive contamination dissipated and decayed quickly. (Source: Reuters)
#Nordics
Falsk: Arbeidsledigheten i Norge er rekordlav.
Bollestad referer til et besøk hun selv gjorde hos Frelsesarmeen i Oslo. I november 2022 var det én prosent med full jobb og totalt ni prosent tilknyttet arbeidslivet i matkø i Oslo, Sarpsborg og Drammen. Hvorvidt det er flere i jobb som får utdelt mat i 2023 har man ikke tall på. (Source: Faktisk)
#Other
Misleading: 7 out of 8 GOP presidential candidates would "pardon Donald Trump"
The nominees were asked if they would support the former US president as the Republican nominee if he were convicted, the question was not about pardoning him. (Source: Agence France-Presse - AFP)
Correct Attribution: In August 2023, Pope Francis said transgender people are "children of God."
In an interview with a Spanish-language religious magazine, Francis said he had told a group of transgender people, "sois hijas de Dios." The English translation of that phrase is, "You are daughters of God." Though he was speaking to a specific group, it's reasonable to infer that this reflects his general sentiment about transgender people. (Source: Snopes)
#WTF?! What The Fact?! of the week
False: Hillary Clinton was “EXECUTED December 31, 2018.”
Hillary Clinton was not killed in December 2018. She has made numerous public appearances in the years since. (Source: PolitiFact)
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