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Search results for "Germany sets record temperatures for second day running"

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Facebook posts stated on July 22, 2022 in a Facebook post:
Germany weather maps show media exaggerating effects of climate change.
By Jeff Cercone• July 27, 2022
Derrick Crowe stated on June 03, 2017 in as quoted in an Austin American-Statesman news story:
Says each of the past three years "has been the hottest on record."
By W. Gardner Selby• June 15, 2017
Facebook posts stated on July 27, 2022 in a Facebook post:
“96% of U.S. climate data is corrupted.”
By Madison Czopek• August 19, 2022
Rush Holt stated on July 22, 2013 in a campaign ad:
"Every single month since 1985 has been warmer than the historic average. All 12 of the warmest years on record have come in the last 15 years."
By Bill Wichert• July 28, 2013
Steve Doocy stated on June 24, 2014 in a broadcast of "Fox and Friends.":
"NASA scientists fudged the numbers to make 1998 the hottest year to overstate the extent of global warming."
By Jon Greenberg• June 25, 2014
Viral image stated on April 01, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Photos related to gun violence in present-day United States and the Holocaust in Nazi Germany suggest that gun control laws created or exacerbated the genocide of Jews.
By Samantha Putterman• April 8, 2019
Facebook posts stated on September 26, 2023 in a Facebook post:
1936 in the United States was “much hotter than 2023.”
By Sara Swann• November 3, 2023
Greg Gutfeld stated on June 02, 2017 in Fox News The Five show:
"Every single year that there's an increase (in temperature) it's within the margin of error -- meaning it isn't increasing."
By Amy Sherman• June 9, 2017
Jesse Watters stated on January 31, 2024 in a segment of "Jesse Watters Primetime" on Fox News:
“We think the Earth’s warming” because “we’re literally cooking the books” with flawed temperature data.
By Madison Czopek• February 8, 2024
Jeanne Ives stated on December 01, 2016 in a floor speech:
"Germany managed to increase its use of renewables and its output of carbon dioxide at the same time -- because it resorted to cheap coal to keep the lights on at a price its people could afford."
By Kevin Hoffman• December 16, 2016
Steve Goreham stated on August 05, 2013 in a commentary in The Providence Journal:
"Global surface temperatures have been flat for 16 years."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• August 25, 2013
Patrick Moore stated on March 11, 2014 in an interview on 'Hannity':
Earth "has not warmed for the last 17 years."
By Katie Sanders• March 17, 2014
Jim Spencer stated on June 18, 2018 in a news blog post:
Says May 2018 marked the 401st straight month of global temperatures exceeding the 20th century average.
By W. Gardner Selby• June 20, 2018
Ron Johnson stated on August 01, 2016 in an interview:
"The climate hasn't warmed in quite a few years. That is proven scientifically."  
By Tom Kertscher• August 12, 2016
Marco Rubio stated on May 20, 2014 in an interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly:
Surface temperatures on Earth "have stabilized."
By Louis Jacobson• May 27, 2014
Kirk Watson stated on December 31, 2012 in an opinion piece in the Austin American-Statesman:
Says in "our region," 2011 was worst drought year ever recorded.
By Sue Owen• January 15, 2013
Barack Obama stated on February 12, 2013 in the State of the Union Address:
"The 12 hottest years on record have come in the last 15 years."
By Louis Jacobson, Katie Sanders• February 15, 2013
General Beauregard Lee stated on February 02, 2011 in his website:
Says he predicts the weather better than Punxsutawney Phil.
By Willoughby Mariano• February 4, 2011
Mary Matalin stated on October 22, 2009 in CNN's Situation Room program:
"For the last decade the climate has been cooling."
By Catharine Richert• October 27, 2009
Peggy Noonan stated on February 16, 2014 in a broadcast of ABC's "This Week":
Says "(President) Reagan's second inaugural was moved inside the Capitol. It was. Because of a terrible snowstorm."
By Jon Greenberg• February 16, 2014

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