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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

Sheldon Whitehouse stated on December 17, 2014 in a Senate floor speech:

"January through November 2014, the year so far, were the hottest first 11 months of any year recorded."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• January 12, 2015

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

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

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

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

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

Danielle Pletka stated on November 25, 2018 in in a panel discussion:

"We need to also recognize that we just had two of the coldest years, biggest drop in global temperatures that we have had since the 1980s, the biggest in the last 100 years. We don't talk about that."

By John Kruzel• November 28, 2018

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

Donald Trump stated on January 26, 2018 in an interview with Piers Morgan:

"The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now they’re setting records, so okay, they’re at a record level."

By Jon Greenberg• January 29, 2018

Instagram posts stated on April 15, 2023 in an Instagram reel:

“The Antarctic ice cap is not melting.”

By Sara Swann• April 25, 2023

Barry Smitherman stated on November 17, 2013 in :

"The Earth is not warming."

By W. Gardner Selby• December 13, 2013

Facebook posts stated on September 12, 2022 in a video on Facebook:

"55,000 years ago the world was 2 degrees warmer Celsius than it is today.”

By Kristin Hugo• October 10, 2022

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

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

Mo Brooks stated on May 16, 2018 in a congressional hearing:

"You’re going to have an increase in the amount of ice in Antarctica because of global warming."

By Louis Jacobson• May 21, 2018

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

Rush Limbaugh stated on February 17, 2019 in in an interview:

"Climate change is nothing but a bunch of computer models that attempt to tell us what's going to happen in 50 years or 30. Notice the predictions are never for next year or the next 10 years. They're always for way, way, way, way out there, when none of us are going to be around or alive to know whether or not they were true."

By John Kruzel• February 19, 2019

X posts stated on January 07, 2014 in posts on Twitter:

It’s warmer on Mars than it is in parts of the United States and Canada during the polar vortex.

By Julie Kliegman• January 7, 2014

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

Fact-checking pundits on climate change

By Katie Sanders• September 23, 2014

Earth Day 2016: 6 things to know about climate change

By Linda Qiu• April 21, 2016

Fact-checking the Oct. 26 news shows

By Lauren Carroll, Steve Contorno, Nai Issa, Aaron Sharockman• October 26, 2014

CO2 is only 0.04% of the atmosphere, but a viral video ignores that it’s a major climate threat

By Tom Kertscher• April 21, 2023

Pew study finds Rush Limbaugh least trustworthy news source

By Aaron Sharockman• October 21, 2014

The Chief and The Sheriff: Two views of Milwaukee's homicide picture

By Dave Umhoefer• March 18, 2013

How to stay warm without power in a winter storm

By Daniel Funke• February 18, 2021

In UN speech, Joe Biden calls for collective action on climate, COVID-19

By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• September 21, 2021

Top 5 fact-checks for March

By Angie Drobnic Holan• April 1, 2014

The High Five: Our most-clicked items for September

By Dave Umhoefer• October 3, 2013

Mailbag: Rick Scott, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Tampa strip clubs

By Angie Drobnic Holan• January 19, 2012

The Earth has rapidly warmed over the past century. Can politics slow it?

By Daniel Funke• October 28, 2019

PolitiFact Wisconsin's 'High Five' for March 2019

By D.L. Davis• April 3, 2019

The High Five for March: jobs, guns, poverty

By Dave Umhoefer• March 31, 2014

7 things Clinton might mention in her acceptance speech

By Jon Greenberg• July 28, 2016

Texas economy falls from No. 3 to 21 in rankings, probably due to oil slump

By W. Gardner Selby• March 28, 2017

Fact-check: What Republican candidates got right, wrong in first debate on Fox News

By PolitiFact Staff • August 24, 2023

Heat-related deaths are up, and not just because it’s getting hotter

By Phillip Reese• September 11, 2023

Climate change e-mails and Copenhagen

By Catharine Richert• December 12, 2009

Mary Burke, so far

By Tom Kertscher• March 24, 2014

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