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Facebook posts stated on January 07, 2020 in a Facebook post:
"The Australia bushfires have nothing to do with climate change; it was arson."
By Tom Kertscher• January 10, 2020
BuzzFeed stated on July 14, 2013 in a web site list:
"In Providence, R.I., it's illegal to sell toothpaste and a toothbrush to the same customer on a Sunday."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• July 25, 2013
Mitt Romney stated on October 27, 2011 in various statements:
On whether humans contribute to global warming
By Louis Jacobson• May 15, 2012
Instagram posts stated on August 27, 2022 in an Instagram video:
There’s an unlimited supply of water being generated “deep within the Earth.”
By Andy Nguyen• September 7, 2022
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
Suburban Virginia Republican Coalition stated on April 30, 2022 in a seminar.:
“CO2 is not a pollutant.”
By Warren Fiske• May 12, 2022
Marco Rubio stated on May 11, 2014 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":
Human activity is not "causing these dramatic changes to our climate."
By Julie Kliegman• May 13, 2014
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
Other Space stated on July 14, 2015 in in a Change.org petition:
"By declaring that Pluto was no longer a planet, the (International Astronomical Union) put into place a planetary definition that would have even declassified Earth as a planet if it existed as far from the sun as Pluto does."
By Anna Bruzgulis• July 21, 2015
Barry Smitherman stated on November 17, 2013 in :
"The Earth is not warming."
By W. Gardner Selby• December 13, 2013
Viral image stated on November 07, 2023 in an Instagram post:
“NASA admits space and planets are fake.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• November 8, 2023
Viral image stated on January 11, 2022 in an Instagram post:
Video shows China launching an “artificial sun” into space.
By Ciara O'Rourke• January 13, 2022
Bloggers stated on April 30, 2018 in a blog post:
"Bill Gates Outlines 2018 Plan To Depopulate The Planet."
By Miriam Valverde• May 3, 2018
Bloggers stated on February 04, 2019 in a story:
NASA has discovered a new planet covered with marijuana
By Samantha Putterman• February 8, 2019
George Will stated on May 11, 2014 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":
The incandescent light bulb "has no effect whatever on the planet."     
By Jon Greenberg• May 11, 2014
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 March 08, 2019 in a post on Facebook:
Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "was fired from ‘Hot Dog On A Stick’ in 2008 — for incompetence."  
By Ciara O'Rourke• March 12, 2019
Facebook posts stated on October 03, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says Chris Christie told Donald Trump to interrupt Joe Biden during the debate because “people who overcome stuttering have a harder time maintaining their train of thought when interrupted. Keep interrupting him and he’ll stumble when he tries to speak. This will enforce the ‘senile’ narrative.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• October 7, 2020
Facebook posts stated on February 25, 2023 in a Facebook post:
Photo of electric charging station “powered by diesel generator” is emblematic of the electric vehicle movement.
By Jeff Cercone• February 28, 2023

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