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Search results for "US has caused 10 trillion worth of climate damage since 1990"

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Fact-checks (24972)

Joe Biden stated on November 14, 2023 in remarks at the White House:
“Last year alone, natural disasters in America caused $178 billion in damages.”
By Louis Jacobson• November 15, 2023
Rush Limbaugh stated on October 05, 2016 in a radio show broadcast:
Says "11 straight years of no major hurricanes striking land" in the United States "bores a hole right through the whole climate change argument."  
By Allison Graves• October 7, 2016
Tammy Baldwin stated on December 10, 2019 in a tweet:
“Over the past two years, climate and weather disaster damage has cost the U.S. over $400 billion.”
By Nusaiba Mizan• February 5, 2020
Wayne Christian stated on January 05, 2021 in a letter:
Says that the Paris Climate Accord will cost the U.S. economy "6.5 million jobs and $3 trillion in economic growth by 2040."
By Brandon Mulder• January 21, 2021
Janet Freedman stated on January 13, 2013 in an interview on 10 News Conference:
Tide gauges measuring sea level in Rhode Island since 1930 have risen "maybe about 10 inches since that time."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• February 8, 2013
Donald Trump stated on September 24, 2016 in a speech in Roanoke, Va.:
Says Hillary Clinton’s energy agenda "will cost the U.S. economy over $5 trillion"
By Linda Qiu• September 27, 2016
Mitt Romney stated on October 27, 2011 in various statements:
On whether humans contribute to global warming
By Louis Jacobson• May 15, 2012
Facebook posts stated on October 28, 2021 in Facebook posts:
A chart shows China and India are leading in per capita carbon dioxide emissions.
By Becca Schimmel• December 2, 2021
Debbie Wasserman Schultz stated on May 13, 2014 in in a question and answer after a speech:
Cap and trade legislation "was originally a Republican idea."
By Amy Sherman• May 23, 2014
Americans for Prosperity Action stated on September 04, 2024 in a Meta ad:
The Inflation Reduction Act, which Rep. Elissa Slotkin supported, “drove inflation higher.”
By Caleb McCullough• September 26, 2024
Marco Rubio stated on April 19, 2015 in an interview on CBS' Face the Nation:
"I can tell you with certainty (cap and trade) would have a devastating impact on our economy."
By Lauren Carroll• April 23, 2015
Vivek Ramaswamy stated on August 23, 2023 in a GOP presidential primary debate in Milwaukee:
“The reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change.”
By Jeff Cercone, Amy Sherman• August 24, 2023
Allen Frances stated on August 25, 2019 in remarks on CNN's "Reliable Sources":
"Trump is as destructive a person in this century as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao were in the last century. He may be responsible for many more million deaths than they were."
By Louis Jacobson• August 26, 2019
Democratic National Committee stated on November 28, 2011 in a Web ad:
Says Mitt Romney has said different things about whether global warming is caused by humans
By Angie Drobnic Holan• November 30, 2011
Instagram posts stated on November 06, 2023 in an Instagram post:
"Acapulco destroyed by yet another directed weather attack!”
By Jeff Cercone• November 9, 2023
Rand Paul stated on November 10, 2015 in a debate:
Says Marco Rubio is proposing a new $1 trillion "welfare program" in tax credits and "$1 trillion in new military spending."  
By Tom Kertscher• November 12, 2015
Val Demings stated on September 23, 2022 in a tweet:
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio "has denied climate change."
By Yacob Reyes• October 11, 2022
Eric Greitens stated on February 08, 2017 in a television interview:
"Over the past 25 years, job growth in right-to-work states has been twice as high as in non-right-to-work states. ... The facts are just so clear that this is going to lead to more jobs and higher pay for the people of Missouri."
By Allison Colburn• April 6, 2017
Barry Smitherman stated on November 17, 2013 in :
"The Earth is not warming."
By W. Gardner Selby• December 13, 2013
Eugene Robinson stated on December 01, 2009 in a Washington Post column:
The "post-Soviet industrial meltdown is responsible for most of the progress in reducing carbon emissions that Europe is able to claim."
By Catharine Richert• December 9, 2009

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By Madison Czopek• February 22, 2022

US versus China: Which nation is doing more to address climate change?

By Tom Kertscher• March 27, 2023

What does extreme weather tell us about climate change?

By Jon Greenberg• August 10, 2021

Fact-checking night one of the 2020 Democratic debates in Detroit

By PolitiFact Staff • July 31, 2019

Fact-checking night one of the 2020 Democratic presidential debates in Detroit

By PolitiFact Staff • July 30, 2019

What do we know about the relationship between climate change and Hurricane Harvey?

By Manuela Tobias• August 31, 2017

How climate change is making wildfires worse

By Sara Swann• June 9, 2023

Fact-check: Trump misleads about ending 7 wars, US economy, renewable energy in UN speech

By Louis Jacobson, Maria Ramirez Uribe• September 23, 2025

Checking hurricane claims by Limbaugh, McCain, Chris Christie and Rick Perry

By W. Gardner Selby• August 24, 2017

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

By PolitiFact Staff • August 24, 2023

Jon Hamm, documents say, hazed, hurt UT student in 1990

By W. Gardner Selby• April 10, 2015

Ron DeSantis dismisses climate change link to stronger hurricanes. Here’s what the science says.

By Samantha Putterman• October 17, 2024

Climate change e-mails and Copenhagen

By Catharine Richert• December 12, 2009

Fact-checking Obama's 2014 State of the Union

By Katie Sanders• January 28, 2014

Fact-checking the first presidential debate

By Linda Qiu• September 27, 2016

Trump Administration Approves California Fire Assistance, One Day After Rejecting It

By Chris Nichols• October 16, 2020

The leading 2020 Democrats’ climate change plans, explained

By Sophie Austin• January 14, 2020

Fact-checking claims in California’s U.S. Senate race

By Chris Nichols• October 18, 2018