PolitiFact | Weather

stated on February 10, 2023 in an Instagram post

“Humans are not causing climate change.” Magnetic pole shifting “is causing havoc worldwide in weather, climate, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc.”

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stated on November 13, 2022 in a video

Climate change is “dictated by solar activity and the moon” and has “nothing to do with mankind.”

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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.”

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stated on October 1, 2022 in Instagram post

COVID was "so bad one year, they just forgot to give us a hurricane? What’s really going on here.”

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stated on September 30, 2022 in a post

"Florida schools (were) still open during the start of the hurricane."

Rick Scott

stated on October 2, 2022 in a television interview

Kamala Harris said about Hurricane Ian that “if you have a different skin color, you're going to get relief faster.”

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stated on September 29, 2022 in a post

Hurricane Ian was orchestrated as part of a pandemic-related conspiracy to devastate Floridians.

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stated on September 28, 2022 in a tweet

Sen. Marco Rubio and U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis “voted against aid for Hurricane Sandy.”

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stated on September 28, 2022 in a video

"Walrus seen on Florida streets after Hurricane Ian hits land."

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stated on September 27, 2022 in a post

“All weather is artificially controlled.”

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stated on September 27, 2022 in a Facebook post

As Hurricane Ian approached, President Joe Biden said, “a vital part of preparing for hurricane season is to get vaccinated now.”

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stated on September 28, 2022 in an Instagram post

A news anchor warned that if Hurricane Ian “moves 20 miles to the west … you and everyone you know are dead.”

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stated on July 29, 2022 in a Facebook post

"The Sun is out of place, the Moon is out of place and the stars are out of place. The compasses are off" because of a shift in the Earth’s poles.

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stated on July 22, 2022 in a Facebook post

Germany weather maps show media exaggerating effects of climate change.

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stated on June 16, 2022 in a Facebook post

Thousands of cattle that recently died in Kansas weren’t killed by the heat.

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stated on February 2, 2022 in a Facebook post

A photo shows a crash in Eminence, Indiana.

Tammy Baldwin

stated on November 6, 2021 in Panel discussion

“Within two years, there were two 500-year (storm) events” in Wisconsin.

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stated on September 14, 2021 in a Facebook post

“Ida was the strongest hurricane to ever strike anywhere in the United States.”

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stated on September 8, 2021 in a Facebook post

"Florida has had 119 hurricanes since 1850,” yet experts are saying “the last one was due to climate change."

Sean Casten

stated on August 23, 2021 in remarks at a press conference

Says the 1995 Chicago heat wave was “the largest single-day, non-war fatality in the United States” prior to 9/11, and “we are now expecting temperatures that hot in Chicago every summer.”

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