Antarctica

Did "cabal leaders" go to Antarctica to surrender to extraterrestrials and the Earth Alliance? No, that's not true: The article provides no verifiable evidence to support its story that terms for surrender are being negotiated. The article also includes fake tweets allegedly foreshadowing the meeting from global financial leaders and high-tech payment experts. The claim appeared in an article (archived…

Did Arctic ice "just" reach its highest point in 20 years in December of 2021? No, that's not true: The article relied on for the claim was seven years out of date at the time the claim was posted. Up-to-date satellite records from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which monitors the ice in the Arctic, show significant declines…

Do two photos of Palm Beach, in New South Wales, Australia, purportedly taken almost a century apart, prove there has been no change in the sea level and that climate change is a hoax? No, that's not true: An overall change in sea level over the course of a century can not be measured by comparing two photos and Australia's…

Did NASA data show that global warming is not causing any polar ice retreat? No, that's not true: The conclusion that there is no polar ice retreat is a false result of "cherry picking" data, according to the scientists who are referenced in the 2015 story. In fact, data from NASA at that time and since revealed polar ice retreat.…

Did composer Vangelis die? And was the news only reported by Uruguayan website Subrayado? Nope, the Greek composer best known for music in the movies Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner, Missing, Antarctica, 1492: Conquest of Paradise and Alexander is perfectly fine and did not pass away, he is not actually dead. A death hoax was published about him by Subrayado…

Notorious hoax website World News Daily Report is at it again. According to their latest article, NASA's operation IceBridge discovered traces of a possible ancient human settlement under 2.3 kilometres of ice on Antarctica. Scientists supposedly used 'Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) lidar technology' meant for 'the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2)' to be launched next year…