The most shared false claims around the globe, curated by Blasting News’s editorial team

Photo: Researchers don't claim Earth was 2 degrees Celsius warmer 55,000 years ago (Image source: Andreas/Flickr)

Unique contribution: We are monitoring social media, national and international media, and fact-checking websites in order to share the fake news making the rounds this week. Don't be fooled! Edited by Angelo Paura.

The world of news is complex – and false stories and images are often widely shared on social media. Blasting News’s editorial team spots the most popular hoaxes and misleading information every week to help you discern truth from falsehood. Here are some of the most shared false claims of this week, of which none are legit.

USA

Researchers don't claim Earth was 2 degrees Celsius warmer 55,000 years ago

False claim: Social media users in the United States have shared a video in which American investor and former oil executive Dan Peña claims that during a trip to Antarctica, scientists drilling ice core samples to determine former Earth temperatures told him that 55,000 years ago the world was 2 degrees Celsius warmer than it is today.

Truth:

• According to data published in 2016 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the temperature in one studied region of Antarctica was -35.6 C 55,000 years ago, while in 2006 the average temperature in that same area was -28.7 C – about 6.9 C warmer.

• Research conducted in the Arctic, the Earth's...

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