Fact-check: “Climate change has increased the rate of shark attacks on swimmers over recent decades.”
Verdict: Misleading (55% confidence)
Climate change is well-documented to be shifting shark distributions poleward and into new coastal areas, which researchers say may increase encounter potential in some regions — but no authoritative source in the evidence record establishes that the actual rate of shark attacks on swimmers has risen over recent decades due to climate change. The International Shark Attack File data shows the per-capita attack rate has stayed roughly flat (0.012 per million in 1950 vs. 0.010 in 2020), 2024 saw…
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