Fact-check: “The climate changes every hundred years.”
Verdict: False (85% confidence)
Documented definitions and observations indicated that climate change is identified over extended periods typically “decades or longer,” and recorded evidence showed climate can shift on many time scales (including within decades and over tens of thousands of years), not on a fixed 100-year schedule. Documented paleoclimate evidence indicated major natural cycles (e.g., glacial–interglacial) operate on roughly 100,000-year time scales rather than every 100 years. No primary-source evidence was…
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