Excellent Database, well done DeSmog. Thank you! In DeSmog’s Climate Disinformation Database, you can browse our extensive research on the individuals and organizations that have helped to delay and distract the public and our elected leaders from taking needed action to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and fight global warming. . Database Source .
Climate Deniers and the Language of Climate Obstruction
From narratives about fossil fuels as a solution to climate advocates as out of touch with reality, here’s how the fossil fuel industry and its allies are weaponizing words to delay climate action. . On a recent episode of the Fox Business show “Mornings with Maria,” American Petroleum Institute CEO and President, Mike Sommers, said... Continue Reading →
As the latest IPCC report faults disinformation for delaying climate action, a newly released scorecard finds that the major social media platforms’ plans to handle climate disinformation remain murky. The first page of Menlo Park, California’s 2030 Climate Action Plan shows a map predicting which parts of the city will be underwater by the end... Continue Reading →
Social Media Giants Get a Failing Grade on Climate Disinformation
There are clear connections between the fossil fuel industries and the politicians who are both stalling action on climate change and diminishing democracy – and it’s a dangerous shift, argues an international studies professor in her new book. By Eve Darian-Smith, University of California, Irvine Around the world, many countries are becoming less democratic. This... Continue Reading →
Rising Authoritarianism and Worsening Climate Change Share a Fossil-fueled Secret
The ties between anti-green politicians, climate denial groups and the backers of “hard” Brexit are extensive. (SEE CHART AT SITE) “Go for gas with all the vigour of a national war effort…” That was the take from Steve Baker on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Baker, the leading light of the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group... Continue Reading →
Mapped: How the Net Zero Backlash is Tied to Climate Denial – and Brexit
IPCC Report Calls Out ‘Vested Interests’ Delaying Climate Action
The report also pointed the finger at journalists for providing false balance to “contrarian” voices in their coverage of the issue. The UN’s expert climate science organization has criticised the “vested interests” obstructing efforts to cut emissions for the first time this week. The world’s leading climate scientists warned of the “irreversible” impacts of global... Continue Reading →
The ties between anti-green politicians, climate denial groups and the backers of “hard” Brexit are extensive. “Go for gas with all the vigour of a national war effort…” That was the take from Steve Baker on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Baker, the leading light of the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), has seized on... Continue Reading →
Mapped: How the Net Zero Backlash is Tied to Climate Denial – and Brexit
The oil giant’s massive plan to drill in Guyana’s waters comes as the UN Secretary General warns of fossil fuels as a “blight on investment portfolios.” “Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released part of its latest... Continue Reading →
ExxonMobil Announces $10 Billion Oil Investment the Same Day IPCC Signals End for Fossil Fuels
Campaigners are pushing for sharper definitions to help tech firms weed out false or misleading information. The EU has become the first ever policymaking body to officially acknowledge the urgency of defining and tackling climate disinformation. Lawmakers at the EU Parliament overwhelmingly backed a report last week calling on the EU to “prepare better to... Continue Reading →
EU Parliament Backs ‘Urgent’ Calls to Address Climate Disinformation
‘Don’t Look Up’: Hollywood’s Primer on Climate Denial Illustrates 5 Myths That Fuel Rejection of Science
Two research psychologists analyze the all-too-familiar aspects of climate science denial found in the blockbuster new film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. By Gale Sinatra, University of Southern California and Barbara K. Hofer, Middlebury. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Every disaster movie seems... Continue Reading →
As oil majors exit the North Sea, the region’s new players bring a track record of lobbying against climate policy, polluting the environment, and committing alleged labour violations. Companies with histories of environmental abuses and alleged labour violations, backed by private equity and with ties to foreign governments, stand to profit from North Sea oil... Continue Reading →
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