The Guardian flails as legacy media’s climate scaremongering fails
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
“The Guardian” newspaper has clearly followed my advice to
< PANIC HARDER DAMMIT ! >
The Orwellian Disinformation Scaremongering campaign by legacy media and the Climate Panic Cottage Industry is flailing in the public eye.
>>> When people are not allowed to legitimately question or criticize a particular topic, then that topic is obviously *false propaganda*.
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“Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe, report says
False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalized.
There were false claims that renewable energy was to blame for the recent blackout in Spain.
Rampant climate misinformation is turning the crisis into a catastrophe, according to the authors of a new report.
It found climate action was being obstructed and delayed by false and misleading information stemming from fossil fuel companies, rightwing politicians and some nation states.
The report, from the International Panel on the Information Environment (Ipie), systematically reviewed 300 studies.
The researchers found climate denialism has evolved into campaigns focused on discrediting solutions, such as the false claims that renewable energy caused the recent massive blackout in Spain.
…Climate misinformation – the term used by the report for both deliberate and inadvertent falsehoods – is of increasing concern.
Last Thursday, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and climate change, Elisa Morgera, called for misinformation and greenwashing by the fossil fuel industry to be criminalised.
On Saturday, Brazil, host of the upcoming Cop30 climate summit, will rally nations behind a separate UN initiative to crack down on climate misinformation.
“It is a major problem,” said Dr Klaus Jensen, of the University of Copenhagen, who co-led the Ipie review.
“If we don’t have the right information available, how are we going to vote for the right causes and politicians, and how are politicians going to translate the clear evidence into the necessary action? Unfortunately, I think the [bad actors] are still very, very active, and probably have the upper hand now.” …