This July, during a summer of record temperatures in Britain, a curious debate over climate science erupted on Platform X. The deputy leader of the Reform party, Richard Tice, shared a Telegraph article titled: “Heatwaves caused by falling pollution,” the Telegraph reports. He claimed that the cause of higher temperatures was cleaner air, not carbon dioxide, claiming that the public had been deliberately manipulated (a form of so-called “gasligh…
This July, during a summer of record temperatures in Britain, a curious debate over climate science erupted on Platform X. The deputy leader of the Reform party, Richard Tice, shared a Telegraph article titled: “Heatwaves caused by falling pollution,” the Telegraph reports. He claimed that the cause of higher temperatures was cleaner air, not carbon dioxide, claiming that the public had been deliberately manipulated (a form of so-called “gasligh…