Climate Change Deniers Are Switching Tactics

Climate Change Deniers Are Switching Tactics

Climate misinformation has shifted focus, moving away from denying that climate change is happening, and instead working to cast doubt on proposed solutions.

‘Powerful Actors’ Are Spreading False Information About the Climate Crisis, Making It Harder to Address: Report

Unchecked climate misinformation is turning crisis into catastrophe, according to the International Panel on the Information Environment

The new era of policing green dissent

In 2016, the call to “Stand with Standing Rock” echoed across Turtle Island.  What had begun as a protest against a 1,900-kilometre oil pipeline skirting Standing Rock Sioux territory and potentially threatening the tribe’s primary water source had turned into an epic battle over Indigenous rights, which resonated far and wide. Members of some 300 Indigenous nations travelled to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota for the Indige…

The new lies spreading about climate change

Climate misinformation campaigns have shifted tactics, a comprehensive new analysis shows.

To the Mainstream Media: Quit Lying About Crop Yields, They Are Increasing, Not in Decline

To the Mainstream Media: Quit Lying About Crop Yields, They Are Increasing, Not in Decline By Anthony Watts A number of mainstream media outlets carried stories claiming that climate change threatens crop yields and production, among them The Hill, Yahoo News, CNN, and The Guardian. That claim is refuted by everything botany, agronomy, data on crop yields, and the […]

Targeting Climate’s Number One Villian

More than ever, need to focus on biggest bang-for-buck solutions to climate. Big fossil gas users have the power to hold Oil/gas players accountable for their emissions, as a condition to enter those markets, Europe, and now Japan and Korea have. “Access to Market” is a giant stick that could be wielded against intransigent actors … Continue reading "Targeting Climate’s Number One Villian"