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As world leaders met at the COP26 summit to debate how to tackle climate change, misleading claims and falsehoods about the climate spiralled on social media.
Feb 14, 2024 · A common refrain among deniers was that climate change is a conspiracy theory or hoax (59% of the total) and a shadowy attempt to dupe the public into bearing the costs of decarbonization, while...
Nov 1, 2023 · Conspiracy-filled narratives rejecting the existence and the anthropogenic causes of climate change are widely observed (Tyagi & Carley, 2021). In a recent international survey, on average, about 17% of respondents considered the conspiracy theory that climate change is a hoax to be true or possibly true (YouGov, 2021).
Nov 30, 2009 · Climate contrarians argue that variation in solar energy reaching the planet is behind global warming. But human influence has a measurably stronger effect on climate. Credit: NASA
Apr 25, 2022 · A dozen scientists, politicians, and campaigners say they have been tricked into participating in online events promoting climate-change denial. The events were organised by the Creative...
Nov 16, 2023 · John F. Clauser shared the Nobel Prize in physics last year before declaring Tuesday that “there is no climate crisis” — a claim that contradicts the overwhelming scientific consensus.
Sarah Ott spent years believing climate change was a hoax, influenced by friends at church in the US south and a popular right-wing radio host. Here she shares her journey from being a...