Over the weekend it was snowy in Munich, and at the airport, an unfueled, parked aircraft froze over. Someone posted the footage of it online. Because of the weight of the snow in the tail, the plane tipped upwards, and as a result, it appeared as though the plane was flash-frozen on the runway just as its front […]
For at least the last seven years, the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) has tried to shed its image as a disinfo-spreading fossil fuel lobby shop by another name (utility industry trade group), but all that’s probably for naught given its new CEO. By Climate Denier Roundup That’s not to say that EEI has been particularly successful at greenwashing the industry lately anyway. […]
RealClearEnergy has blessed us with countless examples of disinformation, but recently it seems they’ve given up the ghost of being legitimate media, and are just more or less transparently serving up advertisements in the form of op-eds. In other words, they’re using a version of one of the fossil fuel industry’s favorite disinformation techniques: the “op-ad.” By […]
The state of California on Friday filed suit against ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, and Chevron, accusing the five oil and gas giants of a decadeslong campaign to mislead the public about the threat fossil fuels pose to the climate. By Jake Johnson Common Dreams The lawsuit makes California the largest economy on the planet to take […]
The United Arab Emirates’ efforts to bolster its reputation ahead of the annual UN climate negotiations it’s hosting at COP28 in December haven’t gone particularly well this year. They’ve been playing the long game, Cartie Werthman uncovered for DeSmog this week,as lobbying disclosures document how the head of the UAE’s national oil company, Sultan Ahmed “Al […]
The Breakthrough Institute (BTI) is not the sort of organization we usually cover here, because the folks there are not exactly deniers … but they have long seemed pretty intent on generating fodder for deniers to attack climate advocates. Ever since they (rightfully) booted UFOlogist co-founder Michael Shellenberger, BTI has been trying to rehabilitate its image, moving away from being a reflexively contrarian […]
Should schools teach science? Should journalists report on it? Not according to a pair of op-eds published last week, both gasping and clutching pearls at the idea of people becoming better informed about an issue of global consequence. By Climate Denier Roundup On Thursday, The Daily Caller ran Larry Behrens’ op-ed headlined, “Inside Climate Alarmists’ […]
For years now, people have been pointing out that PragerU is turning funding from fracking billionaires into Christofascist propaganda and climate disinformation on social media. For years now, Facebook has been waffling on the problem, pretending to act but not really doing much because it’s helmed by Republican election-stealing climate denier Joel Kaplan. By Climate Denier Roundup And for years now, researchers […]
Why would a specific demographic of people overwhelmingly believe something that’s false? There are many possible reasons, but a big one is that billions of dollars have been spent to cultivate the particular false view that climate change isn’t a problem. By Climate Denier Roundup For example, the Washington Post’s coverage of recent polling from WaPo and […]
Between July’s record-breaking heat around the world, to the devastating wildfires in Canada and Hawai’i, to Hilary dropping years’ worth of rain in a day in California, extreme weather is making it increasingly difficult for deniers to act like nothing is happening. By Climate Denier Roundup As a result, we’re likely going to see a bit of a shift in rhetoric as […]
The Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) opinion page, the standard-bearer of elite conservative ideology, has never been particularly honest in its coverage of climate change, but now it is seemingly tilting ever further toward the kind of “climate lockdown” nonsense more frequently found in the fevered rantings of social media stooges than the esteemed pages of […]
Is the Great Reset a bunch of boring bloviating or a sinister conspiracy to create an authoritarian global government in the name of COVID and climate change? Are 15-minute cities a nice way of allowing people to walk to essential locations without needing to drive, or are they a plot to control the public and lock us into tiny […]
CHINA! Did that get your attention? You may have noticed that it’s hard these days to have a conversation on climate in Congress without repeated mentions of China. Specifically, something along the lines of, China isn’t doing anything, so why should we? By Climate Denier Roundup Well, beyond that being false (China leads the world in […]
As scorching heat grips large swaths of the Earth, a lot of people are trying to put the extreme temperatures into context and asking: When was it ever this hot before? By Darrell Kaufman, Northern Arizona University The Conversation Globally, 2023 has seen some of the hottest days in modern measurements, but what about farther […]
Everyone knows smoking causes cancer and that the tobacco industry lied about it for decades. When it finally got caught and was held accountable, some of the people and organizations the industry funded to protect its profits from regulations turned to the fossil fuel industry and continued plying their trade. Some twenty-odd years later, ExxonMobil and other oil companies are […]