Posts blaming climate policies for the Ukraine war were among misleading narratives spread during the COP27 summit, monitors said.
Climate activists protest outside the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre, during the COP27 climate conference.PARIS - Posts blaming climate policies for the Ukraine war were among misleading narratives spread during the COP27 summit, monitors said, warning that strategies to deny the crisis and delay action are thriving.
The ISD said Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and its impacts were fuelling false climate claims this year. Some British posts linked the issue to a parallel narrative in tabloid media about authorities paying to house immigrants in hotels. "There is huge asymmetry in resources available to scientists versus what is available to the purveyors of disinformation, especially corporate and corporate-funded disinformation," Naomi Oreskes, a professor at Harvard University who has authored leading studies on climate misinformation, told AFP.
"Right-wing media on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as malign actors online, are deploying abusive language towards those involved, calling for punitive measures against them and sometimes endorsing calls for violence."
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