{"id":208446,"date":"2022-07-14T10:29:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T08:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=208446"},"modified":"2022-07-14T10:29:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T08:29:30","slug":"climate-disinformation-everywhere-winning-against-alarmism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=208446","title":{"rendered":"Climate \u2018Disinformation\u2019 Everywhere! (Winning against alarmism)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Robert Bradley Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThematically, the [denier and skeptic] messaging we observed usually presented the summit as one (or more) of the following: pointless, a failure, hypocritical, harmful to the economy, the product of an \u2018eco-fascist\u2019 agenda orchestrated by climate activists and elites.\u201d<\/p>

\u2013 \u201cDeny, Deceive, Delay: Documenting and Responding to Climate Disinformation at DOP 26 and Beyond<\/a>: p. 78.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

At some point, the climate alarmists are going to have to wonder if the universe of \u201cclimate denial\u201d and \u201cclimate skepticism\u201d is growing so large that the real outliers are themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider that Anthony Watts\u2019s WUWT<\/a> is the world\u2019s leading climate website, for starters. At this site, hundreds of climate followers, many with advanced degrees and expertise otherwise, are providing timely, important peer review missing from even the august climate journals. (Ditto for Judith Curry\u2019s influential site, Climate Etc<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a very welcome state of affairs, given the politicization of climate science. Remember these infamous words of Phil Jones<\/a>, Director of the Climatic Research Center, back in 2004: \u201c\u201cI can\u2019t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow, even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Much effort has been going into tracking, isolating, and marginalizing the deniers or skeptics of climate alarm. One major study with academic veneer was released on the eve of COP26, \u201cDeny, Deceive, Delay: Documenting and Responding to Climate Disinformation at COP26 and Beyond<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study collected data from \u201c300+ [mis- or disinformation] climate-focused actors\u201d (p. 108). The voluminous count-me-in DeSmog Climate Disinformation Database<\/a> was one starting point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report states:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is clear that climate sceptic pages actively and explicitly attacked efforts to curb climate change. Through a qualitative analysis of the 50 highest performing climate posts in this group, we found that 35 came from GB News Online, 10 from Spiked Online, 3 from Breitbart London, one from Net Zero Watch and one from Bjorn Lomborg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s a lot of targets\u2013and are you sure there are not a lot more?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thematically, the messaging we observed usually presented the summit as one (or more) of the following:
\u25cf pointless
\u25cf a failure
\u25cf hypocritical
\u25cf harmful to the economy
\u25cf the product of an \u2018eco-fascist\u2019 agenda orchestrated by climate activists and elites<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five-for-five here<\/strong>. Another category should be added:<\/p>\n\n\n\n