A recent environmental report confirmed that the misleading information about the climate is turning the crisis into a disaster with a focus on distorting the reputation of solutions, according to the British Guardian newspaper.
The report issued by the ICBI (IBIE), earlier in June, stated that the denial of climate change has evolved into campaigns led by fossil fuel companies and right -wing politicians, to obstruct climate work by publishing false and misleading information.
The reporters said that online leaders are very proud of the information to promote climate lies and delay climate work, especially in light of the targeting of climate leaders with campaigns against them on the Internet.
The misleading information between the promotion of the industry of fossil gas ranges as “low -carbon fuel” and conspiracy theories such as that the forest fires in southern California this year were planned by officials in order to destroy the tunnels of children’s trafficking, or that renewable energy caused the last massive power outage in Spain.
Risk
The report stated that “misleading information undermined the public’s confidence in climate science and other major social institutions. This information integrity crisis exacerbates the climate crisis and its exacerbation.”
The organization’s report is a comprehensive assessment of those who produce misleading information about the climate, how to publish it, its impact, and how to control it.
The researcher participating in the report, Klaus Jensen, stated that the lack of correct information for the public limits their ability to correct choices, asking, “If we do not have the correct information, how will we vote for appropriate issues and politicians, and how will politicians translate clear evidence into necessary measures?”
The United Nations leads an international effort with the framework of the “Global Information Safety Initiative on Climate Change” that the United Kingdom, France, Chile, Morocco and other countries have joined.
Trump and the European right
The Guardian explained that US President Donald Trump strongly contributed to the spread of misleading information about the climate on social networks, especially as he described climate science as “nonsense and a great trick.”
In the European context, the report indicates that the right -wing populist parties “actively contradicts the science of climate,” adding that the media with conservative or right -wing political ideologies give priority to denying climate change and skepticism and conspiracy theories.
Climate control control measures include the development of organizational regulations to improve content management by social media companies, as is the case in the European Union’s digital services law, and obliging fossil fuel companies to provide unified advertisements on their emissions.
Jensen said that some legal issues against misleading information related to climate are already underway. In the long time, the improvement of climate education will enable citizens to determine misleading information, according to his description.