Climate misinformation thrives online in 2022

PARIS: False information about climate change flourished online over the past year, researchers say, with denialist social media posts and conspiracy theories surging after U.S. environmental reforms and Elon Musk's Twitter takeover.

What really surprised us this year was to see a resurgence in language that was reminiscent of the 1980s: Phrases like '' climate hoax and '' climate scam that denies the phenomenon of climate change, said Jennie King, head of civic action at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London-based digital research group.

Climate Action Against Disinformation CAAD a coalition of campaigners said that carbon dioxide does not cause climate change or that global warming is not caused by human activity.

Let me expose what the climate scam is about, read one of the most-shared tweets, cited in another survey by the US non-profit Advance Democracy, Inc. ADI It is a wealth transfer from you to the global elite.