{"id":41292,"date":"2018-12-05T07:15:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T12:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41292"},"modified":"2018-12-05T07:15:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T12:15:45","slug":"cop24-climate-science-denial-disinformation-and-fake-news-at-the-un-climate-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41292","title":{"rendered":"COP24: Climate Science Denial, Disinformation and Fake News at the UN Climate Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"page-title\" class=\"page__title title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2018\/12\/05\/cop24-climate-science-denial-disinformation-and-fake-news-un-climate-talks\">COP24: Climate Science Denial, Disinformation and Fake News at the UN Climate Talks<\/a><\/h3>\n<article class=\"node-13342 node node-blog view-mode-full clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/sites\/beta.desmogblog.com\/files\/styles\/full_width_blog_image\/public\/blogimages\/Taylor%20NIPCC_1.png?itok=3NRiijOe\" alt=\"James Taylor of the Heartland Institute at COP24\" width=\"826\" height=\"504\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"new-horizontal-social-bar clearfix\">\n<div class=\"new-horizontal-share-wrapper new-horizontal-email-wrapper clearfix last\">In an age of \u201cfake news\u201d and disinformation, in which climate science deniers have been elected to the head of some of the world\u2019s largest governments, the <span class=\"caps\">UN<\/span> climate talks continue to act as a stage for those who wish to cast doubt on the climate\u00a0crisis.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>And in Katowice, Poland, where the <span class=\"caps\">UN<\/span> climate talks \u2014 known as <span class=\"caps\">COP24<\/span> \u2014 are underway, it was no different. A small group of climate science deniers tried to grab attention by hosting an event on the fringe of the conference, claiming to \u201cpresent the science that debunks <span class=\"caps\">UN<\/span>\u00a0alarmism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But this year, very few were paying\u00a0attention.<\/p>\n<p>Year after year, climate science deniers have attempted to use the climate talks as a platform to undermine the global climate negotiation\u00a0process.<\/p>\n<p>The election of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-46351940\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Donald Trump in the <span class=\"caps\">US<\/span><\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/nov\/15\/brazil-foreign-minister-ernesto-araujo-climate-change-marxist-plot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil<\/a>, two populist\u00a0politicians who denounced climate change as a political plot to stifle economic growth and want to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, may have given these fringe groups some semblance of\u00a0credibility.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Bragg, spokesman for the <span class=\"caps\">NGO<\/span> Corporate Accountability, told DeSmog <span class=\"caps\">UK<\/span> that although climate science deniers\u2019 tactics haven\u2019t changed over the years, \u201cwhat has changed is the hubris with which these deniers trot their junk science out but just because Trump makes these deniers feel\u00a0confident\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>But that doesn&#8217;t mean they actually have cause or that support for them is growing,\u201d he\u00a0added.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the <span class=\"caps\">UN<\/span> conference, climate science denial voices have traditionally been ignored. Both Trump and Bolsonaro\u2019s election were a blow to the <span class=\"caps\">UN<\/span>\u2019s climate negotiations process but those denying the scientific consensus of climate change have not \u2014 at least yet \u2014 managed to crush the momentum behind the Paris\u00a0Agreement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isolated\u00a0Deniers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COP24: Climate Science Denial, Disinformation and Fake News at the UN Climate Talks In an age of \u201cfake news\u201d and disinformation, in which climate science deniers have been elected to the head of some of the world\u2019s largest governments, the UN climate talks continue to act as a stage for those who wish to cast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[23168,141,992,2956,23255,5317,3717,2779,1722,826],"class_list":["post-41292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-chloe-farad","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-change-denial","tag-climate-science","tag-cop24","tag-desmog-blog","tag-disinformation","tag-fake-news","tag-un-climate-talks","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41293,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41292\/revisions\/41293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}