climate misinformation

If It Isn’t Discussed By Conservative Groups, Does “Climate Change” Still Exist?

A December Fox News story featured a coalition of conservative groups who were boasting about ten regulatory and fiscal “wins” under the Trump administration. The energy industry players insist they have “restored America’s path toward true energy dominance.” Project 2025 states unequivocally that “the aid industry claims that climate change … [continued]

Trump’s Climate Policy Decisions: Fruit Of The Poisonous Tree

“Fruit of the poisonous tree” is a doctrine that extends the exclusionary rule to make evidence inadmissible in court if it was derived from evidence that was illegally obtained. As the metaphor suggests, if the evidential “tree” is tainted, so is its “fruit.” The fruit of the poisonous tree analogy … [continued]

Wildfire Climate Misinformation Is Rampant, And Social Media Platforms Are Promoting It

Devastating consequences of the climate crisis are being submerged by climate misinformation messengers, who are persuaded by a self-serving but very powerful minority to mistrust scientific evidence. In many cases such disbelief emerges from social media affordances, which could actually be tapped as a source for rapid public information dissemination … [continued]