The fossil fuel industry and right-wing populists are coordinating misinformation campaigns to obstruct efforts to tackle the climate crisis, according to the co-author of a new report on climate misinformation. Klaus Bruhn Jensen, a professor at the University of Copenhagen, says in recent years climate denialism has evolved into structured campaigns focused on discrediting climate solutions. “It’s a sort of muddying of the waters – strategic scepticism – which attempts to question and de-legitimise solutions long supported by climate science,” he told Swissinfo. Jensen co-led a comprehensive study by the Zurich-based International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE), published in June, which reviewed 300 scientific papers on climate misinformation from the past decade. Fossil fuel companies, right-wing populists, think tanks, and some states have shifted from outright denial to sowing doubt about climate solutions, the panel found. The aim is to erode trust and delay ...
