Did you hear the one about the space lasers starting forest fires? Fringe conspiracy theories like this still swirl in certain parts of the internet. But some climate change disinformation is harder to spot—it’s subtle, sophisticated and circulated by trusted sources.
Executive editor Vernon Loeb sits down with Washington bureau chief Marianne Lavelle and ICN’s chief science writer Bob Berwyn to break down the facts and fiction in climate discourse today.
They start with a report recently issued by the U.S. Department of Energy—a document commissioned to help set the stage for getting rid of federal regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.
Watch as Marianne and Bob explain what mainstream climate scientists think of this report, what climate change disinformation has in common with Big Tobacco, whether climate skepticism is a uniquely American phenomenon, and much more.
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