Two nonprofit groups, Accountable.US and the Climate Power Education Fund, recently launched a joint initiative to shine a light on the misinformation spread by the American Petroleum Institute and its member companies, executives, and allies. The campaign, called Polluters Exposed, has already turned up new dirt on Big Oil, finding that API-backed groups were behind an “unusual” letter and op-ed by five school superintendents that falsely claimed federal climate policies would hurt school funding.

"They’re using schools as political pawns." - EXXONKNEWS
https://exxonknews.substack.com/p/theyre-using-schools-as-political

In early 2017, the Texans for Natural Gas website went live to urge voters to “thank a roughneck” and support fracking. Around the same time, the Arctic Energy Center ramped up its advocacy for drilling in Alaskan waters and in a vast Arctic wildlife refuge. The next year, the Main Street Investors Coalition warned that climate activism doesn’t help mom-and-pop investors in the stock market.

All three appeared to be separate efforts to amplify local voices or speak up for regular people.

On closer look, however, the groups had something in common: They were part of a network of corporate influence campaigns designed, staffed and at times run by FTI Consulting, which had been hired by some of the largest oil and gas companies in the world to help them promote fossil fuels.

How FTI Drove Influence Campaigns Nationwide for Big Oil - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/climate/fti-consulting.html

Kampaň proti klimatu — iVysílání — Česká televize
https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/13686398923-kampan-proti-klimatu/22038257116

Fake news on social media about climate change and biodiversity loss is having a worrying impact in the battle to halt the growing environmental threats to the planet, a group of scientists and analysts have warned.

In a report published by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, they say measures needed to create a healthier, more resilient planet – by reducing fossil fuel emissions, overfishing and other threats – will be hard to enforce if they continue to suffer targeted attacks in social media. The international cooperation that is needed to halt global heating and species loss could otherwise be jeopardised, they say.
Climate fight 'is undermined by social media's toxic reports' | Climate change | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/...021/mar/21/climate-fight-is-undermined-by-social-medias-toxic-reports

The far right likes to position itself as the ultimate good, a hero standing up to an evil world. Melodrama is its genre of choice, through which it tells of its fights with environmentalists, feminists, and minorities. Political scientist Cara Daggett explains how this thinking shapes right-wing politics in the US, what environmentalists can do to tackle it, and why the importance of storytelling must not be underestimated in the green transition.

The Melodrama of Climate Change Denial
https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-melodrama-of-climate-change-denial/

Ja nevim, jestli nasbiram dostatek mentalni sily si tuhle bramboracku da. Ale neni tu nekdo s dostatecne pevnym dusevnim zdravim, ktery by to zvladl a podal referat? :)

Duše K - tentokrát o ovlivňování počasí s Radovanem 14.2.2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFHMZkPb7lE

An introduction to the new area of ignorance studies that examines how science produces ignorance—both actively and passively, intentionally and unintentionally.

We may think of science as our foremost producer of knowledge, but for the past decade, science has also been studied as an important source of ignorance. The historian of science Robert Proctor has coined the term agnotology to refer to the study of ignorance, and much of the ignorance studied in this new area is produced by science. Whether an active or passive construct, intended or unintended, this ignorance is, in Proctor's words, “made, maintained, and manipulated” by science. This volume examines forms of scientific ignorance and their consequences.

A dialogue between Proctor and Peter Galison offers historical context, presenting the concerns and motivations of pioneers in the field. Essays by leading historians and philosophers of science examine the active construction of ignorance by biased design and interpretation of experiments and empirical studies, as seen in the “false advertising” by climate change deniers; the “virtuous” construction of ignorance—for example, by curtailing research on race- and gender-related cognitive differences; and ignorance as the unintended by-product of choices made in the research process, when rules, incentives, and methods encourage an emphasis on the beneficial and commercial effects of industrial chemicals, and when certain concepts and even certain groups' interests are inaccessible in a given conceptual framework.

Science and the Production of Ignorance | The MIT Press
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/science-and-production-ignorance