TUHO: It is a view shared by a number of far-right MEPs, including Romania’s Cristian Terhes who earlier this year told the European Parliament in a debate on climate change that the world is witnessing “the imposition of a utopian, criminal ideology, which requires us to totally destroy our way of life in the name of madness: zero-carbon emissions.”

Terhes is also an anti-vaxxer and is behind the International Covid Summit, whose opening anthem calls on parents to shield their children from perceived tyrannies. “We’ll be free until the day we die” are among the anthem’s lyrics.

These posts are part of a database set up by Lighthouse Reports and Bellingcat to explore the explosion of QAnon conspiracy myths in Europe across more than 2,000 Telegram channels in nine countries.

Timing, network, vocab
The first three ingredients of this recipe borrow some of the marketing industry strategies: timing, networks, and vocabulary. However, in this case the aim is to spread political views not sell products.

As people’s rage and frustration, fed by conspiracy theories related to Covid and Ukraine, died down, Telegram users following QAnon channels were primed for a new target: climate denialism.

According to Lighthouse analysis, until late 2022 climate mentions were quite limited in the database compared to other topics. The Oxford event took place on 18 February 2023 and posts on climate-related issues warning about a “climate lockdown” or against “15-minute cities” had been spreading since March 2022. They only gained wider popularity around November of the same year when the support by a few key channels in the QAnon world prompted a surge in traffic and attention.

How QAnon pushed climate-denialism into European mainstream
https://euobserver.com/investigations/arfcfcce97

Neco proti? https://medium.seznam.cz/clanek/pavel-silhan-green-deal-je-zrejme-nesmysl-otepluje-planetu-rikaji-vedci-71203?#source=hp&seq_no=3&dop_ab_variant=0&dop_source_zone_name=blogy.sznhp.box&dop_vert_ab=&dop_vert_id=

TUHO: kvalita

#Great reset #conspiracy theory a popirani klimaticke zmeny

ISD has tracked the spread of conspiracy theories regarding the Great Reset from the beginning. After the WEF initiative was launched on 3 June 2020, the first video describing the call-to-action as a “New World Order power grab” was posted four days later on alt-tech video platform Bitchute. The video has since been viewed over 100,000 times. Towards the end of June, an op-ed written by Justin Hawkins of the Heartland Institute, a leading climate change-denying think tank, was published on Fox News, in which he wrote the Great Reset’s “socialist outline is clear: destroy the global capitalist economy and reform the Western world.”

The ‘Great Reset’ - ISD
https://www.isdglobal.org/explainers/the-great-reset/

Kind of related. Proc konspiracni teorie frci an TikToku

Why TikTok Is Becoming A Conspiracy Playground
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X66MGRN364c

TUHO: While most climate scientists agreed that human-caused climate change was a real issue that would require action, a small group argued there was no cause for alarm. The plan was to pay these sceptics to give speeches or write op-eds - about $1,500 (£1,250) per article - and to arrange media tours so they could appear on local TV and radio stations

TUHO:

Though few outside the PR industry might have heard of E Bruce Harrison or the eponymous company he had run since 1973, he had a string of campaigns for some of the US's biggest polluters under his belt.
He had worked for the chemical industry discrediting research on the toxicity of pesticides; for the tobacco industry, and had recently run a campaign against tougher emissions standards for the big car makers. Harrison had built a firm that was considered one of the very best.
Media historian Melissa Aronczyk, who interviewed Harrison before he died in 2021, says he was a strategic linchpin for his clients, ensuring everyone was on the same page.
"He was a master at what he did," she says.

Autoforum a dezinformace o elektromobilech #EV

ANALÝZA: Štve vás elektromobilita? Možná vás překvapí, co vám utvořilo názor - strana 3 - iDNES.cz
https://www.idnes.cz/technet/technika/overovani-informaci-garbage-in-garbage-out-elektromobilita.A240529_152128_tec_technika_nyv/3#space-a

The percentage of organizations not employing PR firms ranged from 0% for the Gas & Oil Sector to a high of 33% for Renewable Energy Sector. Overall, on average, organizations engaged a PR firm 13.4 times over the entire study period. This ranged from a low of an average of 3 PR firms engaged by the Renewable Energy Sector organizations to a high of an average of 23.22 PR firms engaged by Utilities Sector organizations. An analysis of variance showed that the Utilities Sector had a significantly higher frequency of engaging PR firms than any of the other sectors.Footnote7 The high use of PR firms in the Utilities Sector was driven by the exceptional use of PR firms by General Electric and Siemens. These are highly visible corporations, and they clearly make a large investment in hiring PR firms. The public nature of most other utilities did not impact their levels of PR firm hiring in a manner at all comparable to GE and Siemens. Additionally, while the Gas & Oil Sector has an overall higher frequency of PR firm hiring than any of the other sectors in absolute terms, there is no statistically significant difference between the Coal/Steel/Rail Sector, the Gas & Oil Sector, and the Environmental Movement in terms of their PR firm use at the organizational level. Due to the small number of cases, an analysis of the Renewable Energy Sector was not conducted.

The role of public relations firms in climate change politics | Climatic Change
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-021-03244-4

Boze muj

Evropa a globální oteplování — Demagog.cz
https://demagog.cz/diskuze/evropa-a-globalni-oteplovani#video