![]() ![]() For the past three years, Blackbird.AI has examined how pervasive digital influence campaigns built on disinformation, conspiracy, and politically polarized rhetoric have effectively come to function as a cyberattack on human perception and intelligence.Climate change disinformation primarily coalesces around dispute of the mainstream scientific consensus that human activities have a critical negative impact on the environment, meaning our world will become increasingly difficult to live in as a result of increased food insecurity, water scarcity, extreme weather conditions, mass displacement and other causal ramifications. The ubiquity of social media and Internet-based communications in recent years-usage of which has dramatically spiked during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic-has allowed increasingly sophisticated forms of malign information operations to permeate the digital platforms we rely on to consume news, interact with others and learn about the world. Media coverage of the IPCC’s August 2021 climate change report (The Guardian) Where does climate change disinformation fit into this? This understanding starts with the international bodies, politicians, scientists, and industry and business leaders with the power to enact and enforce sustainable policies, while also resounding at an individual level to inculcate sustainable local behaviors and put consumer and electoral pressure on power stakeholders to commit to carbon neutral initiatives, products and services. A shared understanding of climate change’s causes, risks and solutions is therefore necessary to sustain the levels of cooperation needed to achieve the universal goal of climate change reversal. If left unchecked, many parts of the world will become increasingly uninhabitable for millions of people across the world in upcoming decades.UN Secretary General António Guterres warned that the time to act to avoid irreversible climate catastrophe is now – but this is contingent only on the international community and local populations working together to halt and mitigate human activities responsible for greenhouse gas emissions. This includes energy and transport and food and agricultural systems, as well as the side-effects from changes in land use and deforestation. ![]() Increasing incidents of extreme and deadly weather such as droughts, flooding and forest fires are described by scientists as the unequivocal result of greenhouse gas emissions largely derived from the burning of fossil fuels across our industries. Human actions are changing the Earth’s climate in unprecedented, devastating, and sometimes permanent ways, according to a recent major report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In recent years, climate change has precipitated record-breaking temperatures contributing to increased wildfires across the US (NBC News) Firefighters work to contain the ongoing Dixie Fire in northern California, July 2021 – the largest non-complex wildfire in the state’s history. ![]()
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