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"Climate misinformation often looks new only because the packaging has changed.
The underlying claims are old.
A graph is attacked again. A wind farm is blamed again. An electric vehicle
fire is presented as if petrol and diesel vehicles have never burned. A
blackout is stripped of weather, transmission, protection systems, market
rules, interconnectors, and operational detail, then blamed on renewables.
The target shifts, the phrasing changes, the local hook is refreshed, but the
structure is familiar.
I was reminded of this recently when Michael Mann noted on LinkedIn that a
German outlet was publishing attacks on the hockey stick again. The oddity is
not that the claim exists. It is that the same class of claim keeps returning
as if there were no research history, no public debate, and no shelves full of
answers.
The hockey stick has been examined scientifically, politically, rhetorically
and legally for decades, yet it remains useful because the attack is not really
about one paleoclimate reconstruction. It is about institutional distrust.
That is the larger pattern. The only circular economy many opponents of climate
action seem to have mastered is the circular economy of bad arguments.
Disinformation recycling takes claims that have lost evidentiary value and puts
them back into rhetorical use. A claim does not have to survive scrutiny. It
only has to create hesitation, distrust, delay, or a socially acceptable reason
to oppose something that is already disliked."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
