UN Calls for “Climate Misinformation” to be Criminalised - Eric Worrall

Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe, report says

The researchers found climate denialism has evolved into campaigns focused on discrediting solutions, such as the false claims that renewable energy caused the recent massive blackout in Spain.

• Climate misinformation – the term used by the report for both deliberate and inadvertent falsehoods – is of increasing concern. 
• Last Thursday, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and climate change, Elisa Morgera, called for misinformation and greenwashing by the fossil fuel industry to be criminalised...