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This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls – including new polling on oil and gas companies’ price gouging; clean energy investment as part of potential new economic legislation in Washington; the links between climate change and public health, pollution, and extreme weather; and Americans’ emotional responses to climate change.
The world can be a dangerous place, especially when you’re trying to solve a climate crisis. Disinformation – from the fossil fuel industry, conspiracy theorists, or their partisan accomplices – pollutes the discourse and draws attention away from actual climate solutions. Unfortunately, we’re now all responsible for pushing back against lies, dirty tricks, and bad-faith arguments in order to protect our audiences.
Building off of our March webinar on Fighting Digital Climate Disinformation, we want to arm advocates with what they’ll need to fight disinformation in their work, whether that looks like organizing volunteers on social media to amplify inoculation messages, debunking misleading information in frontline communities, or building a dedicated program to conduct anti-disinformation research. Participants will leave this webinar equipped with the knowledge and instructions to protect their organization and their base.
This article discusses seven key sources of opposition to renewable projects and recommendations for a path forward.
Accountability, gas, and electric vehicles were the climate-related issues that gained most social media traction in April and May 2022. These short reports from 4 regions of the US (Midwest, Southeast, Northeast, West) show some top-performing social media posts per category from April-May. The reports also describe how three issue areas did not get as much traction as expected: transportation, offshore wind, and renewables. These trends were true across all 4 regions. These reports conclude with a way to “put it all together” when constructing social media messaging, including these sample messages: “Jobs: clean energy jobs are real,” “Health: clean energy is safe; fossil fuels threaten your health,” “Action: climate policies are an investment worth making now,” “Fairness: climate change hurts the most vulnerable the hardest,” “Impacts: climate change is directly impacting you,” and “Lies: fossil fuel interests are lying to you; they want to protect their profits—not you.”