Experts said the tactics and tenor of climate denial had evolved.
For decades, the oil and gas industry spent billions of dollars waging a coordinated and highly technical campaign to influence public opinion against climate science, and then climate action.
Recently, conspiracy theorists and extremists have operated in a more decentralized way, generating revenue through deceptive clickbait about global warming.
Natural disasters and extreme weather events would still occur without it, albeit on a smaller scale, for example.
That helps fuel many false narratives, said Susannah Crockford, an environmental anthropologist at the University of Exeter in England.
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