According to a report by the Press Association, experts warned that conspiracy groups may push misinformation about the climate crisis in the future.
Extremist said that those who already spread baseless conspiracy theories about vaccines and lockdowns could turn their attention to spreading misinformation about climate policy.
They will frame climate policy as a loss of civil liberties and freedom, according to an analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
Phrases like "green lockdown" and "climate lockdown" are already being used, he continued, which refer to conspiracy theories that groundlessly state environmentalists will order global lockdowns to reduce carbon emissions.
O'Connor said that it was a merging of Covid worlds and climate disinformation worlds.
He said that the climate dialogue, rhetoric, and discussion will be rolled into that kind of civil liberties discussion.
Climate crisis conspiracy theories will have more activity in 2020. Jonathan Bright, an associate professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, told PA that people will be thinking about climate change misinformation.
O'Connor said that Telegram will likely host the evolution of these ideas by conspiracy groups. The analyst said that the counter-narrative would have consequences.
O'Connor told PA that online actions have consequences. The increased threat towards public health officials, politicians, and even frontline staff is related to that idea.
CBS News reported in November that climate change conspiracy theories were spreading quickly on the internet. According to the media outlet, Wasim Khaled, CEO of Blackbird.ai, said that climate- change disinformation trends on social networks borrow from themes that were effective during the coronaviruses crisis.
