Továrna na lži - Výroba klimatických dezinformací

The vast majority of climate research has long shown that climate change is occurring, leading to increasing warming with potentially catastrophic consequences. These changes, they argue, are caused by human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels. There is a long-standing expert consensus on these issues. Yet there is also a proliferation of information in the public domain that looks elsewhere for the causes of climate change. They claim that it is caused by the sun or cosmic rays, question the results of climate science and accuse science of exaggerating or even falsifying data. These opposing currents sometimes refer to the scientific literature and are sometimes even represented by respected scientists. The lay public finds it difficult to navigate this situation and thus gets the feeling that there are no longer any firm certainties.

This state of affairs is not accidental. It is an elaborate political strategy aimed at protecting the interests of the fossil fuel industry. And it seeks to do this precisely by creating confusion and uncertainty. The Lie Factory unravels these mechanisms and uses concrete examples from the Czech and global context to show how the production of climate disinformation works.

Vojtěch Pecka, a sociologist, graphic designer, occasional editor and curator, studied sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague, and as part of his PhD studies at the Faculty of Social Studies in Brno he focuses on the relationship of the fossil fuel industry to climate change. He has recently reworked this research into a journalistic format and published it on A2larm. In his graphic work, he mainly works on animations for museum exhibitions and expositions. He also currently works as an analyst at the Association for International Affairs.

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