Climate deniers sow weather-map heatwave misinfo

Misinformation is being spread over social media on weather maps and the European heatwaves by climate-change deniers. — Photo by dole777 on Unsplash

PARIS: Climate-change deniers on social media have a viral way of spreading scepticism during a heatwave: by publishing weather maps out of context to imply forecasters are exaggerating climate change.

During the two recent heatwaves in Europe, users in various countries and languages misleadingly juxtaposed weather maps, sometimes taken from different media organisations at non-comparable dates.