Why are we vulnerable to this topic

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The way the media reports on climate change has even become a very active and dynamic field of academic study covering how often the media covers the change, how this coverage is presented and how it varies from country to country. The Climate Feedback Platform even fact-checks the information disseminated in the media . Since climate affects all elements of our society, it is moving beyond secondary sections and now requires a reorganization of newsrooms, well described by Wolfgang Blau, co-founder of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, as "the greatest reconstruction story since World War II" , and which begins with the training of journalists.


How can we give journalists, and audiences, the vk database means to understand? Is impartiality possible in the face of fake news amplified by social networks? Should we give climate skeptics a voice on TV sets?? Climate is perhaps one of the topics that generates the most false information on social networks, denying the extent of current global warming, its implications or its human origin. Less than a denial (as is the case in the United States), fake news on climate in France often tends to relativize current climate change or to diminish the extent of the changes necessary to address the climate crisis.


Sociologist Gérard Bronner described the " deregulation of the information market " which is characterized by a multiplication of sources of information and consequently by an easier dissemination of fake news, particularly on the state of the climate. Numerous psychological studies show that we are not only all vulnerable to this false information but that it also represents one of the major obstacles to engaging in actions to mitigate climate change. Understanding the purposes for which fake news around the climate is used is therefore essential. Is it simply a protective mechanism to avoid the anxiety of catastrophe and "the uncomfortable contradiction between our behaviors and the climate emergency" , as described by Pierre André, a PhD student in philosophy , in the magazine Le Un devoted to climate, or is it a conscious political agenda that goes against any notion of climate justice? For Nicole de Almeida, "climate skepticism is a bonus for inertia" and benefits those who do not want to change.