What is Hot Air?
We identified almost 300 individual actors who regularly post online about climate change – in ways that range from scepticism to outright misinformation – and created a database of their content across TikTok, X, and Youtube, as well as news articles and websites. See how online conversations are making a real-world impact in our case studies, or use the explore tool to see what topics are driving the conversation, explore individual actors and search the database.
Explore the tool
Search by person or topic to see how and where climate scepticism is thriving.
Explore
Long read
As the global climate has shifted, the political and technological climates have shifted too. Pressure on platforms to filter out misinformation has given way to an online ecosystem that favours free speech – sometimes at the expense of leaving falsehoods unchecked and allowing conspiracy theories to become widespread.
ReadCase studies
We identified three main types of climate scepticism, and three examples to show how those conversations transition into real action.
Methodology
A detailed guide to how we created a taxonomy of climate scepticism and misinformation.
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