Shweta Narayan, Mark Conway, Linda Rudolph, Jeni Miller, Natalia Linou, Jayalakshmi Shreedhar
As the Los Angeles fires scorched communities and choked the skies, the destructive forces of climate-driven disasters became hard to deny. Yet, amidst the devastation—scorched neighbourhoods, overwhelmed hospitals,1 toxic air,2 and mounting public health risks—a torrent of disinformation3 spread, deflecting attention from the root cause of these escalating events. Fossil fuel interests seem to have been actively spreading doubt about the role their industries play in intensifying extreme weather4 by pushing misleading narratives and downplaying the link between fossil fuel emissions and climate change.