“The left likes to pretend that weather = climate change. But the post ignores the context that increased snowfall and more volatile weather are other effects of the climate change-induced trend of broadly warming temperatures.Įlsewhere, “We The Media,” a Telegram channel that often amplifies disinformation, claimed in a post viewed at least 30,000 times that linking extreme weather to climate change was purely politically motivated. A Facebook Page with more than 32,800 followers called “Climate change is natural” shared an article that claimed “covert” NASA data showed global snowfall had increased over the past four decades. Recent misinformation about the heat wave follows these patterns.

The US National Center for Science Education identified three key arguments used by climate change denialists: firstly, that “climate change is bad science” secondly, that “acceptance of climate change is driven by radical ideological motivations and leads to undesirable social consequences” and thirdly, that “it is only fair to acknowledge a scientific controversy over climate change.”

But people who reject climate science continue to spread false narratives on social media about the crisis. The unprecedented heat wave affecting British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest is the latest example of how climate change is creating extreme weather events, according to scientists.

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