You knew the climate skeptics, here are the climate conspirators. What does the record of COP26 matter to them, since global warming is a lie of the powerful. They feed on sanitary conspiracy and reinterpret the laws of nature on social networks.
Recent example, the tweet of Florian Philippot on the “climatic confinement which will precede the climatic pass”. For the president of the far-right Les Patriotes party, considering asking people to stay at home in the event of excessive air pollution is “the deadly logic of globalism”.
This is the “climate containment”, which will precede the “Climate Pass”. Which will be added to the Health Pass, etc.
➡️ This is the deadly logic of globalism, which we have a duty to radically block! To live free! https://t.co/9XzWeohOWT– Florian Philippot (@f_philippot) November 15, 2021
In 2012, it was Donald Trump who accused the Chinese of having created global warming to make American industry less competitive.
One of the oldest and most widespread conspiracy theories on this subject is that of “chemtrails”, “chemical trails”, which implies that the white traces left in the sky by airplanes contain products poisons placed there with the aim of poisoning populations. Joël Giraud, now secretary of state for rurality but previously a deputy, asked the government a question in 2013 about “chemtrails”.
The popularity of this belief has grown with the increasing number of air links around the world. According to an Ifop poll from 2018, 15% of French people agree with the statement that “some white streaks created by the passage of planes in the sky are composed of chemicals deliberately spread for reasons kept secret”.
“Climate and conspiracy” is the 18th episode of Complorama, with Rudy Reichstadt, director of Conspiracy Watch, and Tristan Mendès France, lecturer and member of the conspiracy observatory, specialist in digital cultures. A podcast to be found on the franceinfo website, the Radio France application and several other platforms such as Apple podcasts, Podcast Addict, Spotify or Deezer.