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... In May, southern Brazil experienced devastating flooding that killed more than 160 people, displaced 600,000 residents, and drew in the military for a lengthy recovery. It was another harbinger of our age of climate insecurity. But despite likely scientific explanations, recovery was complicated by misinformation attributing the disaster to a global conspiracy involving a U.S. scientific installation in Alaska and chemical spraying from jet aircraft.

The incident illustrates a broader intersection of climate change, misinformation, and security -- as Brigitte Hugh and I highlight in a recent paper. Climate change is bringing unprecedented heat, drought, and other forms of extreme weather, with corresponding disruptions to security. Meanwhile, necessary climate policies, though salutary, pose their own socioeconomic and geopolitical challenges. Intensifying climate impacts, and the policy responses that must accompany them, create openings for bad actors to spread mis- and disinformation, affecting climate policy and undermining security. ...

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