Climate misinformation often looks new only because the packaging has changed. The underlying claims are old.
A graph is attacked again. A wind farm is blamed again. An electric vehicle fire is presented as if petrol and diesel vehicles have never burned. A blackout is stripped of weather, transmission, protection systems, market rules, interconnectors, and operational detail, then blamed on renewables.
The target shifts, the phrasing changes, the local hook is refreshed, but the structure is familiar.
I was reminded of this recently when Michael Mann noted on LinkedIn that a German outlet was publishing attacks on the hockey stick again. The oddity is not that the claim exists. It is that the same class of claim keeps returning as if there were no research history, no public debate, and no shelves full of answers.
The hockey stick has been examined scientifically, politically, rhetorically and legally for decades, yet it remains useful because the attack is not really about one paleoclimate reconstruction. It is about institutional distrust.
