TalkTV regularly spouts misinformation about the climate crisis, claiming that “CO2 is not a threat to the planet” and that the science behind it “doesn’t add up to a row of beans”. The rightwing news channel has even said that we are "scaring children about something that is not going to happen", and that net zero is “driven by pseudoscience” and “suicidal”.
But when Stop Funding Heat complained to Ofcom, the regulator did nothing about it – and didn’t even explain why.
This is a blatant failure by Ofcom to do its job, so we’re fighting back.
We’ve already sent Ofcom a complaint letter, and it’s got two weeks to reply – which means we’ve got two weeks to get it to listen to us. We need to put as much pressure on the regulator as possible to make sure it listens.
The time to act is now – tell the regulator to start taking climate misinformation seriously, and stop letting toxic channels like TalkTV off the hook.