CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE NOBLE LIE

 Many people would accept that there are times when it is ok to tell a lie, but some issues are so important that a lie is completely unacceptable. In climate change the costs are so high that we must insist on the whole truth. One new way of distorting the truth (AKA lying) is the attempt to claim that extreme weather events have been made a certain percentage worse by climate change. This is called a noble lie because it is in their mind a lie in a noble cause. These are known as climate attribution studies. This is when a particular extreme weather event is studied and then said to have been made much worse by human climate change. This article explains it clearly:

Climate change and the noble lie