Climate change denialism on YouTube 2018-2023

In 2023, the most common climate change denialism claim on YouTube was that climate science and the climate movement were unreliable, accounting for 34.6 percent of such claims. In 2018, this claim accounted for 22.6 percent of climate change denialism on the platform. Additionally, in 2018, almost half of all climate change denialism reported that global heating was not happening. By 2023, this statement was used 13.8 percent of the time, meaning there had been a change of -34.3 percent in usage of this claim. Climate solutions and advocates are also targets of climate change denialism on YouTube.