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Nearly 87% of interactions came from these posts.

Out of the top 100 posts, 65% of posts with keywords related to the heat wave and/or energy grid challenges came from right-leaning pages.

We identified the 100 Facebook posts with the most interactions that contained keywords related to California’s heat wave and grid challenges. Media Matters found that right-leaning political pages created the most posts about the heat wave over its duration compared to ideologically nonaligned and left-leaning pages and these posts also received the vast majority of likes, comments, and shares.įor this study, Media Matters looked at top political Facebook pages from August 31, 2022, through September 6, 2022. Instead of acknowledging that an energy transition is essential to mitigating extreme heat in the future, that burning fossil fuels is driving climate change in the first place, and that this is placing unprecedented demand on energy grids, right-wing Facebook pages shifted the focus to mocking policies intended to accelerate the switch to renewable energy and cleaner technology such as electric vehicles. Just a few days before the onset of the prolonged heat wave, on August 25, California’s Air Resources Board voted to ban the purchase of new gas-powered cars by 2035 in an effort to promote the adoption of electric vehicles. On Facebook, however, the most popular posts covering the heat wave completely ignored the root of the problem.Ĭalifornia narrowly avoided rolling blackouts, in part due to Flex Alerts that advised residents to avoid engaging in high-energy activities such as charging their electric vehicles during peak energy demand.

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Scientists agree that climate change is a key driver of increasingly extreme heat events in the West. The West Coast is facing an unprecedented September heat wave which, according to The Washington Post, has set hundreds of all-time temperature records, as well as records for the month of September, in addition to putting a major strain on the energy grid.