🧩 BND Motif Index · M222
Climate change costs
Climate change is running up a bill, in disasters and damage, and someone has to pay it.
- 5claims filed under it
- 1center show it came up on
- 4claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Climate change disaster 🧩 Corporate accountability
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ center 1
🐘 right 0
🦗 none of our right shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Supreme Court hears climate change case against oil companies 2026-10-04 to 2026-10-08
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “Climate change is responsible for two-thirds of the 50,000 heat-related deaths in European cities this summer.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-07 “The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether state and local governments can hold major oil companies financially liable for climate change damages.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-06 “The Supreme Court is considering whether local governments can sue oil companies for climate change damages.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-05 “The Supreme Court is set to hear a major climate case involving ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy, with Boulder, Colorado, suing them for environmental damage and related costs.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-05 “Climate change is a global issue that should be handled by the federal government rather than state courts.”
🎙️ Up First (NPR)
M222 · first seen 2026-10-05 · last 2026-10-07 · what this is · how the index works