India, March 27 -- The United Kingdom's broadcasting regulator Ofcom will investigate complaints of climate change denial on television and radio for the first time since 2017.

Ofcom received more than 15,000 emails complaining about the TalkTV channel broadcasting fake climate news. Reversing its stand not to investigate, Ofcom announced two formal investigations into TalkTV for broadcasting climate misinformation.

When Stop Funding Hate complained to the media regulator about TalkTV's claims that "CO2 is not a threat to the planet" and that plans to tackle climate change are "driven by pseudoscience", Ofcom decided not to investigate.

Ofcom said that "after careful assessment, we concluded that the programmes did not raise potentiall...