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The Daily Telegraph has been found to have misled readers about the impact of climate change on Britain’s railways, following a ruling by the UK press’ self-regulating body.
Following a six month back-and-forth with a climate think tank, the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) has now upheld a complaint against the newspaper over an article published in April this year, which claimed there had been a “fall in weather [related] delays” on the rail network.
The story claimed that it “eroded” the Network Rail chief’s warnings over the impact of climate change on the sector.
But in response to a complaint from the non-profit Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit, which tackles misinformation on the climate crisis, Ipso found that the article’s headline and opening sentence were “misleading” and “not supported by the article.”
The report, titled “Fall in weather delays erodes rail chief’s climate warning,” suggested that weather-related train disruption had decreased in recent years, supposedly contradicting warnings from Network Rail’s chief executive about the growing impact of climate change on railway infrastructure.
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