#climatebunk — Public Fediverse posts
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We collaborate with our collegial nonprofit Gigafact to create Fact Briefs on matters of #ClimateChange and #ClimateScience. Gigafact's specific mission is to help journalists supply condensed, easy-to-apply #debunkings of common (and usually intentionally fostered) misunderstandings of how Earth's climate functions, and how we're changing that.
But we all run into #ClimateBunk, and these treatments are a handy place to point folks to better information.
Recent releases:
* Has Arctic sea ice recovered?
* Is global warming actually happening?
* Are surface temperature records reliable?
* Is the greenhouse effect still debated among climate scientists?These are all settled questions, many of which Skeptical Science has addressed more than a decade ago-- but Gigafact chooses topics based on fresh information and although it may beggar belief they're still "current" in the public mind.
"Collect them all" at the link! Join our mailing list if you want to be kept up to date (we _never_ share email addresses).
https://skepticalscience.com/search.php?Search=fact+brief+gigafact&x=0&y=0
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We collaborate with our collegial nonprofit Gigafact to create Fact Briefs on matters of #ClimateChange and #ClimateScience. Gigafact's specific mission is to help journalists supply condensed, easy-to-apply #debunkings of common (and usually intentionally fostered) misunderstandings of how Earth's climate functions, and how we're changing that.
But we all run into #ClimateBunk, and these treatments are a handy place to point folks to better information.
Recent releases:
* Has Arctic sea ice recovered?
* Is global warming actually happening?
* Are surface temperature records reliable?
* Is the greenhouse effect still debated among climate scientists?These are all settled questions, many of which Skeptical Science has addressed more than a decade ago-- but Gigafact chooses topics based on fresh information and although it may beggar belief they're still "current" in the public mind.
"Collect them all" at the link! Join our mailing list if you want to be kept up to date (we _never_ share email addresses).
https://skepticalscience.com/search.php?Search=fact+brief+gigafact&x=0&y=0
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We collaborate with our collegial nonprofit Gigafact to create Fact Briefs on matters of #ClimateChange and #ClimateScience. Gigafact's specific mission is to help journalists supply condensed, easy-to-apply #debunkings of common (and usually intentionally fostered) misunderstandings of how Earth's climate functions, and how we're changing that.
But we all run into #ClimateBunk, and these treatments are a handy place to point folks to better information.
Recent releases:
* Has Arctic sea ice recovered?
* Is global warming actually happening?
* Are surface temperature records reliable?
* Is the greenhouse effect still debated among climate scientists?These are all settled questions, many of which Skeptical Science has addressed more than a decade ago-- but Gigafact chooses topics based on fresh information and although it may beggar belief they're still "current" in the public mind.
"Collect them all" at the link! Join our mailing list if you want to be kept up to date (we _never_ share email addresses).
https://skepticalscience.com/search.php?Search=fact+brief+gigafact&x=0&y=0
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We collaborate with our collegial nonprofit Gigafact to create Fact Briefs on matters of #ClimateChange and #ClimateScience. Gigafact's specific mission is to help journalists supply condensed, easy-to-apply #debunkings of common (and usually intentionally fostered) misunderstandings of how Earth's climate functions, and how we're changing that.
But we all run into #ClimateBunk, and these treatments are a handy place to point folks to better information.
Recent releases:
* Has Arctic sea ice recovered?
* Is global warming actually happening?
* Are surface temperature records reliable?
* Is the greenhouse effect still debated among climate scientists?These are all settled questions, many of which Skeptical Science has addressed more than a decade ago-- but Gigafact chooses topics based on fresh information and although it may beggar belief they're still "current" in the public mind.
"Collect them all" at the link! Join our mailing list if you want to be kept up to date (we _never_ share email addresses).
https://skepticalscience.com/search.php?Search=fact+brief+gigafact&x=0&y=0
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We collaborate with our collegial nonprofit Gigafact to create Fact Briefs on matters of #ClimateChange and #ClimateScience. Gigafact's specific mission is to help journalists supply condensed, easy-to-apply #debunkings of common (and usually intentionally fostered) misunderstandings of how Earth's climate functions, and how we're changing that.
But we all run into #ClimateBunk, and these treatments are a handy place to point folks to better information.
Recent releases:
* Has Arctic sea ice recovered?
* Is global warming actually happening?
* Are surface temperature records reliable?
* Is the greenhouse effect still debated among climate scientists?These are all settled questions, many of which Skeptical Science has addressed more than a decade ago-- but Gigafact chooses topics based on fresh information and although it may beggar belief they're still "current" in the public mind.
"Collect them all" at the link! Join our mailing list if you want to be kept up to date (we _never_ share email addresses).
https://skepticalscience.com/search.php?Search=fact+brief+gigafact&x=0&y=0
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Continuing our collaboration with GigaFact, here's a new Fact Brief: "Is the greenhouse effect still debated among climate scientists?"
Given that social networks produce a distillation effect, it may be hard to believe such a fact check is even necessary at this juncture in our unfolding climate blunder; we may not realize that while those in our own circles are up to speed, other communities may be in a state of harmful confusion-- victims of synthetic ignorance.
GigaFact selects and prioritizes topics for treatment based on surveillance and input from users needing assistance. Hence while it may beggar belief, this explanation is something newsrooms and others encountering #ClimateBunk actually do require.
So here's an explanation, compressed for easy deployment.
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Our volunteer staffer Bärbel Winkler summarizes our positive experiences with 8 collaborations, engagements with other organizations to better help the general public deal with #ScienceMisinformation and #ClimateBunk.
Collaboration's a natural path; each organization we work with is itself a result of collaboration, organization.
Powerful multiplication.
Our substantial mutually improved success suggests more methodical collaboration beyond organizational "borders."
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"Stronger together!"
Having just launched our collaboration with the #SabinCenterForClimateChangeLaw, we continue our work with #Gigafact.
"Are most glaciers growing?" Obviously not, but how is the average person to know, in an information environment crowded by fossil fuel funded #ClimateBunk?
One way is by providing news providers and consumers with concise, factual #ClimateMythDebunkings.
Here's the latest ready-to-serve treatment for newsrooms.
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"Stronger together!"
Having just launched our collaboration with the #SabinCenterForClimateChangeLaw, we continue our work with #Gigafact.
"Are most glaciers growing?" Obviously not, but how is the average person to know, in an information environment crowded by fossil fuel funded #ClimateBunk?
One way is by providing news providers and consumers with concise, factual #ClimateMythDebunkings.
Here's the latest ready-to-serve treatment for newsrooms.
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"Stronger together!"
Having just launched our collaboration with the #SabinCenterForClimateChangeLaw, we continue our work with #Gigafact.
"Are most glaciers growing?" Obviously not, but how is the average person to know, in an information environment crowded by fossil fuel funded #ClimateBunk?
One way is by providing news providers and consumers with concise, factual #ClimateMythDebunkings.
Here's the latest ready-to-serve treatment for newsrooms.
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"Stronger together!"
Having just launched our collaboration with the #SabinCenterForClimateChangeLaw, we continue our work with #Gigafact.
"Are most glaciers growing?" Obviously not, but how is the average person to know, in an information environment crowded by fossil fuel funded #ClimateBunk?
One way is by providing news providers and consumers with concise, factual #ClimateMythDebunkings.
Here's the latest ready-to-serve treatment for newsrooms.
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"Stronger together!"
Having just launched our collaboration with the #SabinCenterForClimateChangeLaw, we continue our work with #Gigafact.
"Are most glaciers growing?" Obviously not, but how is the average person to know, in an information environment crowded by fossil fuel funded #ClimateBunk?
One way is by providing news providers and consumers with concise, factual #ClimateMythDebunkings.
Here's the latest ready-to-serve treatment for newsrooms.
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"Is more CO2 a good thing because it’s plant food?"
That's the subject of our latest collaboration with Gigafact, an organization specialized to provide starved newsrooms with ready-to-insert, low-effort "FactBriefs."
The greatest long-running hits in #ClimateBunk tend to have some nugget of truth in the middle-- slathered in deception. "CO2 is plant food" is arguably the "Stairway to Heaven" of overplayed #ClimateMisinformation even though always played out of tune.
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Old enough that this falls into the expanding bucket of "it depends."
I'm pretty good at getting egg on my face without mechanical help, so for now it's "no."
At @SkepticalScience we're exploring how to exploit the tech for somewhat leveling the vast asymmetry of effort needed for addressing #ClimateBunk but just a small fraction of faceplant in output forecloses this-- for now. For mission critical at this juncture, nuh-uh.
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Our #ClimateMythDebunking access statistics are a proxy for popularity of particular items of #ClimateBunk.
Per these stats the "MWP" or "Medieval Warming Period" has done a steady fair-to-middling trade in #ClimateConfusion, for many years.
Here's a new 160-word treatment, created in collaboration with #GigaFact and designed for quick-and-easy use by understaffed newsrooms.
This one's quite simple, a bit easier to fit into few words-- yet the myth still has legs.
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Our #ClimateMythDebunking access statistics are a proxy for popularity of particular items of #ClimateBunk.
Per these stats the "MWP" or "Medieval Warming Period" has done a steady fair-to-middling trade in #ClimateConfusion, for many years.
Here's a new 160-word treatment, created in collaboration with #GigaFact and designed for quick-and-easy use by understaffed newsrooms.
This one's quite simple, a bit easier to fit into few words-- yet the myth still has legs.
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Our #ClimateMythDebunking access statistics are a proxy for popularity of particular items of #ClimateBunk.
Per these stats the "MWP" or "Medieval Warming Period" has done a steady fair-to-middling trade in #ClimateConfusion, for many years.
Here's a new 160-word treatment, created in collaboration with #GigaFact and designed for quick-and-easy use by understaffed newsrooms.
This one's quite simple, a bit easier to fit into few words-- yet the myth still has legs.
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Our #ClimateMythDebunking access statistics are a proxy for popularity of particular items of #ClimateBunk.
Per these stats the "MWP" or "Medieval Warming Period" has done a steady fair-to-middling trade in #ClimateConfusion, for many years.
Here's a new 160-word treatment, created in collaboration with #GigaFact and designed for quick-and-easy use by understaffed newsrooms.
This one's quite simple, a bit easier to fit into few words-- yet the myth still has legs.
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Our #ClimateMythDebunking access statistics are a proxy for popularity of particular items of #ClimateBunk.
Per these stats the "MWP" or "Medieval Warming Period" has done a steady fair-to-middling trade in #ClimateConfusion, for many years.
Here's a new 160-word treatment, created in collaboration with #GigaFact and designed for quick-and-easy use by understaffed newsrooms.
This one's quite simple, a bit easier to fit into few words-- yet the myth still has legs.
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At version 3.8, our critical thinking skills-building game #CrankyUncle now includes Romanian!
We've come a long way since 2022, the first year the game became multi-lingual-- with many complications entailed!
Many languages to go. Our hearty --Thank You-- goes to current and future volunteer translators!
(The same cognitive strengths against #ClimateBunk built by Cranky Uncle work on other faults of the wetware between our ears, such as #VaccinationReluctance.)
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2011: "medieval" relative to 2024? Perhaps so, in online terms. In any case the internet-ancient ca. 2011 #ClimateMyth centered on the "Medieval Warming Period" (MWP) as a dodge to exculpate us from our accidentally warming our planet continues to resonate. So our #ClimateMythDebunking access statistics indicate, as a proxy measure.
We've been doing an overall update of our #ClimateBunk treatments. Now up: the #MWP, with an at-a-glance treatment.
Opinions welcome!
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2011: "medieval" relative to 2024? Perhaps so, in online terms. In any case the internet-ancient ca. 2011 #ClimateMyth centered on the "Medieval Warming Period" (MWP) as a dodge to exculpate us from our accidentally warming our planet continues to resonate. So our #ClimateMythDebunking access statistics indicate, as a proxy measure.
We've been doing an overall update of our #ClimateBunk treatments. Now up: the #MWP, with an at-a-glance treatment.
Opinions welcome!
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2011: "medieval" relative to 2024? Perhaps so, in online terms. In any case the internet-ancient ca. 2011 #ClimateMyth centered on the "Medieval Warming Period" (MWP) as a dodge to exculpate us from our accidentally warming our planet continues to resonate. So our #ClimateMythDebunking access statistics indicate, as a proxy measure.
We've been doing an overall update of our #ClimateBunk treatments. Now up: the #MWP, with an at-a-glance treatment.
Opinions welcome!
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2011: "medieval" relative to 2024? Perhaps so, in online terms. In any case the internet-ancient ca. 2011 #ClimateMyth centered on the "Medieval Warming Period" (MWP) as a dodge to exculpate us from our accidentally warming our planet continues to resonate. So our #ClimateMythDebunking access statistics indicate, as a proxy measure.
We've been doing an overall update of our #ClimateBunk treatments. Now up: the #MWP, with an at-a-glance treatment.
Opinions welcome!
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2011: "medieval" relative to 2024? Perhaps so, in online terms. In any case the internet-ancient ca. 2011 #ClimateMyth centered on the "Medieval Warming Period" (MWP) as a dodge to exculpate us from our accidentally warming our planet continues to resonate. So our #ClimateMythDebunking access statistics indicate, as a proxy measure.
We've been doing an overall update of our #ClimateBunk treatments. Now up: the #MWP, with an at-a-glance treatment.
Opinions welcome!
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What's the difference between the Little Ice Age and anthropogenic global warming?
Why doesn't the Little Ice Age (LIA) exculpate us from our climate oops?
Key terms: "little" and "global." Climate forcings acting together can produce powerful effects, but none so muscular as us.
We've updated our #ClimateMythRebuttal for this fizzled #ClimateBunk, now with at-a-glance treatment. Does it make sense? Let us know via the conveniently provided form at the article.
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"It's all about us!"
Well, no, no really. Too-rapid #AnthropogenicClimateChange is the topic here. Our beat is combating #SyntheticIgnorance about climate science, swatting down #ClimateMyths.
We treated the recently excreted carnival of #ClimateBunk "Climate: The Movie." We're delighted with the performance of our #debunking. So, we're dancing in the end zone with this as our Story of the Week in our latest #ClimateNews roundup.
35 other stories in this roundup!
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The slickly produced #ClimateBunk vehicle "Climate: The Movie" features a remarkable inventory of climate disinformers. 76% of the parroting personalities in the movie are found in the #DeSmog database.
This collection of the #UsualSuspects leans on 25 stale #ClimateMyth products of fossil fuel industry subcontractors, all already covered by us.
The movie is not about science but rather ideology, a familiar conflation of freedumb with freedom.
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The slickly produced #ClimateBunk vehicle "Climate: The Movie" features a remarkable inventory of climate disinformers. 76% of the parroting personalities in the movie are found in the #DeSmog database.
This collection of the #UsualSuspects leans on 25 stale #ClimateMyth products of fossil fuel industry subcontractors, all already covered by us.
The movie is not about science but rather ideology, a familiar conflation of freedumb with freedom.
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The slickly produced #ClimateBunk vehicle "Climate: The Movie" features a remarkable inventory of climate disinformers. 76% of the parroting personalities in the movie are found in the #DeSmog database.
This collection of the #UsualSuspects leans on 25 stale #ClimateMyth products of fossil fuel industry subcontractors, all already covered by us.
The movie is not about science but rather ideology, a familiar conflation of freedumb with freedom.
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The slickly produced #ClimateBunk vehicle "Climate: The Movie" features a remarkable inventory of climate disinformers. 76% of the parroting personalities in the movie are found in the #DeSmog database.
This collection of the #UsualSuspects leans on 25 stale #ClimateMyth products of fossil fuel industry subcontractors, all already covered by us.
The movie is not about science but rather ideology, a familiar conflation of freedumb with freedom.
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The slickly produced #ClimateBunk vehicle "Climate: The Movie" features a remarkable inventory of climate disinformers. 76% of the parroting personalities in the movie are found in the #DeSmog database.
This collection of the #UsualSuspects leans on 25 stale #ClimateMyth products of fossil fuel industry subcontractors, all already covered by us.
The movie is not about science but rather ideology, a familiar conflation of freedumb with freedom.
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Based on the proxy indicator of weekly reads, "Arctic ice melt is a natural cycle" has never been a compelling nugget of #ClimateBunk.
Perhaps this is because graphs are starkly communicative. In this case if graphs of arctic sea ice were talking loudly 15 years ago, now they're shouting-- or screaming.
We've revised this #ClimateMythRebuttal, updating and simplifying. We'd love to hear your critiques via the easy-access embedded form.
Ponder anomaly baseline data.
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Several years ago, members from our team spent a lot of time to help train an AI tool called #cards
So, it's cool to see CARDS put to good use and bearing fruit as the underlying tool utilized to create @CCDHate's report about "The New Climate Denial"!
Favorite pull quote: “There is no relationship between hurricane activity and the surface temperature of the planet." Take a moment to fully unpack, savor that. 🙂
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Surgical disassembly of #JordanPeterson #ClimateBunk by a doctor of the type with the appropriate surgeon's skillset.
Climate Adam brings humor to a grim topic. This really helps to cross boundaries. Also it's just plain fun to see a liar called out so entertainingly.
Useful takeaway: "Distraction is key to climate science denial." Look closely and "change the topic" does indeed centrally feature.