#climatebunk — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #climatebunk, aggregated by home.social.
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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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"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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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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"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.