#climateconfusion — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #climateconfusion, aggregated by home.social.
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"The plan will enable a huge surge in passenger and cargo traffic over the next decade."
This is the same Port of Seattle touting its deep commitment to decarbonization.
"...over the next decade." Unpacked: the upsized airport and increased footprint will arrive much more reliably and sooner than any significant reduction of aviation emission intensity, let alone net output (20 years is wildly optimistic).
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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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"i) How is trust in science associated with belief in the importance of climate change as a problem? ii) How is trust in science associated with beliefs about whether climate change is caused by humans or nature? iii) Who trusts university research centers?"
How about: "How is trust destroyed by active measures practiced by special interests?"
Without finding the nail in one's tire, one cannot mend a puncture, and may pump away in complete futility.
https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000147
