#climatemythdebunking — Public Fediverse posts
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The fundamental mechanisms of our accidentally heating our planet are not very complicated in terms of material effects.
We've made it harder for energy to escape the planet, without a commensurate decrease in energy input.
So we warm up. It's that simple.
But when it comes to obfuscation and distraction, #GlobalWarming is a fertile ground. All sorts of complexities can be introduced, to confuse.
Here's the latest collaborative #ClimateMythDebunking from #Gigafact and Skeptical Science.
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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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Happy (not sure that's _quite_ the right sentiment) to see @SkepticalScience's recent revamp of our #ClimateMythDebunking for the Medieval Warm Period cited in this Guardian fact check.
Along with two others.
We do volcanoes as well, but no complaints. :-)
Those of us too close to this topic think of these #ClimateMyths as old and harmless, but here's Reform UK breathing new life into 'em. Ignore at our peril.
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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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How to effect positive change: pick a strategy, marry with tactics-- consistently. Find an important niche needing more service, fill it. Don't become distracted, avoid redundancy.
That's how we operate Skeptical Science. We focus on #ClimateMythDebunking services to the public.
We're partnering with #GigaFact, a new nonprofit following the above general plan by providing newsrooms easy access to brief but definitive rebuttals to misinformation and disinformation.