#gigafact — Public Fediverse posts
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We continue our collaboration with #Gigafact, another non-profit with a specialized mission: provide impoverished newsrooms with brief, plain language #ClimateMythDebunkings ready to drop into news coverage.
Here's the latest output, covering #SeaLevelRise.
Sea level is fairly easy fodder for creating confusion; the behavior of sea level varies broadly depending on where on our #geoid one measures. A noisy signal but with a clear broad trend.
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Due to circumstances beyond our control we're running a little behind here on Mastodon.
On November 13 we commemorated a pleasing accomplishment: completion of 20 fact briefs in cooperation with #Gigafact, a non-profit pursuing the singular purpose of equipping journalists with turnkey #debunkings of common misinformation and disinformation.
We help Gigafact with matters of climate change, often tricky due to the brevity of these drop-in treatments.
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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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Here's our latest collaborative product in cooperation
with #GigaFact, a colleague non-profit dedicated to debunking rubbish propagated by various special interests.GigaFact supplies journalists with quick and easy fact checks,, especially important when newsrooms are cut to the bone.
Our contribution is to help with correcting #ClimateDisinformation, our own particular specialty.
Topic du jour: "it's natural cycles," a comforting but completely wrong analogy.
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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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Whether by accident or design a certain flavor of #ClimateScienceDenial centers on semantic niceties.
Maybe no better example than "ocean acidification." The term "acidification" is a neutral (!) expression of falling pH-- from any starting level. #ClimateMyth enthusiasts would like us to believe this term of movement on a continuum to be hyperbole. It isn't; it's only an expression of direction.
Here's our 150-word treatment, in collaboration with #GigaFact.
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"Gigafact is a nonprofit that equips newsrooms to counter misinformation and protect the democratic process."
And we're proud to be partnering with #Gigafact, another organization focused on filling a particular gap. Here, layout-friendly drop-in debunking content, consistently treated and conveniently to hand for editors and reporters.
We're sharing our expertise on #ClimateMyths with Gigafact.
The tight 150-word budget makes each a puzzle for authors to solve.