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

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.

#ClimateMyths

https://skepticalscience.com/fact-brief-settled.html

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."

https://skepticalscience.com/egu25-presentation-about-collaborations.html?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks

"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.

#ClimateMyths

https://skepticalscience.com/fact-brief-glacier.html?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-source=sks

"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.

https://skepticalscience.com/fact-brief-plant.html?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks

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.

https://skepticalscience.com/fact-brief-mwp.html

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.)

https://skepticalscience.com/cranky-uncle-game-multilingual.html?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks

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!

https://skepticalscience.com/medieval-warm-period.htm?utm-source=mastondo&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks