Nonprofit #Gigafact produces ready-to-go fact briefs for hard-pressed short-staffed newsrooms, supplying authoritative specialist information to the public. In context these must be highly compressed.
Gigafact prioritizes treatments by prevalence of misinformation appearance. Here we see a seemingly immortal #ClimateMyth, "it's the sun."
Here's why it -isn't- the sun, presented with marvelous economy of words.
Skeptical Science collaborated on factual underpinnings.
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Help is here. We've partnered with the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law to adapt their authoritatively sourced debunkings of 33 common energy modernization myths for easy access.
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Earlier this year our volunteer editor Marc Kodack spotted an impressive answer to climate change solutions denial, 'Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles,' which he included in our weekly climate research survey. Written by Matthew Eisenson, Jacob Elkin, Andy Fitch, Matthew Ard, Kaya Sittinger & Samuel Lavine and published by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, this was obviously a very useful and timely resource. So, we also shared it widely on social media— where we soon noticed a theme in comments: 'Neat report - but it being a single PDF makes it impossible to link to each of the rebuttals directly.'
We're assisting #GigaFact with their mission as a non-profit to equip short-staffed news publishers and broadcasters with fact briefs touching on matters of #ClimateChange.
Getting everybody calibrated on how to compress often complicated topics to the extreme brevity of these easy-embed items has been a challenge.
We're starting to hit a decent pace of production.
Here's collaborative output correcting an old warhorse #ClimateMyth blaming change on cosmic rays.
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. This fact brief was written by Sue Bin Park from the Gigafact team in collaboration with John Mason. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline.
Here's our weekly trawl of academic #ClimateResearch investigating how we've yanked Earth's climate off course, how we're going to sort it out.
As well, an offering of select government and NGO reports touching on these matters.
A sweet debunking of a fresh #ClimateMyth:
* Absence of causality between seismic activity and global warming
Climate silence is fading:
* Climate Unscripted: The Reality of Climate Change and Sustainability Solutions in Unscripted TV
Learn-- then #vote!
"Was 1934 the hottest year on record?"
No. Even if it had been true, events we've precipitated have overtaken this old #ClimateMyth, which found its roots in a peculiar set of circumstances.
This statistic was -always- irrelevant in the big picture:
"Zooming out of the USA - making up around 2% of the world's surface - to the whole globe, however, shows that 1934 was in fact a rather chilly year."
Finito. Done and dusted.
We've revised this #ClimateMythRebuttal.
Ca. 2007 #ClimateMyth by a climate "skeptic:"
"One of the oft-cited predictions of potential warming is that a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from pre-industrial levels — from 280 to 560 parts per million — would alone cause average global temperature to increase by about 1.2 °C."
And going on to say how scientists were predicting a runaway greenhouse effect.
Which they were not
Meanwhile, the real prediction? Confirmed.
Revised for easier reading:
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.
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. This fact brief was written by John Mason in collaboration with members from the Gigafact team. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline.
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!
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.
The Desmog Climate Disinformation Database documents, 'individuals and organisations that have helped to delay and distract the public and our elected leaders from taking needed action to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and fight global warming.' It's a who's who of the organised climate change denial movement, in other words.
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