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.
The evolved US administration resembles what is termed paranoid psychosis, intractable attachment to perceptions that are not in alignment with the real world.
This is not organic illness. It's the result of too many people absorbing garbage ideas promoted by various industries acting in alienated self-interest.
The remedy? There's no single cure but one thing we can do is to supply reminders of what's real and what isn't, #ClimateMythDebunkings .
Here's a nudge.
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 members from our team. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline.
"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.
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 members from our team. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline.
Here's the latest fruit of our collaboration with #GigaFact to produce drop-in #ClimateMythDebunkings for staff at newspapers.
Many news organs are cut to the bone these days, especially smaller publications. We're trying to make it easier for journalists to keep people on the path of reality when dealing with stories touching on #ClimateChange.
At 150 words there's no budget to explain how models have -always- been good enough to inform our decisions-- for decades.
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.
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