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.
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.
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.
Methane contributes to global warming and methane's future role in our warming trajectory is a source of uncertainty-- and intensive research effort as a visit to our weekly #ClimateResearch listing indicates.
But methane is not exculpation for our primary role as the root cause of our current rapid surge of #GlobalWarming.
Here's the latest fruit of our collaboration with #Gigafact, a nonprofit outfit equipping newsrooms with ready-to-go #ClimateMythDebunkiings.
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.
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.
In April 2024 we announced the (renewed) collaboration between Gigafact and Skeptical Science to create fact briefs, short but credibly sourced summaries that offer “yes/no” answers in response to claims found online. Our initial plan had been to publish one fact brief per week on Saturdays but - as happens with many good plans - this turned out to be a somewhat too ambitious target for the project. We therefore took it more solwly and while we sometimes managed to publish a fact brief on consecutive Saturdays, the production rate turned out to be one fact brief every other week on average. Regardless of that, we published fact brief #20 on November 9 and thought that this little milestone might make for a good reason to write a short blog post about this project.
Our latest synthesis of effort with #Gigafact, to produce easy to deploy "fact briefs" for journalists (and others) who don't need to be duplicating effort.
"Is there an expert consensus on human-caused global warming?"
Yes, of course!
But this agreement has strong positive effects on the general public's enthusiasm for dealing with our #ClimateChange mess.
So, consensus has also been the target of a concerted campaign of deception intended to convey the opposite.
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.
In our most recent weekly #ClimateNews roundup we take a moment to celebrate some local news: completion and publication of our 16th "Fact Brief" so far this year, a product of our collaboration with #Gigafact.
Gigafact is supplying important cognitive infrastructure to journalists and newsrooms. "Read all about "it as we recap this effort and what we've learned.
That and 30 other items on #ClimateChange, all conveniently accessible from one launchpad.
A listing of 31 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, September 8, 2024 thru Sat, September 14, 2024. Story of the week From time to time we like to make our Story of the Week all about us— and this is one of those moments, except that 'us' is more than only Skeptical Science.
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.
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.
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.
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