How to spot five of the #FossilFuel industry’s biggest #disinformation tactics
#AmyWestervelt and #KylePope have covered #ClimateDisinformation for a combined 20-plus years – here’s their guide on how to decode it
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/14/climate-disinformation-explainer
#ClimateCrisis #BigOil
Agree with this author: it's maddening.
‘Both-Sidesing the Climate Story’
#ColumbiaJournalismReview #KylePope
#ClimateJustice #ClimateChange
“It is maddening that, this far into the #ClimateCrisis, #news outlets continue to dither as to whether a single #weather event is related to the now-undeniable, violent changes in Earth’s weather. …
“The overwhelming #ScientificConsensus is that Earth is #warming, that man-made causes are to blame, and that one result is more extreme weather precisely like what we’ve seen this week on the #WestCoast. And yet the search for definitive causation—for hard proof that global shifts in climate produced a single event in one corner of one town—has become an odious tendency among journalists looking to create tension when there is none.”
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/california_storms_climate_crisis_eric_sorensen.php
<p>The recent storms in California have been tragic, killing at least nineteen people and soaking nearly the entire state, including cities, such as Palm Springs, that are more used to drought. But is climate change driving it? It is maddening that, this far into the climate crisis, news outlets continue to dither as to whether […]</p>
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