Gernot WagnerJun 8, 2023
If you thought it couldn't get any nuttier
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/08/army-of-fake-social-media-accounts-defend-uae-presidency-of-climate-summit
#climate #COP28
Army of fake social media accounts defend UAE presidency of climate summit

Sultan Al Jaber – Cop28 president and CEO of state oil firm – is ‘ally the climate movement needs’, posts say

The Guardian
Show threadGernot Wagner
Well, it can get nuttier
https://www.newsweek.com/no-health-risks-smoke-new-york-city-fox-news-expert-1805413
#NYC #wildfire #climate
Fox News Expert Insists 'No Health Risk' from New York's Smoke-Filled Air

Fox News contributor Steve Milloy said that the air quality in NY is simply wildfire smoke and that "this is natural. This is not because of climate change."

Newsweek
Jun 8, 2023 at 7:38pmWeb
Show threadTendieMaster69Jun 8, 2023
@gwagner It can always get nuttier.
Show threadRhyothemisJun 8, 2023

@gwagner

I'm not going to read it since I don't want to get an ulcer from getting super PO'd. Just the headline is enough ...

Same network complaining that men's health issues get ignored - they need to look up mLOY & PAH.

Time to log off & do some angry house cleaning.

Show threadtoxtethogradyJun 8, 2023
@gwagner Remember when Ronald Reagan once claimed trees caused pollution? Since we didn't have Twitter or Facebook or Mastodon back then, I wrote a letter to the editor of the Houston newspaper suggesting that if Reagan felt like that, I'd offered him a wager - he'd sit in a garage with a car with the motor running, and I'd sit in a greenhouse full of noxious polluting plants. Whoever lasts longer wins...
Show threadO! ver Jun 8, 2023
@gwagner This guy has probably told to all his remaining family to #WearAMask