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9 Apr, 7 tweets, 2 min read
One quarter of the tweets on the US withdrawal from Paris Agreement were generated by bots and the majority promoted climate denial. This fits with my own experience: about 25-30% of those I have to block score v high on bot detectors (but over 70% don't!) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
A similar pattern was observed with misinformation that was deliberately manufactured and disseminated regarding the devastating Australian bushfires last year. Lies included the claim that climate activists started the fires to ... prove climate change?! theconversation.com/bushfires-bots…
We humans are suckers for false info that confirms our preexisting biases. That's why fake news on Twitter travels 6x faster than truth. In other words, on avg, the tweets by troll with 10k followers will reach further than those of a scientist with 60k. apnews.com/article/8da97e…
Disinformation on social media is so endemic, in fact, and calling it out is clearly so monitored, that you can see at least one bot and a few trolls replying to this very thread.
That's why ...
And if you are looking for reputable sources on climate information to follow on Twitter, I have a list of 3,146 scientists in climate-related fields you can subscribe to with a single click, or choose individual accounts to follow -> twitter.com/i/lists/105306…
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A small sample from email inbox of a climate scientist.
These and nearly 200 other "zombie" arguments are fully addressed, with citations to all the original scientific studies, by this excellent list: skepticalscience.com/argument.php
I also have more than 30 short episodes here that address common questions from "isn't it just a natural cycle?" to "how is climate change affecting me where I live?" and "is it too late to fix it?" globalweirdingseries.com
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Many Texans are in dire straights. Some have not had power or water for days. As always, it's those below the poverty line who are suffering most. If you'd like to help, please donate to one of the organizations in this list. rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…
The stories are heart-breaking. wsj.com/articles/in-fr…
And the politics is undeniable. earther.gizmodo.com/how-much-the-o…
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Overshadowed by coronavirus, 2020 set a new annual record of 22 billion-dollar weather and climate events in the U.S. - shattering the previous annual record of 16 events that occurred in 2011 and 2017. Source: ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/
As this Global Weirding episode explains, the question isn't "did climate change cause this event?" Rather, scientists ask "how much worse did climate change make it?" And increasingly, the answer is: "a lot."
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If you're wondering how climate change is a justice issue, here's a very short + simple explanation: it disproportionately affects the poor, vulnerable, and marginalized and puts at risk our ability to achieve every extremely basic goal on this list. It's a Threat Multiplier.
The reason why @Pontifex wrote an entire encyclical about climate change is because climate change is a justice issue. catholicclimatecovenant.org/encyclical
The reason why @EcuPatriarch Bartholomew has made climate change a central focus is because it's a justice issue; and I'll be speaking with him and Metropolitan John of Pergamon about it tonight. halkisummit.com/hs4/
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Why this effect? Not because @GretaThunberg ate less meat or encouraged her family not to fly: if that's all she'd done, we'd never know her name. No, it's because she did one simple but incredibly powerful thing we can all emulate: she raised her voice to advocate for change.
Every year, I add 2 new low-carbon habits to my life. But every DAY, I do the most impt thing anyone can to do change the system we live in: I TALK about climate change. Not the science details, but why it matters and how, working together, we can fix it. ted.com/talks/katharin…
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