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New AI tool for climate misinformation

“Ultimately, our goal is the Holy Grail of fact-checking, which is being able to detect and debunk misinformation in real time. Ideally, I would have social media platforms using it to detect misinformation in real time.”
What counts as "climate misinformation"?
Let's have a look

"Denialist keywords include references to
extremes in the past, extremes not
increasing or extremes not linked to
climate change."
More denialist claims

Includes "damages/deaths from extreme weather aren’t increasing"
Includes "extreme weather linked to non-climate change phenomena (like ENSO)"
More denialist claims

Includes "Future generations will be richer and better able to adapt"
More denialist claims

"Carbon Capture & Sequestration (CCS) is unproven/expensive"
More denialist claims

"Nuclear power is safe/good for society/economy/environment"
More denialist claims

Criticism of Skeptical Science 🤣
If there was ever any doubt that these guys want to control public debate & silence those with differing views that's gone

Wash Post: washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/1…

Nature Reports: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Fun times!
PS. These are the folks behind the new AI tool for detecting the denialists among us

forbes.com/sites/rogerpie…

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9 Dec
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Last day of class today
A weird but overall good semester

My big in-person class had COVID-19 positives most weeks & many students missed class due to actual, suspected or feared COVID-19

CU doesn't allow profs to change modality (eg, to remote instruction) even temporarily
My advice to @CUBoulder @CUBoulderENVS is to allow profs to decide if/when a temporary change to remote might better serve students (and faculty)

I know some (>15/75) of my students missed classes that they would not have due to coming down with COVID-19 or fear of exposure
CU policy is masks in classrooms expect instructors >6ft distant from students

This worked fine all semester, absolutely no issues raised by any student🙏

Hopefully it limited spread of COVID-19 from the many positive cases I know we had in the classroom
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8 Dec
🚨Wow
Report of the Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Freedom

"grave concern about retaliation and a sense that anyone who objected to the state of affairs might lose his or her job or be punished"
drive.google.com/file/d/1mB6mjq…
Miami Herald coverage: "Fear of upsetting state officials is pervasive among faculty at the University of Florida, to the point that race-related references have been edited out of course materials and researchers felt pressure to destroy COVID-19 data"
miamiherald.com/news/local/edu…
Compare report from the faculty to findings of administrators: "University of Florida Board of Trustees ensures that the institution is free from undue influence by external persons or bodies through clear and consistently enforced policies and procedures"
tampabay.com/news/education…
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7 Dec
2021 continues a long-term trend of fewer tornadoes in the US

8 of the past 10 years have been below average

via @NWSSPC Image
The US has also seen a long-term decrease in hail
2021 shatters the record for least hail
Each of the past 10 years has been below average
via @NWSSPC Image
In 2021 Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclones are also below average
6 of the past 10 years have been below average
via @CSUAtmosSci Image
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2 Dec
Absolutely amazing & somewhat sad

Observations of hurricane activity apparently don't show the right trends
So this new paper re-invents history by using modeled historical hurricane activity to find the right trends

Predictably, gross misinformation follows
This is where we are at in hurricane research?😐
And the MIT press release fails to accurately reflect the paper
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2 Dec
During the pandemic (in 2020) in most places around the world expressed public trust in science increased dramatically from 2018 (but not Central Asia/Russia and Sub-Saharan Africa), both in general & within regions

via @wellcometrust Global Monitor:
cms.wellcome.org/sites/default/…
Reported trust in science increased the most among those who expressed having the least scientific knowledge
In general WHO is trusted much more than national governments, with a few notable exceptions
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16 Nov
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Today IOC released a new Framework on Fairness, Inclusion & Non-discrimination on the basis of gender identity & sex variations
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This offers a sharp rebuke to World Athletics "Semenya Rule" barring certain women from competition without medicating Image
The IOC prioritizes the prevention of harm

The World Medical Association @medwma opposes the World Athletics "Semenya Rule" because of its harm to athletes

No more need be said on this topic Image
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Yet the WADA Anti-Doping Code was recently modified in light of the "Semenya Rule" to allow drug tests to be used for gender verification

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