Thread by @ErrataRob

Fact-check: It's not a nuclear power plant. It's an old steel plant shut down before the 2008 summer Olympics because of the enormous air pollution it caused. Like power plants, steel plants need cooling towers, too.

https://twitter.com/jfslowik/status/1490530395577741313

Not all nuclear power plants have towers that look like this.

Most towers that look like this are not for nuclear power plants.

Here's an article on it:
olympics.com/ioc/news/beiji…

I find such tweets irritating. Obviously, the tweeter thinks something important is going on, but it's hidden somewhere in the subtext that I cannot see. Only by reading in replies can I deduce the subtext that everyone else can see.

Fact-check: Beijing doesn't get snow. Only the ice events happen in Beijing city, the snow events happen up in the mountains north. And those mountains are mostly dry in the winter, too.

https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1490521836572094469

You can read the proposals from 2014. Norway says it'll have 55cm of snow, Kazakstan 65cm, and China "artificial snow-making capacity would be required".
stillmed.olympics.com/media/Document…

As far as I can tell, the weather in Beijing is completely average, so says nothing about "climate change".