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Am giving a free webinar this week with @350_Chicago on fine-tuning yoru BS detector to spot climate misinformation. Register at bit.ly/yourbsdetector
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The #CBQuiz 2024 is now live 🎥
🎉 This is the 10th year Carbon Brief has hosted its annual quiz.
Tune in to the livestream if you’d like to play along here: bit.ly/CBQuiz2024
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Global temperatures have remained persistently high over the past few months despite fading El Nino conditions in the tropical Pacific. We saw records tied or set in May, June, July, and August.
Its only in September 2024 that we are likely to move out of record territory:
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Had a great in-depth conversation with @StefanTSiegel from @HSGStGallen for his Sustainability Education Podcast on the psychology of climate misinformation & its similarities with myths about sustainability education sustainabilityeducation.capt…
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Just published a paper in @CommsEarth where we use the CARDS machine learning model to detect climate misinformation in 5 million climate tweets, finding over half of misinformation tweets involve personal attacks @MarkAndrejevic @liyuanfang @TravisCoan1 nature.com/articles/s43247-0…
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Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/1m2…
Jessica talks with @johnfocook who studies the cognitive #Psychology of #ClimateScience denial. John founded Cranky Uncle & @skepticscience. You can also read some climate facts here: skepticalscience.com/argumen…
#ClimateAction #Podcasts
ALT Climate Misinformation Mechanics, Cranky Uncle, and Skeptical Science with John Cook. The Environment in Canada Podcast, Ep. 26. Picture of two people having an argument and one reaching out.
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To check how good you already are at identifying the #FLICC techniques of science denial, visit the blog post for a @crankyuncles themed quiz and answer the 12 questions presented in an online form there. We hope that you have some cranky fun with this! sks.to/mastering-flicc?utm-s…
ALT Illustrative image for the FLICC Quiz with Cranky Uncle
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Here’s the problem. 99% of climate scientists agree the climate is warming and humans, mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels, are the cause. BUT in the US, only 55% of people know that virtually all experts agree. Called the consensus gap, fueled by deliberate disinformation.
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Nobody thinks the sun isn't driving the climate system (duh) but there's no evidence that *changes* in the sun are driving the big *changes* we see in the climate system.
There's immense evidence that greenhouse gases *are*, as predicted in 1979 by the Charney commission.
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🚨NEW: I Watched The Climate Deniers' New Movie So You Don't Have To: it's The Climate Laundry #3 - now with audio! "Climate: The Movie sets out to prove a) that there is no climate emergency and b) it is climate scientists who are corrupt, actually." open.substack.com/pub/climat…
ALT A shadowy figure stands on the stage of an old-timey movie theatre. Behind the figure the screen shows an image of the Earth surrounded by oil refineries. People are seated in the theatre, watching the figure.
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There's a new climate denial movie doing the rounds. In the first 42 minutes, it manages to hit 25 common & long-debunked myths about climate change. That may be a new record.
@skepticscience has a full analysis of its "hot mess of cold myths" here:
skepticalscience.com/climate…
ALT Skeptical Science's "bingo card" of climate myths, with the ones included in "Climate The Movie" indicated with a green check.
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Had an in-depth conversation with Linda Elder from @4thethinkers on critical thinking and climate misinformation youtu.be/_T_7Cpwuw1A
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Neat article! Even more so as it contains a direct link to The Conspiracy Theory Handbook written by @STWorg and @johnfocook hosted on @skepticscience! The handbook is available in 18 languages right now:
sks.to/conspiracyb
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'Climate delay' is a nasty new tactic by the #fossilfuel industry and its bought politicians.
As Prof @KHayhoe writes in her great book Saving Us, “the biggest challenge we face is not science denial, but a combination of tribalism, complacency and fear”.
euronews.com/green/2024/02/1…
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Galileo gambit: Claims someone must be correct because they’ve been criticized, and is commonly used to deny established science.
But it’s a false equivalence: We don’t remember Galileo because he disagreed, but because he was right.
thinkingispower.com/logical-…
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.@readfearn from @guardian delves into how I partnered with @UNICEF & @sabinvaccine to co-design the @crankyunclevax game in several African countries, pilot testing the game's effectiveness at inoculating against vaccine misinformation theguardian.com/society/2024…
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What’s a scientific consensus? What’s the role of consensus in science? And why are so many confused?
I ask these questions (& more!) to John Cook, an expert in climate change communication… and my good friend.
And shout-out to @NaomiOreskes (~11:18)!
youtu.be/O_7wZ5mLDmk?si=L4N-…
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Fun conversation with John Cook about Cranky Uncle, a game that teaches players how to identify the techniques of science denial. It’s fun & effective… & free!
While you’re there, please subscribe to my channel. :)
Video: youtu.be/SalraZ4QF2c?si=Ftr-…
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"Opinion: #COP28 has become a shameless exercise in the fight against climate change. But can we afford to walk out?" or "Good COP/Bad COP" | My new op-ed in the @LATimes with Susan Joy Hassol (@ClimateComms): latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
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CLIMATE WARS - The Battle for COP28. This Star Wars fan film uses practical models & stop motion like the original trilogy. FULL FILM is here: youtube.com/watch?v=8vT5GSvj… (Let me know if you like the full film on YouTube) #ClimateWars Best with volume at 50%, it can be loud!