Posted on 12/05/2022 1:29:46 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Lies about climate change on Twitter escalated to unprecedented levels this year, according to new analyses. The unnerving rise of content that rejects widely accepted climate science — sometimes referred to as climate skepticism or climate denial — piles on top of growing concerns about misinformation and hateful content that’s proliferated since Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform.
There have been more tweets and retweets “using climate-sceptic terminology” in 2022 than in any other year since Twitter’s founding in 2006, according to analysis conducted for The Times by City, University of London researchers. That’s 850,000 climate-skeptic tweets or retweets this year compared to 650,000 in 2021 and 220,000 in 2020.
“Climate denial on Twitter was already a dumpster fire; now, it’s as if it had a litre of gas thrown on it.”
Much of the recent rise in climate misinformation can be tied to a single hashtag: “#climatescam.” It makes up around 40 percent of tweets this year containing climate-skeptic language, City, University of London researchers Max Falkenberg and Andrea Baronchelli found. That’s compared to just 2 percent before this year 2022.
“I can understand climate scientists saying this is not a productive place for conversations with each other any more. They’ve become lightening rods for hate speech and death threats, we are seeing a real escalation of threats against them, intended to drive them off the platform,” Jennie King, head of civic action and education at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, said to The Guardian.
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Who is qualified to determine what is “climate misinformation” or not? There is no central authority in science which makes final declarations. Science involves constant research, revision, improving and fine-tuning. When “science” becomes dogmatic, it is no longer science.
Government does not have that qualification. Social media CEOs don’t either.
The only sane course of action is to let everyone post their own opinions with censorship only for things that lead to someone getting hurt, like the crap that’s on Tiktok right now.
Can’t have the peons dissenting from the party line, can we?
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How does ‘the verge’ know what is or is not climate misinformation?
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I’d bet not one of these pretend-to-be journalists could answer a question like, “What was the Younger Dryas?”. They know nothing except the propaganda they repeat like a catechism.
“ . They’ve become lightening rods for hate speech ”
As long as they don’t become lightning rods every thing should be ok.
when algore started all those years before, he was lying then, to make money for his gargantuan castle electric bills.
every one of those crying out climate change, live within 30 yards of the waterline on the beach.
its alays 12 years away, whether algore, obama, thurnnberg, or AOC! Never has the timeframe lessened between cryers.
“The Verge”. LOLOL!
... as Kurt Schlichter describes it, “a weird weather cult.”
"Climate truth"
Where you stand depends on where you sit.
At one time it was “ widely accepted” the the Earth was the center of the universe
As a Twitter reader, I’ll tell you something else; a lot of times these deniers post FACTS, which are in complete contradiction to the global warming scam. The government needs to stop Elon from allowing this.
Throw it all out there and let people decide who the crazy ones are ,LOL
The people who think men can get pregnant are worried about misinformation. Lol.
You don’t own the narrative any longer MSM.
They’re misspelling truth as misinformation.
‘When “science” becomes dogmatic, it is no longer science.’
absolutely; it becomes religion...
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