2022 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #48

Posted on 3 December 2022 by John Hartz

Story of the Week

#ClimateScam: denialism claims flooding Twitter have scientists worried

Many researchers are fleeing the platform, unnerved by the surge in climate misinformation since Musk’s chaotic takeover

Twitter has proved a cherished forum for climate scientists to share research, as well as for activists seeking to rally action to halt oil pipelines or decry politicians’ failure to cut pollution. But many are now fleeing Twitter due to a surge in climate misinformation, spam and even threats that have upended their relationship with the platform.

Scientists and advocates have told the Guardian they have become unnerved by a recent resurgence of debunked climate change denialist talking points and memes on Twitter, with the term #ClimateScam now regularly the first result that appears when “climate” is searched on the site.

Under the often chaotic leadership of Elon Musk, Twitter has fired content management teams, dismantled the platform’s sustainability arm and lifted bans on several prominent users with millions of followers, such as Donald Trump and the rightwing commentator Jordan Peterson, who has espoused falsities about the climate crisis. The changes have been too much to bear for some climate experts.

Click here to access the entire article as originally posted on The Guardian.

#ClimateScam: denialism claims flooding Twitter have scientists worried by Oliver Milman, Technology, The Guardian, Dec 2, 2022

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Sun, Nov 27, 2022

Mon, Nov 28, 2022

• Disasterology: a book review by Jeff Masters, Eye on the Storm, Yale Climate Connections, Nov 27, 2022
• Climate concern the main reason voters swung to independents at federal election, study finds by Adam Morton & Katharine Murphy, Australian Politics, The Guardian, Nov 27, 2022
• Old School Climate Denial Is Back by Amy Westervelt, News, Drilled Down, Nov 28, 2022

Tue, Nov 29, 2022

• Melting point: could ‘cloud brightening’ slow the thawing of the Arctic? by Andrew Anthony, Environment, The Observer/Guardian, Nov 27, 2022
• SkS Analogy 10 – Bathtubs and Budgets by Evan & jg, Skeptical Science, Nov 29, 2022
• Water as Part of the Climate Solution by Charlie Miller, Science, Inside Climate News, Nov 28, 2022

Wed, Nov 30, 2022

• Less attractive, less picky: How mating is changing in a hotter world by Kasha Patel, Climate, Washington Post, Nov 28, 2022
• Publishing a long overdue explainer about a scientific consensus by Bärbel Winkler, Skeptical Science, Nov 30, 2022
• Hawaii site that measures global CO2 shuts down after Mauna Loa volcano eruption by Oliver Milman, The Guardian, Nov 30, 2022

Thu, Dec 1, 2022

• The bizarre and destructive 2022 hurricane season ends by Jeff Masters, Eye on the Storm, Yale Climate Connections, Nov 30, 2022
• Heartland Institute’s Survey Actually Supports the 97% Climate Science Consensus It’s Trying to Attack by Glenn Branch, DeSmog International, Nov 30, 2022
• Federal government releases first ‘climate change statement’, but Australia remains behind on emissions targets by Michael Slezak, ABC News AU, Dec 1, 2022

Fri, Dec 2, 2022

• 3 tribes dealing with the toll of climate change get $75 million to relocate by Jaclyn Diaz, Climate, NPR News, Dec 1, 2022
• Skeptical Science New Research for Week #48 2022 by Doug Bostrom & Marc Kodack, Skeptical Science, Dec 1, 2022
• #ClimateScam: denialism claims flooding Twitter have scientists worried by Oliver Milman, Technology, The Guardian, Dec 2, 2022

Sat, Dec 3, 2022