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Climate - the Movie: a hot mess of (c)old myths!
https://skepticalscience.com/climate-the-movie-a-hot-mess-of-cold-myths.html

Human self-destruction is no-doubt part of 'intelligent design', so beloved of the religious. 😉
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329820-200-understand-faulty-thinking-to-tackle-climate-change/

Understand faulty thinking to tackle climate change
The amorphous nature of climate change creates the ideal conditions for human denial and cognitive bias to come to the fore, says George Marshall

AI uncovers climate change denial hotspots across the US
Scientists at the University of Michigan, have profiled climate change denialism across the United States using artificial intelligence and network analysis. They find that a large proportion of Americans do not believe in climate change.
Twitter data analysis revealed that about 14.8% of Americans do not believe in climate change. The highest prevalence of denialism was noticed in the Central and Southern US. In contrast, …

AI uncovers climate change denial hotspots across the US
A University of Michigan study using AI and Twitter data analysis reveals that approximately 15% of Americans deny climate change, with denialism prevalent in Central and Southern US and influenced by political affiliation, education, and belief in science.

> I stand in solidarity with the countless German workers and activists within institutions such as yours who are appalled by and fighting against the current climate of racism, censorship, rising authoritarianism and atrocity-denial.
#ChinaMiéville
#FreePalestine

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1. The speed with which the climate is now changing is faster than (almost) all scientists thought possible.
2. There is now zero prospect of holding the average temperature increase this century to below 1.5°C; even 2°C is beginning to slip out of reach. The vast majority of climate scientists know this, but rarely if ever give voice to this critically important reality.
3. At the same time, the vast majority of people still haven’t a clue about what’s going on – and what this means for them and everything they hold dear.
4. The current backlash against existing (already wholly inadequate) climate measures is also accelerating – and will cause considerable political damage in 2024. Those driving this backlash represent the same old climate denial that has been so damaging over so many years.
5. The science-based institutions on which we depend to address this crisis have comprehensively failed us. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is incapable of telling the whole truth about accelerating climate change; the Conference of the Parties (under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) has been co-opted by the fossil fuel lobby to the point of total corruption.
6. By not calling out these incontrovertible realities, mainstream scientists are at risk of becoming the new climate deniers."
#ClimateCrisis

> I stand in solidarity with the countless German workers and activists within institutions such as yours who are appalled by and fighting against the current climate of racism, censorship, rising authoritarianism and atrocity-denial.
#ChinaMiéville
#FreePalestine

"Climate Crisis Denier Lee Anderson Finds Common Cause With Reform UK"
#UK #UnitedKingdom

Climate Crisis Denier Lee Anderson Finds Common Cause With Reform UK
The UK’s main climate science denial party has gained its first member of parliament with the defection of suspended Conservative MP Lee Anderson.  Anderson announced today that he was joining Reform UK, a right-wing, anti-green and anti-immigration party which is currently polling at 12 percent.  Reform campaigns to “scrap all of net zero” and last […]

‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show | Fossil fuels | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/30/fossil-fuel-industry-air-polluti…

Great piece by @… on the "pause" or "hiatus" if you like.
My favourite quote:
"The substitution of simplistic stats for physical understanding provides an opportunity for all kinds of shenanigans."
Can't help feeling that is applicable to many situations outside of

“Doubt is our product.”
Really, really interesting talk by one of Germany’s leading climate scientists, @…, in which he fact-checks the claims of “skeptics” and provides background on the infuriating disinformation campaigns and lies of the fossil fuel industry. 👏
The Public Climate Debate: Climate Scepticism and Denial

‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show
The fossil fuel industry funded some of the world’s most foundational climate science as early as 1954, newly unearthed documents have shown, including the early research of Charles Keeling, famous for the so-called “Keeling curve” that has charted the upward march of the Earth’s carbon dioxide levels.
Keeling would go on to establish the continuous measurement of global CO2 at the …

@dissident7@mastodon.social
^^ this account: Anti-vax, climate change denial, anti-mask mandates, Ivermectin pushing conspiracy theory "truthers".
Gotcha. >:(

‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show
The fossil fuel industry funded some of the world’s most foundational climate science as early as 1954, newly unearthed documents have shown, including the early research of Charles Keeling, famous for the so-called “Keeling curve” that has charted the upward march of the Earth’s carbon dioxide levels.
Keeling would go on to establish the continuous measurement of global CO2 at the …

SD: science is important for progress, but can also point out things not beneficial to economy (c.f. climate change). political environment now incl. decreased research funding, denial of science, misinformation, changing legal protections,… #ecsa2024

Calling the US a democracy is equivalent to climate denial.
The constitution granted suffrage only to white, male, *landowners*. The Senate is an anti-democratic institution designed to give outsized power to *landowners*. The US was founded as an aristocrat's paradise. The "of the ppl, by the ppl, for the ppl" nonsense was never anything more than marketing spin. Just PR bullshit.
The excellent video below explains with data that US today is an oligarchy.

Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think
I had no idea how bad things actually were until I saw one simple graph.

Calling the US a democracy is equivalent to climate denial.
The constitution granted suffrage only to white, male, *landowners*. The Senate is an anti-democratic institution designed to give outsized power to *landowners*. The US was founded as an aristocrat's paradise. The "of the ppl, by the ppl, for the ppl" nonsense was never anything more than marketing spin. Just PR bullshit.
The excellent video below explains with data that US today is an oligarchy.

Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think
I had no idea how bad things actually were until I saw one simple graph.