Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Dr. Willie Soon; “… Its all about planting little seeds of doubt” – CBC climate reporter Jaela Bernstien lamenting Twitter is not as enthusiastic as China’s TikTok at censoring climate skeptics.
From the video;
“… if people are exposed to this blizzard of false information about climate change, then their right to be informed about risk is being undermined…”
“.. misinformation can create a false sense that the science is still in question, when its not…”
“… there’s plenty of research showing that exposure to misinformation about climate change leads people to take it less seriously, and to be less willing to support climate actions …”
“… climate denial … erodes trust in science and undermines support for cutting emissions …”
“… misinformation can still slow support for the work that’s still going to decide all of our futures …”
“… we asked social media companies what are you doing about climate misinformation? Twitter didn’t respond, but Meta, TikTok Youtube all did. Two videos we flagged to TikTok are no longer on their site …”
See it for yourself: https://youtu.be/cOYLDr0ZTog
I’d love for CBC reporter Jaela Bernstien to explain the difference between being a fascist, and supporting the suppression of dissenting views, to prevent the free exchange of ideas from undermining support for your political cause. But I’m not holding my breath while waiting for that explanation to be published.
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March 22, 2023 at 04:56PM
Iowa Climate Science Education 
On the Monday edition of PBS NewsHour, climate scientist Katherine Hayhoe made the following comments during a segment on the latest IPCC AR:
“Well, we are already seeing the impacts here today in the way that climate change is loading the weather dice against us.
We know we have always had droughts and floods and hurricanes and heat waves. But, in a warming world, they’re getting stronger and more dangerous. And they’re impacting all of us. But they are particularly affecting those who are vulnerable and marginalized the most.
The warmer the world gets, the more it endangers our food supply, our water supply, the safety of our homes, our own health, our economy and supply chains, the natural environment. Every aspect of life on Earth, including our life on Earth, is at risk the warmer this planet gets.”
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“For many of us, it’s because we haven’t seen the impacts with our own eyes. We have heard about them. We know what’s happening to polar bears or Antarctica or ice sheets, but we’re not seeing it here and now. Well, that has changed.
Over the last year, at least one in three Americans were personally affected by the way that climate change is making our extreme weather more severe. We might live somewhere where sea level is rising, where hurricanes are getting stronger, where wildfires burn in greater area, where the summers are now dominated by record-breaking heat waves.”
I wonder if this is the type of misinformation to which Ms. Bernstien is referring?
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