It's hard being an antidote to propaganda. X is a medium for both its direct& lateral forms. It works best when people believe they are thinking independently.
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One key challenge to science is the tobacco playbook applied to creating doubt about the seriousness of climate change. The "doubt is our product" strategy about tobacco harm started in the 1950s & lasted 30 years & was then transfered to #climateChange.
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TheAntidote retweeted
Reforestation, vehicle electrification, solar & wind are making a difference, but we need more & faster. #climatechange Quirks and Quarks with Bob McDonald - cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-5…
Belief in free speech is often interpreted as being the freedom to speak irresponsibly--to dupe people into consuming junk or wrong ideas---or to use financial power to fool government to act in a non utilitarian manner. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)
@ClimateRealists: “this is a sceptical feed”.
How funny that @ClimateRealists is not at ALL “sceptical” about the easily refuted fake graphs they post. 😂
It’s also yet another another “free speech” advocacy account that blocks people refuting their science-illiterate rubbish posts.
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TheAntidote retweeted
Here's what #AdamSmith said. It includes a quote from "The Wealth of Nations". And if you think America's corporate leaders, dime-a-dozen Libertarians, Republicans, and some Democrats too, aren't abusing his ideas, you might have a perception problem.
What bullshit from @GeorgeRuxV8Dude ! The oil industry has historically received billions in subsidies and continues to suck on the government's tit. #climatebrawl
If wind and solar produced electric energy is so wonderful, why do you want others to pay for the infrastructure? The infrastructure for Coal, Gas, and Oil didn’t need government subsidies. They paid for it by providing low cost energy to consumers. Wind and solar are more expensive delivering electricity as needed on a 24/7 basis. Moreover, wind and solar farms are often in remote locations far from demand requiring higher transmission costs. Stop the subsidies and watch wind and solar die.
His dumb joke aside, does fake fact checker & bot@Faktantarkast10 realize that Musk's claim that putting them in space because it's "easy to harness vast quantities of energy up there and to cool centers" is pure bullshit that's not supported by physics? youtu.be/S1umCJfbJ0w?si=byAD…
We have to put data centers in space 🛰.
That way they are safe from CLIMATE CHANGE 🦉😄.
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There is indeed no "casual" link. But there is a causal link proven by isotopic fingerprints, hyperspectral satellite observations on IR leaving Earth from 2003–2021 etc evidence-basedscience.com/cl… #climatechange
Is Kutney losing the plot here? It's the burning of fossil fuels - hydrocarbons in other words, that has raised civilization to what it is now.
There is literally NO casual link between burning fossil fuels and climate change.
If our posts are irrelevant, why does Kutney respond?
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An honorable mention for @pmbbiggsy for being only the millionth moron on X to use that scientifically incorrect argument regarding concentration in the context of greenhouse gases. #climatechange
Methane is only 0.00019% of the atmosphere - it’s not a super pollutant or a super greenhouse gas in the atmosphere compared to in a test tube because of the overlapping infrared absorption spectrum with water vapour.
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This rationalizer ignores the fact that Lyme disease has spread all over the Northeast due to milder winters. He ignores all the infrastructure damage to the Arctic from climate change. He either takes people for fools --or he fooled himself. #climatebrawl
The fake fact-checker & bot, @Faktantarkast10, is at it again. He's treating the intensity of a heat wave as though it were determined exclusively by the standard deviation of temperatures around the mean. It ain't. #climatebrawl
@Reuters posts absolute trash.
The AVERAGE temperature of Earth rose between 1970 and 2026.
The VARIATION of temperatures (standard deviation) has remained the same.
A "heat wave" is a deviation. Deviations are the same size as they were in the 1960s. They are not "stronger".
I lost an uncle to COVID 19 because his dumbass granddaughter infected him after reading crap on the internet. My anecdote is a lot more common than that of antivaxxer @retroamxev
Lost an Uncle and nephew from complications to the "safe" vaccine ...but that was changed. So excuse me for being apprehensive.
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Let's see the #gambling industry profits off addiction; ad industry profits off gullibility; Trump industry profits off stupidity; Wall Street profits off greed. Is he equally angry at them? They all falsify far more than drug makers. At least many #pharmaceuticals are useful.
Yes if anyone cares about your personal health it’s the multibillion dollar pharmaceutical industry who profits off your sickness and is a habitual offender of fraud and falsifying data, according to the DOJ
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Last time I checked, sheep are less susceptible to productive SARS-CoV-2 infection than several other mammals. So there was no need to vaccinate them during the epidemic. Unfortunately there's no vaccination to protect TZL from the propaganda he swallowed while stuck at home.
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Thanks for pointing that out I detail. Thousands on X either deliberately or naively confuse what bad journalists predicted with what climate scientists actually said.
Your meme is rather stupid. Do better.
No climate scientist ever "predicted" that New York City would be underwater by now.
That's a science-denier misrepresentation about what James Hansen actually said in 1988 in an interview when he was asked to speculate on what the view out the window of his office in NYC would look like in 40 years IF CO2 was doubled. Has CO2 doubled? No. It's been increased by just oiver 50% from burning fossil fuels.
Jonathan Coleman was not a climate scientist. His degree was in journalism. He said a lot of easily refuted nonsense about climate change.
Pretty much ALL of the published predictions by climate scientists from decades ago have already been observed:
See:
teapaw.org/Ceist8/status/21120599…
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Radiation from the radio part of spectrum is not harmful. That from the visible spectrum makes the world beautiful. At 100 mSv of gamma& above, an increased cancer risk becomes detectable in population studies. It damages DNA directly & indirectly through radical production.
Oh, there are so many things the public gets wrong about physics. My (anti)favorite is radiation. They treat it like it's something magically harmful
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Like, for example, the way he and others accept the risk of human- caused climate change by doing nothing? #climatechange
True. One of the strangest things about my job is watching people demand zero risk from technologies while accepting enormous risks from doing nothing.
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TheAntidote retweeted
When your conclusions that climate science is a "hoax" comes first before even looking at all the science & evidence that you desperately avoid, you're just a zealous science denier.😂
teapaw.org/Ceist8/status/20909677…
How many times every day do we see human caused climate change deniers claim "Climate change is a hoax!"?
There’s over 34,000 cited published research papers from scientists in just the last IPCC AR6 2021 report alone.
There’s not even one “skeptic” paper that has ever successfully refuted the mountains of evidence.
"The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal that human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have caused global warming"- IPCC AR6 2021
ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessm…
"Indicators of Global Climate Change 2025: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence”
essd.copernicus.org/articles…
Physics and the Earth's geological record show that CO2 is a major driver of climate change. CO2 levels are the highest they've been since the middle Miocene 14-16 million years ago.
We've increased CO2 atmospheric levels by more than 50% from ~280ppm since the pre-industrial era to 430pmm now.
CO2 levels changed naturally in the Earth’s history over tens of thousands to millions of years, not decades. We’re already seeing the impacts of an increase of global mean temperature of ~1.4C since the pre-industrial era.
The rapid increase is now already intensifying extreme weather events like heatwaves, droughts, and floods, threatening biodiversity, agriculture, and human health.
A better example would be how high concentrations of oxygen can generate reactive oxygen species that damage cells, proteins, DNA & cell membranes. These chemical species are also formed when CCl₄, paraquat(herbicide) & tobacco smoke enter the body.
even 02 is toxic. Acute 02 poisoning occurs at high partial pressures (think deep-sea diving), and chronic at atmospheric pressure when 02 is above 40% for long periods of time.
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Clueless George is wrong on all 3: 1) noaa.gov/education/resource-…. 2) In 1965, 52% of US men smoked 3) news.harvard.edu/gazette/sto… #climatebrawl
Mr Antidote: the tobacco analogy is weak for several reasons
1) Tobacco executives knew use of their product was harmful to health. There is no evidence CO2 emitted by fossil fuels is harmful to humans
2) Tobacco was used by a minority of individuals who were addicted. Oil is used by everyone. Oil companies are not committing a crime providing a legal product used by everyone
3) Tobacco executives lied to Congress. The Oil Companies have not
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Well, in fact, #hunger for food in the world has been decreasing: from 12.8% in 2000 to the current 7.8%(see FAO). But your kind of global hunger for bullshit has been on the rise.
World Poverty can not be solved. Because feeding hungry people means they will produce exponentially more hungry people not capable to feed themselves.
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Good answer and an important paper, Julian ( @rexdelay ). agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
