Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Climate misinformation explodes on Twitter - The Verge

Just 10 Twitter handles accounted for a quarter of recent widely shared climate-skeptic content. Musk's decision to welcome back people who had previously been barred from the platform has also allowed people to return who push content that contradicts mainstream climate science. That includes Canadian personality Jordan Peterson, who was initially thrown off Twitter in July for tweets misgendering trans actor Elliot Page. Recently, Peterson has taken to Twitter to disparage efforts to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions, which research has found is necessary by the middle of the century to prevent global warming from surpassing 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial times...


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