CelloMom On Cars
"The [researchers] say the “report reveals how these East Coast #OffshoreWind opponents are not solely local – they are embedded in a network of seasoned #FossilFuel interests and #ClimateDenial think tanks that have perfected obstruction tactics for decades.”
One striking aspect of the anti-OSW network is the sharing of tactics and rhetoric, both in mainstream media and on social networks, said Slevin."
CelloMom On Cars
How #YouTube’s climate deniers turned into climate doomers
“What it is doing is creating a cohort of people who believe #ClimateChange is happening, but believe there’s no hope,”
The report lists as prominent sources of lies about climate change on YouTube:
Libertarian think tank The Heartland Institute;
media company BlazeTV, created by the former Fox News host Glenn Beck;
PragerU, not a university but a right-wing media outlet known for spreading disinformation.
https://grist.org/accountability/youtube-climate-denial-solutions-misinformation/
Mark Stosberg
@CelloMomOnCars What climate denial and climate doom have in common is that they are both excuses for inaction.
CelloMom On Cars
Delay is the new #ClimateDenial
"[Outright climate denial] is explicitly banned from generating ad revenue on #Youtube according to Google's policy.
Instead, the report found that last year 70% of #ClimateDenial content on the channels analyzed focused on attacking climate solutions as unworkable, portraying global warming as harmless or beneficial, or casting climate science and the environmental movement as unreliable. That's up from 35% five years earlier."
CelloMom On Cars
You'll hear a lot about whale deaths. But
"Experts say there’s no evidence that limited wind farm construction on the Atlantic Coast has directly resulted in any whale deaths, despite politically motivated statements suggesting a link.
[There are no whale deaths around older European wind farms, either]
The biggest threats [to whales] are shipping collisions and entanglement in fishing gear. Underwater noise pollution is another concern, they say."
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