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2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #21
Posted on 23 May 2021 by BaerbelW
We started the week with two "left-overs" from the previous week's concurrently running series and Revisiting some Analogies - A sinking ship reaches new heights became the post garnering the most attention. A running thread this week were articles related to misinformation and how to tackle it: Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Help Your Conspiracy Theorist Friend, From Denial to Ambiguity: A New Study Charts the Trajectory of ExxonMobil’s Climate Messaging, A New Book Manages to Get Climate Science Badly Wrong, Fake News Spreads Like A Virus. These New Online Games Could ‘Vaccinate’ People Against Misinformation, How natural gas propaganda made it into elementary classrooms in deep blue America, Science Had a Misinformation Problem Before COVID. Scientists Want to Fix It, and Climate Guilt, Brought To You By Big Oil.
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- Repustar Fact Brief: Are polar bears endangered? by Anne-Marie Blackburn, Repustar, Apr 28, 2021
- Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Help Your Conspiracy Theorist Friend by Mick West, Skeptical Inquirer, Apr 30, 2021
- Revisiting some Analogies - A sinking ship reaches new heights by Evan, jg, SkepticalScience.com, May 15, 2018
- ‘Uncertainty is not our friend’: Scientists are still struggling to understand the sea level risks posed by Antarctica by Chris Mooney and Brady Dennis, The Washington Post, May 5, 2021
- From Denial to Ambiguity: A New Study Charts the Trajectory of ExxonMobil’s Climate Messaging by Nicholas Kusnetz, Inside Climate News, May 13, 2021
- A New Book Manages to Get Climate Science Badly Wrong by Gary Yohe, Scientific American, May 13, 2021
- Fake News Spreads Like A Virus. These New Online Games Could ‘Vaccinate’ People Against Misinformation by Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, May 17, 2021
- What I Learned in Space about the Climate Emergency by Scott Kelly, Scientific American, May 16, 2021
- IEA: Renewables should overtake coal ‘within five years’ to secure 1.5C goal by Simon Evans & Josh Gabbatiss, Carbon Brief, May 18, 2021
- Climate change disinformation is evolving. So are efforts to fight back by Carolyn Gramling, Science News, May 18, 2021
- Climate Facts: How to Say It With Science by United Nations Foundation, Say it with facts, May 19, 2021
- Climate crisis may trigger recessions like one caused by Covid, scientist predicts by Kevin O'Sullivan, The Irish Times, May 19, 2021
- How natural gas propaganda made it into elementary classrooms in deep blue America by Ysabelle Kempe, Grist, May 19, 2021
- The world can become net zero by 2050, IEA report outlines how by Stephen Leahy, The Weather Network, May 18, 2021
- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #20, 2021 by Doug Bostrom, Skeptical Science, May 19, 2021
- Ten Thousand Years of Climate Change by Adam Levy, ClimateAdam on YouTube, May 20, 2021
- Op-Ed: Are we finally willing to limit the supply of fossil fuels? by Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes, The Los Angeles Times, May 20, 2021
- Science Had a Misinformation Problem Before COVID. Scientists Want to Fix It by Sarah Wells, Vice, May 20, 2021
- AGU 2020 - Stephen Schneider Memorial Lecture by Michael Mann, AGU‘s YouTube Channel, May 14, 2021
- Climate Guilt, Brought To You By Big Oil by Amy Westervelt, Drilled Podcast, May 17, 2021
Yesterday (May 25) two new board members were elected to the board of Exxon. These new board members have climate concerns!!!! Who would have thought 5 years ago that climate activists would be on the ExxonMobil board!
Hopefully industry will start to work on climate solutions instead of denial. There is hope for the future.