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Social Media Is a Growing Vehicle for Climate Misinformation.
Research shows that social media influencers can shape climate denialism around the world.
As this disinformation deluge hit, meteorologists were accused of pushing a “climate change agenda” and received frequent backlash or threats from viewers, James Marshall Shepherd, a former NASA weather scientist who is currently director of the University of Georgia’s atmospheric sciences program, told Yale Environment 360. In July, I wrote about a NATO report that outlined the accelerating security threats from climate change, which stressed that these foreign social media campaigns aim to “exploit emotions, sow distrust in official response and otherwise impair Allies’ ability to respond effectively to crises.” Researchers at Brown University recently uncovered a complex network of conservative think tanks and fossil fuel interest groups funding whale activism efforts to combat offshore wind, despite the dearth of evidence that turbines are directly causing animal mortalities.
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