Not long ago, in more innocent times, I was driving with my three sons back from trying to ski on a mountain that doesn’t really have snow anymore, and we were talking about climate change. This was before the pandemic, and before our conversations shifted to discussions of what viruses are and why soap, miraculously,…
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Climate Deniers Are Out of Ideas
Photo: GettyFolks, the Washington Post had itself a Sunday night. The paper inexplicably published a puff piece on the “anti-Greta,” a German teen peddling soft climate denial who’s being supported by a group of old white guys at the Heartland Institute. It took two reporters to do one of the most egregious pieces of both…
A Quarter of All Climate Tweets Come From Bots—and They’re More Likely to Peddle Denial
Arguably, this is the most famous climate denier on Twitter.Photo: GettyThe bots are taking over, man. Researchers have found that bots are largely fueling climate denial propaganda on Twitter. In a draft research paper, scientists at Brown University found that a quarter of all tweets about climate change come from bots on an average day.…