from thefreeonline on January 22, 2023 by agogo22
How to Rebuff a Climate Denier – Nexus Media News
You shouldn’t believe everything you see on the internet. Particularly when it comes to renewable energy. We started debunking some of the biggest myths about wind and solar energy – and ended up in a world of shady lobby groups and secret money streams. Come follow us down the rabbit hole.
Credits
Reporter: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Video Editor: Markus Mörtz
Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk, Michael Trobridge, Kiyo Dörrer
Factcheck: Kirsten Funck
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon
We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn’t need to be this way.
Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means.
Busting Myths: A Practical Guide To Countering Science Denial | IFLScience
We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we’ll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
#PlanetA #RenewableEnergy #Disinformation
Read more:
NREL’s life cycle assessment of electricity generation technologies:
University of Texas snowstorm report: https://energy.utexas.edu/sites/defau…
Hidden resilience and adaptive dynamics of the global online hate ecology:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158…
Obstructing action: foundation funding and US climate change counter-movement organizations: https://cssn.org/wp-content/uploads/2…
The Debunking Handbook: https://www.climatechangecommunicatio…
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:51 What we did
01:58 Emission myths
03:55 Texas snowstorm fiasco
06:11 The misinformation cooking pot
08:34 Cui bono?
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