Even if you scroll past the videos and social posts making false claims about climate change, you’re not immune. A growing body of evidence shows that misinformation is having an impact, even if you never fall down the rabbit hole.

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Immune to bogus climate claims? Think again

I've been doing a lot of scrolling on my phone lately and I've been noticing a lot of people making, just straight-up false claims or at least cherry-picking the facts to make it sound like climate change isn't as bad as it really is, and these posts sometimes are getting thousands if not millions of views. Yeah, there is only .01%. I wouldn't see anything wrong with having twice as much. CO2 is presently have, but it got me thinking, are people really buying into this? Pulls actually tell us the most Canadians. Believe, climate change is real station at most of the reactions are negative, and most of the comments are people trying to think of the lies or at the bombshell, what is being said? Doesn't mean it's cooling, everyone but does that mean it's not doing any damage about the public because the public doesn't have enough time? You know how to sort of a 62 all the information that's out there so misinformation can have a very strong Packed on people's attitudes. This information is all about planting Little Seeds of doubt. It might not be enough to actually, make you think climate change isn't real, but it might make you question, whether cutting emissions is really worth all the effort to 7% of climate, scientists agree. But they don't tell us that that Sony 75 people. If people are exposed to this blizzard of false information about climate changed, then their right to be informed about the risks of being undermined. Let's break down a viral example, in the 90s, it was the ozone layer will be destroyed in 10 years in the 2008 was a glaciers will all melt in 10 years. Show me the sphere, my green on sis came true but it did result in higher taxes. This is one popular approach. Is sometimes called the anti globalist conspiracy theory. Basically it works by lumping together. All sorts of different Global crises than suggest that they're all basically invention to try and control you. But we know the Glaciers are melting. Thanks to Decades of monitoring through photography satellite imagery and fieldwork. We also know that the thinning ozone was a real thing. The reason we don't talk about it much anymore, it's recovering the Montreal protocol improves. The odds in the risky game, the world has been playing with its own future. It's basically a good news story. You don't hear about it because Humanity did the right thing. Susan Solomon's research helped reveal why the ozone was thinning. I asked her, what it's like to hear. People claim it wasn't real in the first place. It's a little bit like saying Attack. And my doctor put a stent in they told me I had to exercise and you know, now I feel great. So I think that was all just, you know, nonsense to make money for the medical establishment. A reason Canadian report calls it, manufactured doubt misinformation, can create a false sense that the science is still in question when it's not. Whether it's a link between CFCs and the ozone hole smoking and lung cancer. But the fact that human activity does cause climate change information about climate change, leads people, to take it too seriously and to be less willing to support policy actions and basically to say, yeah, well you know, we don't really have a problem. He's talking about this body of evidence climate denial creates polarization a roads trust in science and under Support for cutting emissions. It's gotten bad enough that the UN flag misinformation as limiting climate action. In other words even if you don't fall down the rabbit hole, misinformation can still slow support for the work. That's going to decide all of our futures. Brings you more like a lot more Northwest stick to our goal of limiting, Global heating to 1.5 degrees, C and avoid disaster. It's really no big deal, right? Right. So what's the solution? Well, you can check out questionable claims on websites like PolitiFact or snopes is well and you can double-check with you two claims are legit or not. Well, you might be tempted to comment on videos like this one. It might actually have that kind of effect. You do for wear round or one solution that I've seen some people uses to share a picture of the Bozeman debunking. It's rather than sharing the post itself really. This is a problem that's bigger than you are me. And he's a big picture answer. We are social media companies. What are you doing about climate misinformation? Twitter didn't respond, but meditech talk and YouTube All Dead 2 videos. We flag to take. Talk are no longer on the site. All three companies told us, they use a variety of tools, they'll sometimes label misinformation, they'll sometimes remove it from their platforms, if it violates their policies. And also, sometimes actually Shrunk the Audience that it can reach, Google told us that if YouTube videos outright promote, the climate change, denial will actually block those videos from getting ad Revenue, but it's still an uphill battle or anything. That evokes attention, or capture, his attention is being favoured by the algorithms, the social media be on social media. There are other Solutions like making scientific research easier to access avoiding overhyped news, headlines and calming down toxic partisan. Talk Support, good science and practical Solutions. There is hope that we can actually curb the impacts of climate change. We have done it time and time and time again. And we're already starting to do it. We need to get faster at it. But I'm convinced that will that will solve it. Because I see people caring, I see people perceiving it, the change and I see the Practical Solutions out there. So jealous you said a lot of time coming through misinformation for the story. I'm curious. What's your advice to avoid being tricked? Well, one tactic, I noticed that's really effective is cherry picking. So you'll see the tactic online, where people take a nugget of Truth and then wrap it in a lie to try, and convince you that climate change isn't real. So, you might see a ticktocker say that a specific Glacier isn't receiving as fast as climate change. Scientists had predicted a few decades ago and therefore, they argue, climate change isn't real now. Of course, that's not true, but there's a little bit of Truth are that yes, climate modeling does evolve over time as new data comes in and that's what I would give as advice to people. It's really watch out for that kind of nuance where that nuance and science is manipulated and taking advantage of you. Trying to convince people that cutting carbon emissions isn't worth it and you don't want to fall down that hole.

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