From vibrant corals to white skeletons: climate change and looming existential threats to coral reefs
Coral reefs and their ecosystems serve important roles on Earth – they flourish with biodiversity, providing habitat to 25% of…
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Sea-level rise: to mitigate or adapt? Experts say we need to do both.
Roughly 900 million people lived in low-lying coastal cities and settlements in 2020; a figure that is projected to reach 1 billion by 2050. Is there anything we can do now to reduce sea-level rise and its impacts? Our past actions will already impact sea-levels for thousands of years. But not everything is set in stone. We possess the power to reduce sea-level rise and its impacts over the next century and beyond with our current actions. Some advocate to mitigate the causes, and others to adapt to the consequences. But what do experts say?
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InaccurateSea levels have risen for over 100 years, despite misleading photos shared on social media
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Sea-level rise is not occurring or showing any impacts, based on photographic evidence.
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Farmers’ Protests Weaponized to Spread Climate Misinformation, Report Finds
Farmers’ protests in several European countries have been weaponized to spread false or misleading claims to discredit political action against climate change and fuel deep-seated distrust towards the European Union, according to a report on climate disinformation related to the protests.
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Science Feedback Participates in Project Leveraging AI to Combat Climate Misinformation
FactCRICIS aims to support fact-checkers in identifying and debunking disinformation campaigns related to climate change and other crises, fostering more rapid, impactful and coordinated responses within and across European borders.
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European Fact-Checking Organisations Launch Climate Disinformation Database
European fact-checkers have joined forces to combat climate disinformation with the launch of Climate Facts Europe – a public database and alert system supported by the European Climate Foundation.
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How CO2 warms Earth through the greenhouse effect and why CO2 is not ‘saturated’ in Earth’s atmosphere
There is no doubt about it – climate science can be complex. But sometimes this complexity is mistaken for uncertainty.…
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MisleadingNo evidence for a significant influence of volcanoes or solar variability on recent climate change contrary to Judith Curry’s claims in PragerU video
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Climate scientists disagree about how much warming is associated with our emissions and whether this warming is larger than natural climate variability from the sun and volcanic eruptions
Source: PragerU, Judith Curry, 2024-04-15
