"Time is running out to prevent a climate catastrophe. The summer of
2020, with its devastating wildfires and climate-fueled extreme weather,
is a preview of the world's apocalyptic future — unless decisive steps are taken to reduce carbon emissions. The public’s need for accurate climate change information could not be greater."
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"Scientists and climate advocates, however, have panned Facebook's initiative because it does nothing to address the massive distribution of climate disinformation on Facebook. Further, Facebook's Climate Science Information Center contains no information about the primary reasons the climate crisis exists: polluting companies, policy obstruction, and unchecked climate denial."
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"Facebook’s Climate Science Information Center ignores systemic solutions and emphasizes individual solutions like turning off the lights and buying local produce. Cook calls this approach “disturbing” because it's the same tactic fossil fuel companies have used to delay climate action for years. “Facebook’s new page buys into that framing,” he said. “It pushes an unhelpful narrative that distracts from what is necessary to solve climate change.”
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Marlon Weems @GeekTraderSeptember 7th 2020
1 Retweet1 LikeStone said Facebook “spoke to a number of leading climate science organizations as well as academics in different countries” to inform what was on the page, but declined to say which organizations or academics were involved.
He
added that Facebook is “looking to expand the types of actions featured
and are working with partners on that now.” In the meantime, climate
disinformation continues to spread on Facebook at an alarming rate."
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