Re:Quarter of all tweets about climate change produced by bots
by travisporter on Friday February 21, 2020 @12:02PM
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It's actualy not beyond you, you're zoomed in. If you zoom out, you can see that people straight up ignore or deny any link between human activity and climate change/CO2/ozone.
Re:Quarter of all tweets about climate change produced by bots
by bronipstid on Sunday February 23, 2020 @12:17AM
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We have all been told to accept a lower standard of living because of climate change. Deniers are just ordinary people who noticed that people telling us this most loudly have abjectly refused to accept a lower standard of living themselves. Many even fly to climate conventions on private jets. So the idea that it's all fake is a much simpler and more compelling reason to ordinary people than "the sky really is falling and you need to learn to like eating bugs".
Meaningless without a baseline percentage of all tweets that are fake.
> “More often than not, they turn out to have all the fingerprints of bots,” he said. “The more denialist trolls are out there, the more likely people will think that there is a diversity of opinion and hence will weaken their support for climate science.
The article doesn't discuss what any of these fingerprints are.
> Thomas Marlow, a PhD candidate at Brown who led the study, said the research came about as he and his colleagues are “always kind of wondering why there’s persistent levels of denial about something that the science is more or less settled on”.
How any self-styled scientist can claim something a complex as the earth's atmospheric behavior is "settled" is beyond me.
Just recently, a study appeared in a peer-reviewed journal by a non-"denialist" group regarding the outsized effect of CFCs on polar warming:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00108-2