Facts vs. misinformation on climate change
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Updated: 26 Oct 2023
A collection of links contrasting facts vs. misinformation on the environment. Links on lithium mining and the sugar industry. Facts to answer the logical fallacies and psychological factors that reinforce and defend denial. Financial interests involved in promoting misinformation.
Cover photo credit: Brussels Times
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Climate denial vs. facts.
Scientific research, reports, sources
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2023: PNAS: Opinion: Why focusing on “climate change denial” is counterproductiveNASA: Climate change evidence2023: CAP: Climate denial in the US Congress, funded by coal, oil and gas industriesCenter for American Progress: A concise, four-point definition of climate denialClimate change denial relies on black-and-white thinking, also called dichotomous and all-or-none thinking.2019: Pew Research: U.S. Public Views on Climate and Energy
Democrats mostly agree the federal government should do more on climate,
|while Republicans differ by ideology, age and genderAUGUST 9, 2023
What the data says about Americans’ views of climate changeBritannica: Who is George SorosUN: Climate change factsUN: Countering disinformation7 ways climate change is affecting daily lifeLogical fallacies, misleading arguments and psychological factors that support denial and bias
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Understanding the psychology of denialPsychological factors: Confirmation bias and backfire effect16 types of logical fallacyPsychological factors in denial: the grip of the comfort zone2022: WaPo: Why do our brains believe lies?Opinion: PostAlley.org: Anthony B. Robinson
on the challenge of balanced reporting on unbalanced,
non-equivalent partisan political activityWikipedia: False balance and false compromiseEffectiviology: False Equivalence: The Problem with Unreasonable ComparisonsPsychology.org: The psychology of climate change denialFalacias lógicas: el hombre de paja o "straw man fallacy"Fuentes .edu en español con ejemplos
de las falacias de lógica o razonamiento
no válido, y como se refutanIt’s Not Me, It’s You: Projection Explained in Human TermsOpinion: PROJECTION AS A POLITICAL WEAPON
by Chris Bell and Gary Senecal.
Principles of projection in the political language of Donald TrumpProjection in Politicians' Perceptions of Public Opinion. How politicians make assumptions about bias in the electorateProjection, otherization, polarization and exaggeration of differencesConfirmation Bias In Psychology: Definition & ExamplesThe Dangers of "Reason" (Challenges of consensus)Opinion piece: Public distrust in institutions resulted from business prioritizing profits over service,
and political institutions that represent wealth and business interests over public interestEditorial cartoon: false balanceFinancial conflicts of interest behind denialism.
Following the trail of money
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2023: CAP: Climate denial in the US Congress, funded by coal, oil and gas industries (copy)2023: The Guardian: Dark money groups push election denialism on US state officials (copy)Open Secrets: Contributions to Congress by oil, gas, coal industryRussia's pro-war influencers generate big ad revenues from their social media coverage of the conflictThe Hill: New York City’s pension funds sue Fox over election falsehoodsAnnual Review of Political Science: The Electoral Consequences of CorruptionHow Fossil Fuel Donors Shaped the Anti-Climate Agenda of a Powerful Congressional CommitteeCOUNTER-POINT OPINION/ANALYSIS. Lobbying and conservative political action:
How Big Oil Lost Control of Its Climate Misinformation MachineInformation graphics
Lithium mining
Communities resist traditional open-pit mines,
land and water use, permanent contamination.
Salton Sea mine offers cleaner mining
due to its unique geological characteristics.
Events
Mixed prospects for lithium deposits in California's Salton SeaBackground geological information on the Salton SeaCNBC: Warren Buffet firm invests in mine. The Salton Sea could produce the world’s greenest lithiumCNBC: How the U.S. fell behind in lithium productionCNBC: Permits and transparency problems slow NC lithium mining project.
Residents do not want mining around their homesNorth Carolina mining project hits roadblocks due to community resistance, and arsenic mining byproductsEPA pdf: Basic information about lithium and lithium batteriesAP: Nevada Lawsuit: "contaminated water could extend for 1 mile around mine for 300 years"
contesting validity of Bureau of Land Management reviewNature: How to make lithium extraction cleaner, faster and cheaper — in six steps
Subscription requiredSugar industry, crop burning, water and fertilizer runoff
and its environmental impact
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The U.S. sugar industry: Names to knowSun-Sentinel: Water pollution and agriculture runoff.
To protect Florida’s waterways, reform the U.S. sugar programFoodprint: What You Need to Know About Sugarcane BurningProPublica: Article and interactive map. The Smoke Comes Every Year.
Sugar Companies Say the Air Is Safe.WUSF, WLRN: Particle pollution from sugar cane burning
can cross the blood brain barrier and lead to brain inflammation.NIH: Study in rodents found acute inflammation in tracheal tissue, edema in lungs,Florida Museum: Sugarcane Burning in FloridaProPublica: Brazil harvests cane profitably without burningNASA: images: Smoking Sugar Fields in South Florida2021: Summary: Faulty smoke monitoring and "averaging" allows industry to evade EPA air quality compliance2001: Cane burning impact on wildlife.
Orlando Sentinel: Motorcyclist discovers
wild rabbits burned in cane fieldBaltimore Sun: PETA animal rights group
protests annual rabbit hunt coinciding with sugar cane burnUS Sugar spokesperson Judy Sanchez defends
cane burn and discounts PETA concerns over burned rabbits.
..."full of vermin"Sun Sentinel/Cato Institute: Editorial:
Sugar industry runoff pollutes FL waters.
Industry supported by US gov quotas and
price supportsEPA: Water pollution and agriculture runoff.
Clean Water and the Cane Sugar Industry pdfWTSP (Tampa): Water pollution and agriculture runoff.
What does Big Sugar have to do with Florida's red tide?Palm Beach Post: Sugar cane burn season
still blankets Glades with smoke after FSU
study shows it kills people"Regulatory capture": former Palm Beach county air quality official,
now consultant to US Sugar, discounts FSU study as "biased",
defends cane burns and air quality.FSU researchers find link between health outcomes
and smoke from sugarcane fires
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