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Climate scientists flee Twitter [to Mastodon] as hostility surges

EDIT: I didn’t notice in the original post, the article is from 2023

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/19707239

Researchers have documented an explosion of hate and misinformation on Twitter since the Tesla billionaire took over in October 2022 – and now experts say communicating about climate science on the social network on which many of them rely is getting harder.

Policies aimed at curbing the deadly effects of climate change are accelerating, prompting a rise in what experts identify as organised resistance by opponents of climate reform.

Peter Gleick, a climate and water specialist with nearly 99,000 followers, announced on May 21 he would no longer post on the platform because it was amplifying racism and sexism.

While he is accustomed to “offensive, personal, ad hominem attacks, up to and including direct physical threats”, he told AFP, “in the past few months, since the takeover and changes at Twitter, the amount, vituperativeness, and intensity of abuse has skyrocketed”.

psycho_driver ,

The dumb masses always eventually follow the smart people. Reddit was full of mostly smart people in the beginning, if you can believe that.

andros_rex ,

The Franklin Standards need to be on everyone’s radar. They don’t want your kids to learn about climate change.

Explain how and why Earth’s climate changes over time.

Climate changes continually at all time scales and Earth’s climate has never remained constant.

The Earth’s climate has varied greatly between glacial advances and retreats that correlate with cyclical oscillations in Earth’s orbit around the Sun (Milankovitch Cycles, precession).

In addition to being affected by the climate, the biosphere also has a significant effect on the climate, including self-regulation and resiliency (carbon-oxygen cycle, hydrological cycle).

Humans are just one of the many influences on Earth’s climate (urban heat island effect, wetland drainage, deforestation, agriculture).

Computer models of climate are simplified simulations of the real world, and make prognostications that are inherently uncertain.

Global weather forecast models (short term) and climate models (long term) are quite different in their design, their strengths, weaknesses, value, limitations, and uncertainties.

The wording is subtle, but you can see how they are attacking the idea of anthropogenic climate change. (There’s similar fuckery with evolution and some subtle anti-trans stuff.) Oil and gas companies have a lot of money and can afford a lot of propaganda. No states have adopted these standards yet - we think Florida and Texas will go first, then Oklahoma will follow. But this information warfare.

BallsandBayonets ,

Humans are just one of the many influences on Earth’s climate

Proceeds to list a bunch of other things that are the fault of humans.

notsofunnycomment ,
@notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz avatar

Thanks for pointing this out. The level of misguidedness is painful.

Teppichbrand ,

Never understood why nobody calls him an “american oligarch”

queue ,
@queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Oligarchs are only for the rich outside of the Thirteen Eyes. American oligarchs are called lobbyists and job creators.

azertyfun ,

I mean, he’s actively supporting the opposition (Trump) right now. Were Trump to win then he’d certainly be in a very good position within Trump’s desired oligarchy. Until then he’s just a very rich asshole whose main major concrete political power comes from his ownership of Twitter and (largely artificial) audience. If anything his support of Trump kneecaps him in his ability to run his businesses as the Biden and hypothetical Harris administrations are not as likely to let him keep getting away with all the blatantly illegal shit he keeps doing.

Michael Bloomberg OTOH fits the term pretty well, as he’s a very major donor to the DNC and that certainly makes him very close to the ear of the president and policy decisions.

MonkderVierte ,

That was a year ago.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Reality: you can stop fascism by deleting the app

Everyone: doesn’t

Siegfried ,

Oh, i didnt know this was like IT. i’ll tell my russians friends just to ignore putin’s regime

Eximius ,

If by ignore, you mean stop paying taxes and working in any capacity for government in one go, yes would work. The only fear is being singled out, if more than 0.5% of the people do it, army wont even have the guts to get tanks out, they will join.

Siegfried ,

Touché

Venezuela has ~70% of the people against the regime, (nearly 90% counting the 5M that were not allowed to vote) and the needle isn’t even moving.

And in Russia being “singled out” is apparently a national tradition.

Sorry, I may be over pessimistic today.

tourist ,
@tourist@lemmy.world avatar

Pardon my ignorance. I may have a mild brain injury.

Could you perhaps rephrase?

I’m not sure if I understood what you said.

Siegfried ,

In IT (the movie and, i presume, also in the book) ::: spoiler spoiler The kids realize that IT feeds on attention and that the only way to fight it is by ignoring it :::

Imo, shitter (X) is a cesspool as it is now, but I dont believe that leaving it to the hordes is a solution to anything. We need a better approach to deal with this people.

jaggedrobotpubes ,

If we can’t abandon Obvious Disaster Twitter we definitely can’t abandon the obvious disaster that is everything we think of as normal that’s driving civilization off a cliff.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Considering Meta is doubling down on disinformation, more people should go to Mastodon and Bsky over Threads or Twitter.

Moah ,
@Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Is blue sky really ok? Considering who started it…

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

i don’t think jack funded it he was just an original board member; but he left the board a month or two ago.

ripcord ,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, it seems pretty good.

Allonzee , (edited )

I just wish there were a way to preserve these records in a format with enough longevity to survive until the next sapient species evolves after we destroy ourselves and the human habitability of the planet for a couple million years.

They could use the warning against indulging greed and willful ignorance, and we deserve to have others laughing at our species’ expense through time. We inherited paradise just to set it on fire eyes wide open. It’s an extremely low bar, but I hope the next global apex predator chooses to do better.

BallsandBayonets ,

We’re currently rhyming with history from less than 100 years ago (the rise of fascism), I don’t think having a warning is enough to prevent it from happening again.

bappity ,
@bappity@lemmy.world avatar

You can find utterly vile replies from blue checks on that site now, even on the most heavenly, innocent, morally correct tweet. It’s insane.

fiend_unpleasant ,

I think this is going to happen more and more. As the delta semi-morons continue to erode civilization we are just going to "take our ball and go home" so to speak. We can science, tech, and culture around them and they will eventually be left out in their echo chamber desert fighting each other over the last minions meme scraps.

gcheliotis ,

Among the sad stories about climate scientists having to deal with misinformation and abuse on the regular, suddenly, a unicorn: a statement purportedly by Musk that I wholeheartedly agree with:

Musk wrote in January: “People on the right should see more ‘left-wing’ stuff and people on the left should see more ‘right-wing’ stuff. But you can just block it if you want to stay in an echo chamber.”

Of course with the average Xitter post becoming ever more toxic, most people that have anything of value to add will probably leave sooner or later, whether lefties or righties or whatever.

madjo ,

When I still used Twitter, I followed people and that was the only content I wanted to read. I didn’t care about content from people I wasn’t following.

That’s why I’m now on Masto. No algorithm to decide that I should also get the very much not valuable opinions of xXx_nOnwoke_1488 in my timeline.

fossilesque ,

nathanlesage.github.io/academics-on-mastodon/

Churbleyimyam ,

That’s great news. Looking forward to having more climate scientists on Mastodon.

NineMileTower ,

Hell, I would like to have ANYONE on Mastodon. It feels so dead.

madjo ,

Start following hashtags of things you’re interested in. And interact with people in those threads.

daniskarma ,

Does it?

My Mastodon feed is more alive than my twitter feed used to be years before its demise. And also in my native language, if I were to follow english speaking people I’d be overwhelmed.

The trick is not to rely to much on the instance local feed and start following people from every instance.

Wiz ,

Yes, and…

You can follow (and use) hashtags of topics you like.

Default_Defect ,
@Default_Defect@midwest.social avatar

Every time I give it another shot and look for things and people to follow, I find nothing.

vegeta ,

4chan—>8chan—>Xchan?

SlopppyEngineer ,

Light speed -> ridiculous speed -> ludicrous speed

“They’ve gone to plaid!”

don ,

Ah Twitter. Nearing its evolution as the internet’s premier perpetually-full septic tank.

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